North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said the country’s capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear material has more than doubled over the past five years, signaling Pyongyang’s continued commitment to expanding its nuclear arsenal. Read More: North Korea may have made more nuclear bombs According to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim made the remarks during […]
Korean Peninsula
North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile, Seoul says
SEOUL: North Korea fired several projectiles, including at least one short-range ballistic missile, toward waters off its west coast on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, marking the country’s first known missile launch since April. According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the projectiles were launched at around 1pm local time (0400 GMT) from […]
South Korea’s Lee urges Xi to mediate on North Korea’s nuclear programme
SEOUL/BEIJING: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday that he had urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to help curb North Korea’s nuclear programme and explore a potential freeze in exchange for “compensation,” during his visit to Beijing, the first by a South Korean leader in six years. Read More: North Korea prepares for nuclear test: South Korea […]
Kim Jong Un’s daughter makes first mausoleum visit
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s daughter, Kim Ju Ae, has made her first public visit to the mausoleum housing her grandfather and great-grandfather, a symbolic appearance that has intensified speculation she is being groomed as the country’s next leader. State media images released on Friday showed Kim Jong Un visiting the Kumsusan Palace of […]
An icy Moscow visit
For the handful of Americans attending this year’s Moscow International Security Conference (MISC), unsurprisingly, the Kremlin’s attitude towards Washington and, of course, NATO was icy, confrontational and accusatory. Russian participants made abundantly clear to the 700 or so participants from some fifty-five states the major dangers to international security: the U.S. and NATO. The U.S […]
Peace in Korean Peninsula
US President Doanld Trump and President of North Korea Kim Jong Un held a second summit in Vietnam in February 2019. It ended without tangible results. This showed how great a gulf of understanding exists between the two countries. However, both are still probably hopeful to attain their goals in mutual interest through dialogue. The […]