North Korea: Kim Jong-un’s Aunt Appears Alive After Six Years of Media Saying He Killed Her

There was, as there usually is when it comes to coverage of North Korea, little self-reflection as to how and why the media had reported fake news for six years.

Alan Macleod
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Kim Kyong-hui

It’s well past Halloween, but people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are rising from the dead (again). That is according to our media, who have for six years been claiming Kim Kyong-hui, the aunt of current ruler Kim Jong-un and daughter of the father of the nation Kim Il-sung, was dead, only for her to be spotted beside her nephew

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Media: Zombie Sightings, Like Unicorns, Are a Frequent Occurrence in North Korea

The State Department may want to worry less about North Korea’s nuclear production and more about its apparent advanced necromancy program, because Kim Hyok-chol is far from the only person executed in the country still walking around and conducting business as usual.

Alexander Rubinstein
بواسطة Alexander Rubinstein
North Korea Feature photo

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA -- If the mainstream media is to be believed, North Korea is a land full of prison camps, zombies and unicorns. On Friday, the right-wing South Korean Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that an anonymous source had informed them that Kim Yong Chol, the country’s envoy to the U.S., had been sent to a labor camp over the failure

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North Korea Pleads for Food Aid as Trump Sanctions Noose Tightens

As much as Trump likes to rail against the failed policies of his predecessor, he seems to be mimicking them, using North Korea’s food shortages as leverage to force the country to denuclearize, a move that DPRK believes would bring about only a swifter death.

Alexander Rubinstein
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North Korea | Food

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA -- A leaked diplomatic memo reveals that the North Korean government is lobbying its allies for assistance in dealing with an “urgent” food shortage crisis needed to stave off hunger this month. But with U.S. and international sanctions in play, delivery of humanitarian aid is risky business. A diplomatic memo obtained by

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Talks Falter As Trump Refuses North Korea’s Call for Sanctions Relief

Even armchair observers probably understood long before the Hanoi summit had even been scheduled that the gulf between the American and North Korean positions on denuclearization was probably too wide to overcome (after nearly a year of talks, the two sides are no closer to a deal). Yet, President Trump had apparently hoped that the […]

ZeroHedge.com
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Donald Trump | Kim Jong Un

Even armchair observers probably understood long before the Hanoi summit had even been scheduled that the gulf between the American and North Korean positions on denuclearization was probably too wide to overcome (after nearly a year of talks, the two sides are no closer to a deal). Yet, President Trump had apparently hoped that the pomp and

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North and South Korea Steer Toward Peace Despite Heavy US Foot on the Brakes

“We had lived together for five thousand years but apart for just 70 years. Here, at this place today, I propose we move forward toward the big picture of peace in which the past 70-year-long hostility can be eradicated and we can become one again.” — South Korean President Moon Jae-in

Elliott Gabriel
بواسطة Elliott Gabriel
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in inside the Peace House in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea April 27, 2018 . Korea Summit Press | AP

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his counterpart from the South, President Moon Jae-in, made a powerful show of unity with the signing of the Pyongyang Declaration on Wednesday, underscoring their pursuit of “mutual reciprocity, common good and shared prosperity,” a cessation of tension, and an explicit call for “Korean

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North and South Korea Vow to “Eliminate All the Danger of War”

The Koreas agreed to withdraw 11 guard posts from the Demilitarized Zone, by December, and to establish a no-fly zone above the military demarcation line.

teleSUR
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north korea

On Wednesday, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to dismantle the country’s main nuclear complex at Nyongbyon, if the United States undertake similar act, to “eliminate all the danger of war.” “We have agreed to make the Korean Peninsula a land of peace that is free from nuclear weapons and nuclear threat,” Kim declared,

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