Happy Birthday (Maybe), Kim Jong-Un
The new leader of North Korea celebrates a birthday by reviewing troops and riding a horse.
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North Korea noticed the world stopped paying attention to them, and so, the country fired three short range missiles off the coast to out all eyes on them. Are we about to fall back into the endless stream of provocations and threats that seemed to die down?
The new leader of North Korea celebrates a birthday by reviewing troops and riding a horse.
A day after naming Kim Jong-Un leader of its army, North Korea welcomed the New Year with a haunting message about how its citizens would serve as "human shields" to protect its new leader "unto death."
First there was Great Leader Kim Il-sung, then Dear Leader Kim Jong-il. Now North Korea sings the mandatory praises of its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un.
The North Korean state news agency has been caught manipulating photos from the memorial service of Kim Jong-il, but in such a minor and pointless way that it underscores the paranoid insanity of totalitarian regimes.
Like so many out-of-luck relatives at family functions, North Korea asked its richer cousin for some money today at a memorial service for Kim Jong-il.
North Korea's zany, despotic and now dead dear leader Kim Jong-Il reportedly spent $720,000 a year on Hennessey cognac (while his people starved) but the French luxury brandy maker says they'll get along fine without his business.
Among the many pontificating pundit pieces devoted to looking into North Korea's future without Kim Jong-Il, new analysis from Reuters offers a uniquely newsy take on the issue.
Well this is awkward. North Korean officials have sternly invited demanded South Korea send a delegation to Kim Jong Il's funeral next week, and that not doing so would be "an unbearable insult and mockery of our dignity."
Since we really still don't know much about North Korea, The Telegraph has culled together a fascinating collection of satellite photos offering a bird's-eye glimpse into the strange ways of the secretive state.
While the rest of the world is still grasping at the tiny bits of information about Kim Jong-un, the state-run North Korean News has started producing legends of its new "divine" leader.
A new report out of North Korea says that the country will be ruled by a group of people, though Kim Jong-il's son will remain the figurehead at the front of the country.
Today in books: Bill Clinton's five favorite books are heavy reading, Michael Chabon says publishers are getting an unfair share of e-book profits, and The New York Times assembles "a North Korea reading list."
Following the surprise death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, U.S. intelligence officials are admitting a disturbing truth to reporters in the media: The U.S. and it's allies know shockingly little about the nuclear-armed Hermit kingdom—and it's only getting worse.
North Korea's new leader was among the public mourners as the body of Kim Jong-il was shown lying in state on Korean television.
Another week, another Rick Perry gaffe, this time concerning the big news item of the day, the death of Kim Jong-Il.
During his 69 or so years on Earth, North Korea's "dear leader" lived less as a world leader than he did a historical enigma, a caricature of a despotic dictator with an unpredictable, lavish and always unusual temperament. Eccentric is too common a word to describe it.
In one of the more disturbing things you'll hear from North Korea today, the country conducted at least one short-range missile test today, news reports are confirming.
North Korean state media had its work cut out for it Saturday when its dear leader died of an alleged heart attack while traveling on a train.
On Sunday night -- Monday morning in Pyongyang -- North Korean state television announcers sobbed their way through announcing news that Kim Jong-Il had died.
North Korean officials have announced that their "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il has died.
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
After a long spate of hostility, cross-border cooperation starts with a joint classical music performance
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
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