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North Korea's Former SPA Chairman Dies AsiaToday By Park Young-hoon = Choe Tae-bok, who served as chairman of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, has died at the age of 94. According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by secretaries of the Party's Central Committee, visited his residence early in the day to express condolences and deliver harmony... -
North Korean Teenagers Sentenced to 12 Years of Hard Labor for Watching K-Drama A video has emerged of North Korea sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years in labor for watching a South Korean drama. The message is that South Korean culture is spreading in North Korea and they are ruining their future. This is the first time the punishment for watching South Korean entertainment has been increased to the death penalty... -
North Korea's Underwater Nuclear Test Raises Tensions Amidst U.S.-Japan-South Korea Naval Drills North Korea claims to have tested an underwater nuclear weapons system in response to the US, South Korea, and Japan naval drills. South Korea, the United States, and Japan held the largest joint naval drills in the high seas south of Jeju Island, with nine warships participating... -
South Korea 5th Place in Global Military Strength South Korea ranked fifth in military power according to the 2024 Global Firepower Report. North Korea, on the other hand, dropped to 36th place... -
SNU Research Team Calls for 8,000 Won Cigarette Price to Achieve Health Goals Raising the price of cigarettes, or increasing it by 10% per year, could reduce male smoking rates by 25% by 2030, according to a new study. This is known to be the most effective policy. -
Opposition Lawmaker Dragged Out of Ceremony by President's Bodyguards The progressive Jinbo Party of Korea strongly condemned the incident in which lawmaker Kang Sung-hee was dragged by the presidential bodyguards and promised a response, saying the president should apologize and reprimand those responsible... -
The U.S. Will Keenly Eye North Korea's Space Warfare Capabilities In response to North Korea's launch of a military reconnaissance satellite, the U.S. Defense Department said it is keeping a keen eye on Pyongyang's warfare capabilities. North Korea plans to launch three more military reconnaissance satellites this year... -
196 North Koreans Escape to South Korea in 2023 女164명-男32명...Most stayed in third countries for long periods of time The number of North Korean defectors who entered South Korea last year totaled 196... -
Kim Jong-un Signals War Intentions: Different Era from the Korean War Despite the analysis that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is dangerous, Tae Young Ho argues that it is too much. He said that the relationship between North and South Korea is different from the time of the Korean War, and that comparisons are excessive because there is the ROK-U.S. Alliance and the U.S. Forces Korea... -
Kim Jong-un's 'Enemy Country' Statement Raises Concerns AsiaToday Reporter Park Young-hoon = The government said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's designation of the Republic of Korea as the "No. 1 hostile country" is due to "anxiety over the country's absorption into a liberal democratic system. -
Kim Jong-un Threatens War Again Declaring South Korea as Permanent Enemy North Korea decides to abolish the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the National Economic Cooperation Organization, and the Kumgangsan International Tourism Organization. Kim Jong-un declares the DPRK to be the main enemy and orders the constitution to reflect annexation in case of war. Accelerated cleanup of inter-Korean organizations, emphasizing military confrontation framing. Suspended direct phone lines and hotlines between the two Koreas... -
Train Accident in North Korea's Results Over 400 Deaths More than 400 people were killed in a passenger train derailment in Dancheon, South Hamgyong Province. The train derailed due to aging railroad tracks and power shortages. Executives on the upper level of the train survived, but all of the passenger cars crashed, killing most of them. -
Naval Forces Unite Against North Korea: Joint Anti-Submarine Drills Commence The South Korean Navy is participating in an airborne anti-submarine warfare exercise with the United States, Japan, Australia, and India to prepare for underwater threats from North Korea. The drills, which use P-3 maritime patrol aircraft to track submarines and share information, are analyzed to counter North Korea's submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) capabilities... -
Putin Meets North Korean Minister Choe: Will He Accept Kim Jong Un's Invitation? AsiaToday By Jangwon Lee = Russian President Vladimir Putin met with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hee at the Kremlin in Moscow on Saturday (local time), Russian media reported... -
South Korean Coast Guard Caught Smuggling 100kg of Cocaine AsiaToday Reporter Cho Young-dol =The Namhae Regional Coast Guard seized and confiscated about 100 kilograms of a substance suspected to be cocaine from a domestic cargo ship A (70,000-ton class) docked at Busan New Port at around 3:35 p.m. on the 15th... -
Government Imposes Sanctions on 11 North Korean Ships After 8 Years Due to Nuclear and Missile Support The South Korean government has designated 11 North Korean ships for independent sanctions. The sanctions, the first since 2016, targeted the ships for violations such as bringing refined oil into North Korean ports and smuggling coal... -
North Korea's New Weapons for Civil Defense Reaffirming 'two-strike capability' North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is likely to focus on strengthening surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities and increasing naval power North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his line of 'strengthening self-defense' at the Supreme People's Assembly held on the 15th of this month, and reiterated the modernization of armaments... -
Kim Jong-un's Non-stop War Threats AsiaToday Reporter Park Young-hoon = Inter-Korean relations have reached a crisis point as North Korea has turned South Korea into a "hostile belligerent. -
Kim Jong-un Calls South Korea 'Permanent Enemy' Wanting to Eliminate 'Peaceful Reunification' North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said it was important for the constitution to reflect "the issue of fully occupying, pacifying and restoring the Republic of Korea and incorporating it into the territory of the republic in case of war." -
Is North Korea Truly Determined for War? North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has repeatedly stated that the South is the most hostile country in his country's constitution and that he will not avoid war, but the prospect of an actual all-out war, such as a second Korean War, has been raised...
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