Status: 01/25/2023 11:11 am North Korea had already declared the corona virus defeated. According to a media report, a new lockdown has now been imposed in the capital Pyongyang. Officially, the step is only justified with "respiratory diseases". According to a report, North Korea has ordered a five-day lockdown for the capital Pyongyang because of "respiratory diseases". As the South Korean news website "NK News" reported, citing a government announcement, residents of the North Korean capital were ordered to stay...
Residents of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, have been ordered to stay at home from Wednesday to Sunday and must submit to multiple temperature readings each day, Seoul-based NK News reported. citing a government document. This text does not mention Covid-19, over which the dictatorship announced its victory in August 2022.But the North Korean government refers to the common cold as a new disease spreading in the capital. The Korean Peninsula is currently in the throes of what meteorologists describe...
Tension is rising between Western countries and North Korea. Since November, Pyongyang has tested a record number of missiles despite warnings from the United States, Japan and South Korea. The latest: a ballistic missile that fell on Friday in Tokyo's exclusive economic zone, west of Hokkaido. This missile appears to be its latest ICBM from Pyongyang, whose potential range would allow it to hit the American continent. A new provocation which has triggered concern on the other side of the...
Pyongyang is angry with Antonio Guterres. The North Korean foreign minister on Sunday criticized the "deplorable attitude" of the UN secretary general, who condemned a recent firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, announced the state agency KCNA.“I express my deep regret that the UN Secretary-General observes a truly deplorable attitude, oblivious to the purpose and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and its very mission which is to maintain impartiality, objectivity and fairness on all matters,” Minister Choe...
Little is known about personal affairs of the Kim dynasty. The world doesn't even know for sure how old Kim Jong-un is. South Korean intelligence suspects he is 38 years old; North Korea once changed his birth year from 1983 to 1982 to keep him in line: his father Kim Jong-il was born in 1942 and his grandfather Kim Il-sung in 1912. It is therefore a remarkable move that Kim Jong-un now presents his daughter in public for the first...
ICBM testing | Dictator Kim shows his daughter for the first time!Surprise in North Korea! For the first time, dictator Kim Jong-un (38) presented his daughter in public. ► Kim visited a missile testing site on Friday to see the ICBM test to observe. Also present: his daughter, most likely Ju-ae (9-10), who was born in 2012 or 2013. Dictator Kim Jong-un and his daughter in front of the Hwasong-17 ICBM before it was launched Photo: KCNA/via REUTERS Kim watches...
The Korean peninsula is still living under high tension. After a lull of a few days, North Korea launched a new ballistic missile. According to the South Korean general staff, the projectile was fired around 10:48 a.m. (2:48 a.m. in France) from the Wonsan region, on the east coast, towards the Sea of Japan. This missile traveled 240 km at a maximum altitude of 47 km.At the same time, North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui denounced South Korea's joint...
North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, the latest launch from Pyongyang after a record series of weapons tests earlier this month. “North Korea (fired) an unidentified ballistic missile toward the East Sea,” also known as the Sea of Japan, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul reported. source site
THE ESSENTIAL Ukraine received new Western air defense systems on Monday to counter Russian missiles that regularly rain down on cities and infrastructure across the country.source site
North Korea continues its show of force. On the heels of a week marked by a record number of missile launches, Pyongyang launched four more short-range missiles towards the Yellow Sea, the South Korean military said on Saturday. South Korea's military detected the launch "from Donglim, North Pyongan Province, towards the Western Sea, between 11:32 a.m. and 11:39 a.m.," South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, using a another name for the Yellow Sea. source site