Kim Jong-Un reported to have $4-5 billion in slush fund accounts designed to elude sanctions

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Kim Jong-Un reported to have $4-5 billion in slush fund accounts designed to elude sanctions

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has access to about $4-5 billion in slush funds stashed away in hundreds of overseas bank accounts in Austria, China, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland, according to a news report here. South Korea and the U.S. authorities have been tracking […]

N. Korea takes aim, literally, at S. Korean media offices

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N. Korea takes aim, literally, at S. Korean media offices

Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com North Korea said its military has entered the map coordinates of certain conservative South Korean media offices and threatened to strike them for insulting its new ruler Kim Jong-Un. The General Staff of the [North] Korean People’s Army said its troops have targeted the Seoul headquarters of the Chosun Ilbo, the […]