North Korea

North Korea Test-fires New Hypersonic Missile

North Korea has tested a solid-fuel ballistic missile armed with a hypersonic warhead, the Korean Central Telegraphic Agency (KCTA) reported on Monday. The launch was conducted amid growing tensions with Pyongyang’s southern neighbor, after Seoul recently conducted military drills with the US near the North’s border. “On January 14, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s […]

Korean Unification “Impossible” – Kim

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Lang Son, Vietnam on February 26, 2019 ©  Getty Images / Linh Pham North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said it is impossible to achieve reunification between Pyongyang and Seoul because South Korea’s principles are directly opposed to those of his country. Addressing a meeting of the […]
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Biden Announces New Alliance Against China (‘North Korea’)

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Just as the U.S. Government under Obama had installed missiles into Poland and Romania near to Moscow, by using the phony excuse that doing this would defend the EU against (the non-existent) ‘threat from Iran’ (instead of for America to be able to use those missiles to blitz-attack Russia’s central […]

Some comments on the Russian Defense Minister’s visit to North Korea

July 27, 2023, was the 70th anniversary of the official end of the Korean War. In the DPRK this date is widely celebrated, and this year one of the main events in the ceremonies was the arrival of a Russian delegation, led by Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu. On July 25, the DPRK’s official press agency, […]
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A wave of fake news about famine in today’s North Korea

In the second half of June 2023, a wave of claims hit the world media that North Korea was allegedly experiencing a famine comparable to the Arduous March of the 1990s. A BBC article supposedly based on covert interviews with anonymous sources straight from North Korea (DPRK) and a documentary film based on the same […]
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CovertAction Bulletin: Breaking Through U.S. Propaganda on North Korea

A recent Washington Post article titled “A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story” highlights the many appearances Yeonmi Park has made on right-wing news outlets over the past few years. Scholars and solidarity activists have been pointing out the serious holes in Park’s stories since she started getting attention...

About the June Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Worker’s Party of Korea (WPK)

The 8th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was held in Pyongyang from June 16-18, 2023. The KCNA reports that the interim outcomes for the first half of 2023 were summarized, and the issues of the party’s development and strengthening, state-building, diplomatic, and defense strategies in […]

A chronicle of the escalation between North and South Korea in late April and May 2023

In this latest in his series of digests on the increasingly tense situation on the Korean peninsula the author presents an overview of the situation up to mid-June 2023. On April 15, in response to Pyongyang’s test of its new solid-fuel ICBM, the Hwaseong-18, the US and South Korea conducted joint air force exercises involving […]