BY REUTERS North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has met the country’s women’s football team that won the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia last week, lauding their achievement as a source of national celebration and people’s unity, state media KCNA said on Tuesday. North Korea’s title win, with a 1-0 […]
BY REUTERS South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol offered on Thursday to establish a working-level consultative body with North Korea to discuss ways to ease tension and resume economic cooperation, as he laid out his vision on unification of the neighbours. In a National Liberation Day speech marking the 79th […]
By AFP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged his party to “accelerate” war preparations including its nuclear programme, state media said Thursday. The comments came just a week after Kim warned Pyongyang would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if “provoked” with nukes. Kim made the comments at […]
By AFP North Korea is closing its embassy in Uganda, officials said, ending a half-century diplomatic presence in one of its longest-standing African allies. The move was announced after a meeting Monday between Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and North Korean Ambassador Jong Tong Hak. “Ambassador Jong informed the president that […]
By AFP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia Tuesday ahead of a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that the United States has warned could see an arms deal to support Moscow’s assault on Ukraine. Making a rare foreign trip and his first since the pandemic, an unsmiling […]
