Posts Tagged ‘PYONGYANG’

Russian Airlines To Launch Regular Flights To Pyongyang For First Time

North Korea has for decades been notorious for being among the most isolated countries in the world, and is for this reason for this reason often called the “hermit kingdom”.  A mere two airlines regularly fly in and out of Pyongyang Airport: North Korea’s own national carrier Air Koryo and the much larger Air China […]

Russian Mystery Plane That Landed In Pyongyang Making Washington Nervous

A Russian ‘mystery plane’ spotted in North Korea is making Washington nervous, after Kim Jong Un visited Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin this moth. The two leaders, deemed ‘rogue’ actors by the West, are believed to have discussed and possibly inked a weapons deal at a moment Moscow needs more ammunition for military operations in Ukraine. […]

Moscow and Pyongyang are Uniting

Lyuba Lulko  08.09.2023 15:07 USA will not be able to stop Moscow and Pyongyang World » Asia The United States is concerned about the consequences of the Russia-DPRK summit. Washington has no leverage when it comes to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, and South Korea is aware of that. Photo: http:// onecoreanetwork.blogspot.ru USA’s paranoid reaction at Russia-North Korea summit According […]

Tension mounts on North Korean peninsula as Pyongyang fires second ballistic missile

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday, Pyongyang’s second launch in 48 hours as Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister warned of turning the Pacific into a “firing range”, Seoul says. South Korea’s military said they had detected the launch of “two short-range ballistic missiles fired from Sukchon areas in South Pyongan province between […]

The case of Virgil Griffith and other affairs of “the accomplices of the Pyongyang hackers”

On April 12, 2022, the Southern District Court of New York sentenced American programmer and former Ethereum cryptocurrency developer Virgil Griffith to 5 years and 3 months in prison for visiting DPRK and giving a lecture on cryptocurrency technologies. He initially received 20 years in prison, but his sentence was reduced after he pleaded guilty […]

On Why Foreign Diplomats Flee Pyongyang

First, on March 18, 2021, NK News reported that there were no foreign UN or international NGO workers left in North Korea. About two dozen citizens of the Czech Republic, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Vietnam, as well as two employees of the World Food Program (WFP), left the country. They left Pyongyang for China. And on […]

Kim Jong-un’s sister threatens South Korean FM for doubting Pyongyang’s zero cases of Covid-19

Kim Yo-jong has lashed out at South Korea’s top diplomat for daring to doubt Pyongyang’s zero cases of Covid-19, warning the “reckless remarks” could further damage the strained relations between the two countries. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s influential sister has not made any statements or public appearances for some time, triggering reports of her […]

NORTH KOREA THREATENS TO CALL OFF PYONGYANG-WASHINGTON SUMMIT, SLAMS U.S APPROACH

16.05.2018 South front North Korea would reconsider its participation in the historical Pyongyang-Washington summit in Singapore planned for June 12, the country’s state-run news agency KCNA reported on May 16. According to a press statement of North Korean First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un stated that its […]

US family sues Pyongyang for torturing son to death despite lack of evidence

The parents of Otto Warmbier have sued North Korea on the day the key peninsular summit, accusing the nation of torturing their son to death. Earlier medical reports said no signs of torture were found during autopsy. Otto Warmbier was arrested during a tourist trip to North Korea in December 2015 and […]

Kim Jong-un invites South’s leader Moon at the "earliest date" possible to Pyongyang in personal letter delivered by sister

     North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang in a personal letter delivered by Kim’s sister, Seoul has said. Kim’s younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, handed the letter over at a rare meeting with Moon on Saturday. She said that brother asked Moon to visit the North’s capital at […]

US will have to accept N Korea’s nuclear status – Pyongyang

“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [DPRK] is not planning to hold talks on nuclear weapons and the US has to get along with the DPRK’s nuclear status,” Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American Department of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said, speaking at the 2017 Non-proliferation Conference in Moscow. According to Choe, North Korea’s […]

Pyongyang threatens ‘unimaginable strike’ as US & S. Korea hold drills in region

On Monday, the American and South Korean Navies began massive joint drills in the waters off the Korean Peninsula. Nuclear war may break out any moment, says N. Korean UN envoy The maneuvers, dubbed Maritime Counter Special Operations Forces Exercise (MCSOFEX), involve fighter jets, helicopters and 40 naval ships and submarines from both countries, including […]

‘Pyongyang will fear us more’: Seoul wants to transfer wartime army command from US

     South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called for the long-delayed transfer of its wartime operational control (OPCON) from the Pentagon to be sped up, and says the country must develop its own military capacity to “punish” North Korea’s “provocations.” “North Korea will fear us more and the people will have more faith in our […]

Trump is conflating Pyongyang with Tehran. The results could be catastrophic

The Guardian | Trita Parsi: We’re on our way towards a new cold war with Iran or, even worse, a military confrontation. Will anyone stop Trump? President Donald Trump took a page out of the George W Bush playbook at his UN address on Tuesday. To justify confrontation with Iran, conflate it with Pyongyang. To justify confrontation […]

Iran: Rumors on Alleged Cooperation between Tehran, Pyongyang “Rash”

September 11, 2017 Iran dismissed on Monday rumors on alleged cooperation between Tehran and Pyongyang, stressing that such reports are “rash and far from reality.” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi slammed such rumors, stressing that the Islamic Republic’s position on the use of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction is completely clear. “North […]

Eva Bartlett in North Korea: ‘Yes, People Exist in Pyongyang’

A busy public square in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo: Eva Bartlett) Eva Bartlett “A common comment I’ve gotten on the fraction of photos/videos I’ve posted from North Korea (as I continue to sift through hundreds of them) is the lack of people on the streets. Bearing in mind that I haven’t yet posted videos and […]

Tokyo and Seoul seek ‘maximum pressure’ after UNSC condemns Pyongyang’s ‘outrageous’ missile test

     Japan’s prime minister and South Korea’s president have agreed to ramp up pressure on Pyongyang “to the maximum,” seeking tougher sanctions after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a statement condemning North Korea’s latest missile test. In a phone call Wednesday morning, Shinzo Abe and Moon Jae-in discussed their neighbor’s “violent conduct” and agreed […]

N. Korea ponders striking US base in Guam after Trump threatens Pyongyang with ‘fire & fury’

Denouncing the flyover by the US bombers as an “actual nuclear drill” that is “driving the regional situation to an extreme pitch,” a North Korean military spokesman said in a statement released on Wednesday by KCNA news agency that Pyongyang is “carefully examining the operation plan for making an enveloping fire at the areas around Guam […]

US to Act Alone on North Korea. Strangle Pyongyang Economically

Dennis Rodman lands in Pyongyang on good will mission

Rodman first went to North Korea in 2013 to participate in a series of exhibition basketball games. Rodman spoke of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un as a “friend for life” after the two first met and encouraged then US President Obama to hold a phone call with Kim citing their mutual love of basketball. […]

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