North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has fallen into a coma, a former South Korean official is claiming on the heels of reports that the northern leader has ceded over some of his power to his younger sister. Chang Song-min, a former aide to late-South Korean president Kim Dae-jung, has alleged that the Hermit Kindom’s […]

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered at least two people executed, banned fishing at sea and locked down the capital, Pyongyang, as part of frantic efforts to guard against the coronavirus and its economic damage, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Friday. Kim’s government also ordered diplomats overseas to […]

Seoul – A Japanese official indicated to a visiting group of South Korean lawmakers that it would be possible to invite North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to next summer’s Tokyo Olympics, a South Korean newspaper reported Wednesday, quoting one of the legislators. Kim Jin-pyo, who headed the group on a three-day visit to Tokyo […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With unusual candor, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged his plans to improve the country’s dismal economy aren’t succeeding as his ruling party scheduled a rare congress in January to set development goals for the next five years. The Workers’ Party said North Korea’s economy has “not improved in […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un‘s wife, Ri Sol Ju, appeared in state media for the first time in more than a year on Wednesday, joining her husband at a concert on one of the country’s biggest holidays. The official ruling Worker’s Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun released photos of the pair at the event to […]

BEIJING (Kyodo) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that Beijing will work to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. Kim, for his part, told Xi that North Korea is eager to strengthen ties with China and that their friendly […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Last year was a disaster for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He helplessly watched his country’s already battered economy decay further amid pandemic border closures while brooding over the collapse of made-for-TV summits with former President Donald Trump that failed to lift crippling sanctions from his country. Now he […]

DEPOK, Indonesia — The mother didn’t stop crying from the moment she arrived at the cemetery. In disbelief, she repeatedly clutched and kissed the wooden grave marker bearing the name of her daughter, Isti Yudha Prastika. “Mama waits for you every day,” she sobbed. “Why don’t you return home?” Ms. Isti, 34, was an off-duty […]

Eighteen Zambia national soccer team players along with 12 others perished on Tuesday night when a Zambia Air Force plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gabon five minutes after take off from Gabonese capital Libreville, wrote the Times of Zambia on the front page on 29th April, 1993. Football Association of […]

A bomb ready to explode was found Thursday in the mailbox of the headquarters of the Swiss Turkish Society (ITT), which serves as the umbrella group of Turkish nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the Rumlang region of Switzerland. ITT Chairperson Şeref Yıldız, who has been exposed to attacks by PKK supporters many times and had to […]