Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea conducted another nuclear test after recognizing how Iran was “gaming the system” in the nuclear deal pushed by U.S. President Barack Obama, an analyst said. The Kim Jong-Un regime is continuing a tradition of information- and technology-sharing between North Korea and Iran and using it to “outwit” the U.S. and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com More than a dozen primitive wooden “ghost ships” found drifting in Japanese waters are probably North Korean fishing vessels, officials said. The Japanese coast guard found four badly decomposed bodies on a vessel discovered on Dec. 6. The coast guard said a total of 25 bodies have been found on the ghost […]
Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea has executed three women who were accused of making copies of and distributing a South Korean television show. The women, who resided near Hyesan University of the Arts in the northern Ryanggang Province, were arrested for recording a South Korean TV drama which is based on the true story of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea’s Atomic Energy Institute (AEI) confirmed on Sept. 15 that Pyongyang has restarted the nuclear reactor that is its main source of weapons-grade plutonium. The confirmation by the AEI came after the leader of Pyongyang’s national space agency hinted at a possible satellite rocket launch next month. Analysts said the two […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Everybody’s gone surfin’ – surfin’ PRK? With the country’s tourism industry sinking drastically, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has given permission for a surfing camp to be held on the east coast. Tourism fell by 40 percent last year. For $2,777.04 (1,800 British pounds) surfers not only get to attend the camp but […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Video footage smuggled out of North Korea shows an open air public trial of two men who are condemned to a labor camp for a “grave criminal act” which includes watching an American film. The video, filmed secretly in September 2013, shows the two accused men, aged 30 and 27, standing in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea has deployed 70 percent of its submarine force and doubled its artillery strength near the South Korean border since Aug. 21, according to Seoul’s defense ministry. The two Koreas continued talks on Aug. 23 to end tensions that began with North Korea firing a rocket into the South and Seoul […]
Special to WorldTribune.com As North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un declared on Aug. 21 that Pyongyang was in a “quasi-state of war,” U.S. troops were seen mobilizing at a South Korean border town. “The Korean People’s Army (KPA) front-line large combined units entered into a wartime state all at once, fully armed to launch surprise operations, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The United States proved with the recently-concluded Iran nuclear agreement that it is willing and able to be flexible on such talks, including with North Korea, a U.S. envoy said. During a visit to Seoul, South Korea on July 27, Sydney Seiler, special envoy for the now-defunct six-party talks on ending the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com EastAsiaIntel.com Two months after South Korea’s intelligence agency tellingly disclosed the shocking execution of Kim Jong-Un’s defense chief Vice Marshal Hyon Yong-Chol by close-range anti-aircraft gun fire, Pyongyang officially dispelled the last thread of doubts about the seemingly unbelievable story. On July 11, the DPRK’s army Gen. Pak Yong-Sik was officially mentioned […]