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NORTH Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un has released a propaganda video showing a US aircraft carrier being blown up and a bomber shot down in flames. Snaps from the secretive state’s recent ballistic missile launches are shown alongside the haunting message: “A knife will be stabbed into the throat of the carrier.” It comes days after Kim Jong-un threatened the US with nuclear destruction

It's been at least 24 hours since any further sabers were rattled between China, US, South Korea, and North Korea (oh and Japan), but it according to DailyNK.com, Kim Jong Un has ordered the entire North Korean army into "combat mode" to tighten security and consolidate sentiment in response to military drills conducted by South Korea and the US, which began in early March. A source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK that following the order from Kim Jong Un, every last soldier-- even if away on business, on leave, off-base for training, or even those with a recent...

Kim Jong Nam's Murder Likely Means Dangerous Times Ahead for Members of North Korea's Ruling Family Charlie Campbell / Beijing 4:55 PM As the fallout from the assassination of Kim Jong Nam continues, more details are emerging about what sparked his murder, with possibly grave consequences for other members of North Korea’s ruling family. On Tuesday, North Korea banned Malaysian diplomats from leaving North Korea in response to the investigation into the death of Kim Jong Nam, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother, who police say was poisoned with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13....

What a single image of Kim Jong-un can tell us about his plans and his nuclear capabilities... Experts analysing North Korea can pinpoint the location of photographs A team of professionals have started dating propaganda snaps by Kim's weight Body language and what the dictator is wearing is said to give a big insight The image shows North Korea has a deadly serious programme, experts said By Gareth Davies For Mailonline PUBLISHED: 13:55 GMT, 27 February 2017 | UPDATED: 16:05 GMT, 27 February 2017 Experts have revealed they can work out Kim Jong-un's nuclear plans and capabilities by analysing just...

North Korea executed five senior security officials with anti-aircraft guns because they made false reports that enraged Kim Jong-un. South Korea's spy agency the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said Monday the five victims were from the state security department. They are said to have produced false reports which angered the country's leader which resulted in them being murdered with the hugely powerful weapons.

/begin translation N. Korean Defector's Association, "Proposed Kim Jong-nam to Head the Government-in-exile...but He Opposed Third Generation Hereditary Rule" Yoo Ji-han 2017.02.21 Representatives from defector's organizations both inside and outside S. Korea proposed Kim Jong-nam to be a head of N. Korean government-in-exile, but he refused, arguing, "That is another third generation hereditary rule." In an interview with Donga-ilbo on Feb. 19(local time,) Kim Ju-il, the Secretary-general of International North Korean Defector's Association based in UK, said, "I have been in contact with Kim Jong-nam for last year and a half, asking him to head the government-in-exile." According to the...

<p>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN)Kim Jong Nam didn't have a heart attack and the medics who conducted his autopsy found no obvious puncture marks or wounds, a top Malaysian health official said Tuesday, compounding the mystery over the North Korean's death.</p>

/begin my excerpt Kim Jong-nam Allegedly Met N. Korean Agents Seoul - Moon Sung-hui 2017-02-15 Anchor: Before his assassination in Feb. 13, Kim Jong-nam allegedly had met N. Korean diplomats three times in S. East Asia between January and early February of this year. A report by Moon Sung-hui: Attentions are drawn to sources on (N. Korea) related affairs who allege that Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of Chairman Kim Jong-un, met N. Korean diplomats before his assassination. The sources also mentioned that N. Korean diplomats personally delivered to him a letter from Kim Jong-un. On Feb. 3, (our) source, a N....

The assassination of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother is another sign that North Korea’s ruthless leader has grown increasingly “desperate” — and the killing could have disastrous, destabilizing consequences, experts told The Post. Kim Jong Nam — the elder, exiled son of late North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il — was poisoned by two female assassins at a Malaysian airport Monday, and all indications are that Kim Jong Un ordered the killing. If indeed proven to be true, the assassination was an “especially heinous act” in a society where the legitimacy of the regime is determined by bloodlines, according to Gordon...

This weekend saw wall-to-wall coverage of North Korea’s missile testing. But today the most important news in years came out of the DPRK, and the Western media is largely silent. This speaks to just how poorly understood North Korea remains, despite both increasing international scrutiny and an ever-growing body of information escaping from the country. Kim Jong Il’s son, Kim Jong Nam, was found dead in Malaysia, reportedly murdered. There is perhaps no greater sign possible of the instability of the current DPRK regime. In fact, it was Jong Nam who was first groomed to succeed the Dear Leader. By...

Kim Jong-un may be obese, but he is no fool when it comes to guarding his flank.  You just can't be too careful when watching your back if you are a murderous dictator.  He believes in killing off any possible rivals before they can act against him.  He already had an uncle executed, and now a potential rival, the actual firstborn child of his father, has been executed in exile. ZeroHedge reports: Just two days after North Korea embarrassed both the US and Japan by test-firing a new, nuclear-capable ICBM with a 2000 mile range, with neither Trump nor Abe...

Erratic escalation? Kim Jong-Un is often said to be a sadistic monster, and his propensity for creative, painful, and brutal executions In an attack that sounds like something out of a Bond movie, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been assassinated in Malaysia. The method? Two female killers carrying either poison needles or a mysterious spray aerosol.

N. Korean leader's half-brother killed in Malaysia: source SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother has been killed in Malaysia, a government source said Tuesday. Kim Jong-nam was assassinated on Monday in Malaysia, the source said without revealing details. Cable TV broadcaster TV Chosun reported that Kim was killed at an airport in Malaysia after being attacked by two unidentified female agents with "poisoned needles." The suspects fled the scene and Malaysian police suspected North Korea was behind the killing. If confirmed, Kim's case would mark the most high-profile death under the Kim Jong-un regime since...

Power Struggles Continue as Kim Jong-un Ousts Spy Chief February 06, 2017 12:25 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sacked the chief of his secret services amid ongoing power struggles in the reclusive country. The Unification Ministry on Friday said the North's State Security Minister Kim Won-hong was dismissed in mid-January on charges of corruption and abuse of power. He was demoted from a four-star to a one-star general. Several vice ministers appear to have been executed. Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said Kim is still under "intense" investigation. Kim Jong-un unprecedentedly admitted "shortcomings" as a leader in his New...

Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong Un fired minister of state security Kim Won Hong instead of sending him out to the firing squad in his latest purge. Won Hung was dismissed from his position with secret police “bowibu” for apparent charges of “corruption, abuse of power and human rights abuses,” South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said in a press conference. “There is always a possibility that purges continue as part of constantly strengthening power,” Joon-he said, while adding Won Hung could face more severe punishment — such as execution — if the outcome of...

North Korea to Obama: Focus on moving, not human rights record Euan McKirdy January 17, 2017 (CNN)North Korea has said President Barack Obama should concentrate on packing rather than focusing on the reclusive nation's human rights record. State-owned North Korean press agency KCNA slammed additional sanctions filed by the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), calling the move a "hostile policy" and the "last-ditch efforts" of an administration "whose days are numbered."

US imposes sanctions on N. Korea leader's sister over human rights violations 2017-01-12 US imposes sanctions on N. Korea leader's sister over human rights violations The United States imposed sanctions on the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday for her links to human rights violations in the communist nation. Kim Yo-jong, the leader's younger sister and vice director of the Workers Party's Propaganda and Agitation Department, was among seven North Korean officials and two agencies that the State Department blacklisted for their roles in the regime's human rights violations. It was the second time the U.S. has...

US would shoot down North Korean ballistic missile test if it threatens territory, allies, Carter says North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities and ballistic missile defense programs constitute a "serious threat" to the United States, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Sunday. The United States is prepared to shoot down a North Korean missile launch or test "if it were coming towards our territory or the territory of our friends and allies," Carter said during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." North Korea declared on Sunday it can test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile at any time from any location set...

A pledge by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to advance efforts this year to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile received a blunt Twitter slap down Monday from President-elect Donald Trump: “It won’t happen!” “North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the U.S.,” Trump tweeted. “It won’t happen!” In a subsequent post, the president-elect criticized China — North Korea’s closest ally and biggest trading partner — for not doing enough to rein in its unstable neighbor. “China has been taking out massive amounts of money & wealth...

(3rd LD) N.K. in final stage of preparations to launch ICBM: leader 2017/01/01 17:38 By Kim Soo-yeon SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is in the final stage of preparing to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the country's leader said Sunday, in the latest sign that Pyongyang will not abandon its nuclear and missile programs. North Korea "soared as a nuclear and military power," boosted by the success of the country's two nuclear tests last year, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in his verbal New Year's speech broadcast by the state-run TV station. "We were actively engaged...