China installs new ambassador in North Korea, one of few in the country

The People’s Republic of China has assigned a new ambassador to North Korea.  Ambassador Wang Yajun reportedly arrived in North Korea on Monday to begin his term of office in Pyongyang. China is among a small group of North Korean allies with fully …

Book review: When ideology and politics trump a rational North Korea policy

While North Korea’s nuclear scientists were hard at work, carefully pushing the limits at the Yongbyon research facility, the Bush administration was twisting intelligence reports and finding non-existent weapons in Iraq as a pretext for invasion, war and …

UN human rights report calls for North Korea to end forced disappearances

The UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Monday released a report on the impact of forced disappearance and abductions in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on victims and their families. Within the …

Defectors ‘still dream about North Korea’, regret fleeing as they die lonely deaths in wealthy South

North Korea reveals new nuclear warheads as US carrier strike group docks in South Korea

North Korea has revealed new, smaller nuclear warheads on Tuesday as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group docked in South Korea.  The unveiling of the warheads, called Hwasan-31s, show potential progress by the North in creating warheads that are strong, …

Kim calls for ramping up North Korea’s ‘weapon-grade nuclear material’

Leader Kim Jong Un called for North Korea to expand production of “weapon-grade nuclear materials”, state media said Tuesday, as Pyongyang unveiled what appeared to be a new, smaller tactical nuclear warhead. Kim was shown in state media images surrounded …

US-Japan interoperability deters China and North Korea

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force’s (JMSDF) Hyuga-class destroyer (DDG) has conducted a bilateral maritime exercise with the United States Navy’s (USN) Nimitz-class carrier strike group (NCST) to enhance interoperability between the two naval forces …

China’s new ambassador to North Korea takes up post

North Korea sparks WW3 fears as Kim orders nuclear weapons to be ready 'anytime'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told the country's experts to increase it's production of nuclear material for bombs to put on his increasing range of weapons. The comments come amid soaring tensions, North Korean missile launches and joint war …

North Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot

In the cryptocurrency ecosystem, coins have a story, tracked in the unchangeable blockchains underpinning their economy. The only exception, in some sense, is cryptocurrency that's been freshly generated by its owner's computational power. So it …