North Korea has opened its doors to tourists for the first time in four years, but Britons aren’t able to go. A recent group who visited the country were the first tourists to enter since the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Independent the tourists took off from Russia’s Vladivostok airport on Friday for the trip … Read more
A study by South Korea’s unification ministry has shed light on the lives of people living in North Korea. The ministry interviewed over 6,300 North Korean defectors between 2013 and 2022. The survey began in 2010; however, their findings have just been revealed. Around half of the people who arrived in South Korea between 2016 … Read more
SEOUL: North Korea tested its new strategic cruise missiles for the second time in a week on Sunday (Jan 28), calling it a newly developed submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM), accelerating its navy’s nuclear armament, state news agency KCNA reported on Monday. Leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of the missile, called “Pulhwasal-3-31”, which is … Read more
North Korea fired multiple unidentified cruise missiles on Sunday in a move that comes as leader Kim Jong Un ramps up his rhetoric about a potential conflict with the U.S. and South Korea. Multiple projectiles were detected around the waters near the North Korean port city of Shinpo, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said … Read more
Amid escalating tensions, North and South Korea are competing in a new realm: space. Each is rapidly advancing in satellite technology and space-based military strategies that could have ramifications for the peninsula.As inter-Korean military rivalries intensify and move into new realms, both Seoul and Pyongyang are increasingly looking to exploit the possibilities afforded by outer … Read more
THERE’S nothing like a holiday by the seaside, on the ski slopes — or enjoying a tour of a totalitarian regime’s vanity projects. But that’s just what tourists to North Korea can expect. 5 There’s nothing like a holiday by the seaside, on the ski slopes — or enjoying a tour of a totalitarian regime’s … Read more
North Korea has razed to the ground the monument that symbolised hope that someday North and South Korea may reunite. The Arch of Reunification has been demolished, but there is no clarity on exactly when it was done. However, the monument is no longer visible in satellite imagery, according to a report by NK News, … Read more
SEOUL: North Korea fired several cruise missiles towards the Yellow Sea on Wednesday (Jan 24), Seoul’s military said, the latest in a series of tension-raising moves by the nuclear-armed state. Pyongyang has accelerated weapons testing in the new year, including tests of what it called an “underwater nuclear weapon system” and a solid-fuelled hypersonic ballistic missile. … Read more
SEOUL: North Korea has demolished a major monument in its capital that symbolised the goal of reconciliation with South Korea on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un, who last week called the rival a “primary foe” and said unification was no longer possible. Satellite imagery of Pyongyang on Tuesday (Jan 23) showed that the … Read more
KIM Jong-un appears to have BLOWN UP a major monument in North Korea’s capital that symbolised hope for unity of the whole nation. The dramatic move is thought to have been a deliberate choice by the dictator, intended to reflect the sincerity of his wish to abandon a policy of peaceful unification with his county’s … Read more
