Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, EastAsiaIntel.com SEOUL — North Korea has unleashed a new salvo of threats to conduct nuclear tests and other provocations as part of a furious response to a landmark U.N. resolution on the regime’s human rights violations. The nonbinding resolution by the U.N.’s third committee urged the Security Council to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, EastAsiaIntel.com SEOUL — High-end U.S. and South Korean smartphones are penetrating North Korea, contributing to new and rapid information flows in the tightly-controlled society that could threaten the decades-long dictatorships, according to sources and reports here. U.S. Apple Inc.’s iconic iPhone and South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, EastAsiaIntel.com SEOUL — A secret North Korean military document contains reports of troops leaving their barracks without permission, commandeering trains to forage for food and other evidence of sharply relaxed military disciplines under Kim Jong-Un’s rule. Some deserters were travelling to markets to earn money and seek for foods, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is being treated at Pyongyang’s royal clinic for his brain- and blood vessels-related disease which affects his hands and legs, a source here said. Kim Yo-Jong, the leader’s younger sister who serves as his personal secretary, convened an urgent meeting of senior leaders […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — Pyongyang’s “Department 54” was integral to North Korea’s struggle to acquire foreign currency and was at the center of the recent bloody purges, officials and analysts here said. They added that another power struggle is likely shortly over who will control the agency which runs projects like coal […]