Western commentators seem generally mesmerised by North Korea’s quixotic behaviour. The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is described as “delusional”, “fruitcake”, “reckless”, and the actions of North Korea…
Are moves to put North Korea’s military on its highest alert level just posturing by leader Kim Jong-un?
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The North Korean government announced yesterday via its Korean Central News Agency that it is placing its “strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units” on their highest alert status.
The press…
The fallout from North Korea’s nuclear test will reach beyond its neighbours to the south.
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Overnight North Korea conducted its third nuclear weapons test. The test came in the wake of a successful long-range rocket launch in December and resulting condemnation from the United Nations Security…
A visit to North Korea by Google chairman EricSchmidt and American ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson has raised diplomatic concerns.
Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and American ambassador to the United Nations and Google chairman Eric Schmidt have recently arrived in North Korea on a well-publicised private mission to…
North Korea is playing a high-stakes game with a planned rocket launch this month.
EPA/KCNA South Korea
As the first anniversary of Great Leader Kim Jong Il’s death approaches, North Korea again stands poised to launch another rocket carrying its Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite into space.
According to Korean…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s reign remains legitimate.
KCNA
The technical aspects of North Korea’s failed rocket launch
last week are less interesting than the political undercurrents swirling around this event.
Yesterday, the UN announced increased sanctions…
Julia Gillard needs to do more to impress in South Korea.
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It’s impossible to separate North Korea’s defensive ambitions from its leadership transition.
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In March, North Korea’s external propaganda mouthpiece Korean Central News Agency announced the impending launch of a satellite, the Kwangmyongsong-3, during a four-day launch window timed to correspond…
North Korea’s isolation has seen it rely on criminal activity to earn foreign currency.
The death of Kim Jong-il has refocused the world’s attention on the “Hermit Kingdom”, North Korea. This moniker is an apt description of its isolation from the international community – an isolation that…
A photograph dated 11 October 2010 depicting Kim Jong-il (right) and his putative heir Kim Jung-Un (left).
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Kim Jong-il, the mercurial “Dear Leader” of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), died of heart failure on 17 December 2011, at the age of 69.
One could be excused for not believing in…
Kim Jong-Il has died, leaving son Kim Jong-un in power.
Yonhap
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has died at the official age of 69 (it is believed he was 70). The nation’s “dear leader” was reported by state television to have died on a train trip yesterday morning…
