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Galloping through forest atop a white horse, Kim Jong Un stars in a new North Korean propaganda video that touts his economic leadership but ignores a recent spate of sanctions-busting missile launches. Pyongyang started the year by conducting a record seven weapons tests, including firing its most powerful missile since 2017, raising fears Kim could restart long-range or nuclear testing. But the government-produced documentary released this week highlights Kim's struggle to right the country's battered economy, which is reeling from a years-long blockade due to the coronavirus and international sanctions. "The overriding theme of the documentary is Kim's devotion to...

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has vanished from the public eye for two weeks, South Korean media reported, prompting fears that he may be preparing to mark Tuesday’s public holiday by firing a new rocket. The last time Kim went days without being seen was prior to the ICBM launch in late July, when he remained incognito for two weeks before making his grandiose public appearance. His public withdrawal comes as nuclear tensions mount between Washington and Pyongyang, and on the heels of the leader’s threat to attack the U.S. island territory of Guam. On Tuesday, North Korea is...

Portly North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, whose hostile actions have brought crippling international sanctions to his impoverished nation, has a new message for the Hermit Kingdom’s starving masses: Get ready to eat plant roots. Kim, whose weight the South Korean government estimates has ballooned to nearly 300 pounds, signaled through state media that the nation could be headed for another famine like the one that killed an estimated 3.5 million people in the 1990s. “The road to revolution is long and arduous,” an editorial in the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper said Monday, according to The Telegraph. “We may have...

Provoking unstable Kim EDITOR: Of all the remarks about North Korea’s reaction to “The Interview,” I’ve heard none about how provocative, goading, taunting, death-threatening this film must be to an unstable, possibly crazed leader of an enemy country. In our elementary and high schools, this is called bullying and we know too well the tragic consequences. When we throw our kingly weight around other countries, flaunting our free speech, daring them to respond negatively, then get righteously punishing, I don’t get it. JOAN PANARO Santa Rosa

Just hours after a top North Korean official threatened a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States, President Barack Obama said he’s also willing to take aggressive action, under certain conditions. “If Kim Jong-Un were an American citizen,” Obama said, “I’d drone him in a second — but only if he were on U.S. soil, since North Korea is a long flight, and drone fuel is scarce because of the sequester.” The remarks come after Sen. Rand Paul and fellow Republicans staged a filibuster, talking on the Senate floor for nearly 13 hours Wednesday in a vain attempt to get...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69. Kim's death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media. The leader, reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.

Kim Jong-il is dead

Kim Jong-il's is DEAD!

North Korea’s Memorial Day detonation of another nuclear bomb, coupled with the launch of five missiles in two days that are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, needs to be immediately addressed unilaterally by the United States. Relying on the United Nations is a waste of valuable time and energy.

Kim Jong-il has formally named his third son, Kim Jong-un, as his successor as he prepares to stand down as North Korea's leader. Kim Jong-il, 67, who is known as North Korea's "Dear Leader", suffered a stroke at the end of last year and has been incapacitated ever since. South Korea's National Intelligence Service has now confirmed that the Korean People's Army, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the ministerial cabinet have been asked to pledge their allegiance to Kim Jong-un, 25, the youngest member of the world's only Communist ruling dynasty. "I was notified by the South...

George W Bush makes plea to Kim Jong-Il By Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 2:52am GMT 07/12/2007 Six years after branding North Korea as part of the "axis of evil", President George W Bush has made an unprecedented personal appeal to Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean leader, to disclose and disable his nuclear programme. The letter, on Dec 1, which the White House described as Mr Bush's first direct communication with Kim, came amid growing concern that Pyongyang will not meet a Dec 31 deadline to reveal all about its nuclear agenda, 15 months after it stunned the world...

As the world grapples with how to rein in the "axis of evil" state which this week conducted a nuclear test, this spectacular satellite photo unveiled yesterday by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shows in stark detail the haves and have-nots of the Korean peninsula. The regime in the north is so short of electricity that the whole country is switched off at 9 p.m. - apart from the capital of Pyongyang where dictator Kim Jong-il and his cohorts live in relative luxury. But even there, lighting is drastically reduced.

N Korea's bomb 'would kill 200,000' By Sergey Soukhorukov in Pyongyang (Filed: 08/10/2006) The nuclear weapon that North Korea intends to detonate in an underground test is big enough to kill up to 200,000 people were it ever to be used against a city such as Seoul or Tokyo, Russian military experts have revealed. They say that the weapon, with the same 20-kiloton yield as the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, is about 10ft long and weighs four tons. It is too big to fit on to any missile Kim Jong Il's regime currently possesses but if it were detonated above...

The worst hell on earth has to be North Korea. Not only are the people starving and working in slave labor, every free moment they have is spent in singing praises to their Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il who is truly mentally Il. Here we have a moral and physical midget who is living in the lap of luxury while much of his slave population often die of starvation. Nobody in his right mind would consider living under such conditions yet the DUmmies put Kim Jong Il on either the same moral plane as Bush or even on a...

Kim Jong Il Has Face Transplant, Comes to US as Ted Turner WASHINGTON, DC --- A recent story about a new face transplant procedure has now explained a bizarre interview with Ted Turner by Wolf Blitzer. Turner returned from a trip to North Korea this week and told Wolf Blitzer that Kim Jong Il isn't evil and should be given a chance to give up his own nuclear capabilities and be trusted. His reason? Kim Jong Il doesn't look evil in photographs. Hours after the bizarre exchange, federal agents arrested the person looking like Ted Turner and confirmed he was...

SEOUL -- North Korea said today that it would not dismantle its nuclear-weapons program until the United States first provides an atomic energy reactor, casting doubt on its commitment to a breakthrough agreement reached at international arms talks. The North's Foreign Ministry made the surprise demand a day after it had agreed at six-nation talks in Beijing to give up its arms efforts. The North insisted during arms talks that began last week in Beijing that it be given a light-water reactor, a type less easily diverted for weapons use, in exchange for abandoning nuclear weapons. The agreement reached at...

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea demanded Tuesday that the United States give it a light water nuclear reactor before it rejoins the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and ends its weapons program. The North's Foreign Ministry made the demand a day after it agreed at six-nation talks in Beijing to give up its arms efforts, rejoin the treaty, and accept inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency. "We will return to the NPT and sign the safeguards agreement with the IAEA and comply with it immediately upon the U.S. provision of LWRs, a basis of confidence-building to us," the ministry...

'Team America' unsettles Team Kim in Pyongyang Special to World Tribune.comEAST-ASIA-INTEL.COMWednesday, February 9, 2005 The caricature of North Korea's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-Il, in the film, "Team America: World Police," is striking a discordant note among North Korean officials, and probably their supreme leader himself, despite his well-known love for private viewings of foreign movies. North Korean leader Kim Jung Il in Paramount's "Team America: World Police - 2004." Word from Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is that the North Korean embassy there is asking the government to ban the film, the creation of Trey Parker and Matt...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - North Korea's embassy in Prague has demanded that the film "Team America: World Police'' be banned in the Czech Republic, saying the movie harms their country's reputation, a report said Saturday. North Korean diplomats issued their protest to the Foreign Ministry on Thursday, saying the film ridicules North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the Lidove Noviny daily said. The film, by "South Park'' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, uses a cast of puppets _ including one of Kim _ to poke fun at the U.S. war on terror. The team of marionettes fights terrorism,...

DOSSIER: Kim Jong-Il Who is Kim Jong-Il? Contrary to the popular belief that Kim Il-Sung groomed his son to transfer power to him, Sohn's biography and the testimonies of other defectors confirm that Kim fought his way up. By 1987, even his father was under the junior Kim's control. Kim Jong-Il Age: 61 or 62 Mission: Dictator of North Korea Whereabouts:Pyongyang The following is based on a report in the Oct. 17 edition of East-Asia-Intel.com. The only man ever to attempt nuclear blackmail against the United States turns out not to be the man the world thought him to...