North Korea denies cyber attacks on South Korea officials
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Sunday denied that it conducted cyber attacks against officials from rival South Korea, calling the South's accusation that it did so a "fabrication".South Korea's spy...
View ArticleNorth Korea claims it could wipe out Manhattan with a hydrogen bomb
SEOUL — North Korea claimed Sunday that it could wipe out Manhattan by sending a hydrogen bomb on a ballistic missile to the heart of New York, the latest in a string of brazen threats.Although there...
View ArticleUS: North Korea lost one of its submarines and we guess it just sank
A North Korean submarine has gone missing at sea and is presumed to have sunk, according to reports from the US and South Korea.The vessel had reportedly been operating off the North Korean coast...
View ArticleThat one time when Kim Jong Un manned a Soviet submarine that's been obsolete...
The following post was originally published on June 14, 2015. We are republishing after news that North Korea lost one of its submarines at sea.The admirals of the Soviet Union declared North Korea’s...
View ArticleIncredible photos from the military exercise that is North Korea's worst...
Operation Foal Eagle 2016, which runs from March 7 to April 30, is a massive joint US-South Korean military exercise held in North Korea's backyard.The operation runs contemporaneously as another US...
View ArticleThe US is staging a massive military exercise in North Korea’s backyard
The armed forces of the US and South Korea began their annual military exercise known as Operation Foal Eagle. Over the weekend, soldiers from the two countries, joined by personnel from Australia and...
View ArticleKCNA: North Korea says it will conduct a nuclear warhead test soon
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the official KCNA...
View ArticleAmerican student sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier, who was arrested while visiting the country, to 15 years of hard labor on Wednesday for crimes against the...
View ArticleHow I discovered that smoking weed is legal in North Korea
The discovery came during my recent tour of Rason in North Korea, at the time of the 2013 Korean Crisis. The DPRK was - potentially - poised on the brink of nuclear war with the South, with Japan, the...
View ArticleThe American student jailed in North Korea allegedly tried to steal a banner...
The U.S. student sentenced to 15 years of hard labor by North Korea's supreme court was convicted for trying to steal a banner invoking former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, state media footage of...
View ArticleNorth Korea is getting more and more aggressive
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Friday that flew about 800 km (500 miles) off its east coast into the sea, South Korea's military said, days after fresh U.S. sanctions were...
View ArticleNorth Korea keeps firing ballistic missiles
North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile which flew about 800 km (500 miles) before hitting the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said on Friday, as the isolated state stepped up...
View ArticleNorth Korea releases video that it says shows the crime that led an American...
North Korea has released a grainy video that it claims shows American student Otto Warmbler attempting to steal a propaganda banner from a hotel – an act which saw him being handed 15 years hard...
View Article'They are intentionally starved and worked to death': The horrific conditions...
The distraught pleadings of the American college student sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in a prison in North Korea for “crimes against the state” are sobering when considering the details of what...
View ArticleNorth Korea has fired 5 short-range projectiles into the sea
North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, amid heightened tension over the isolated country's nuclear and rocket...
View ArticleNorth Korea's tone toward South Korea is getting increasingly belligerent
SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea, locked for weeks in exchanges of angry rhetoric and heightened military readiness, traded more threats on Friday, with Pyongyang saying its military had trained...
View ArticleNorth Korea says a detained Korean-American man has confessed to stealing...
SEOUL — A Korean-American man detained in North Korea has confessed to stealing military secrets and plotting subversion with South Koreans, the North's official news agency and foreign media reported...
View ArticleAre North Koreans fighting in Syria? It's not as far-fetched as it sounds
This week, representatives of Western-backed Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva told Russian state media that President Bashar al-Assad had a surprising new ally on the Syrian battlefield: militia...
View ArticleHere's a look at North Korea's most aggressive threats, claims and weapons...
Day after day, North Korea boasts of new weapons programs developments and unleashes fiery threats to attack rivals South Korea and the United States.On Friday, for example, the North's state media...
View ArticleNorth Korean propaganda video depicts imagined submarine attack on Washington
North Korea released a new propaganda video Saturday titled "Last Chance", showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames.The...
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