The assassination of the North Korean leader’s half brother illustrates the “brutal and inhuman” nature of the regime in Pyongyang, Seoul said Wednesday after Kim Jong-Nam was reportedly killed in Malaysia by female agents. Two women are believed to have used some kind of poison for the Cold War-style killing, with reports from Malaysia and … Read more
The U. S. government strongly believes that North Korean agents murdered the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia, U.S. government sources said on Tuesday. American authorities have not yet determined exactly how Kim Jong Nam was killed, according to two sources, who did not provide specific evidence to support the … Read more
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-nam, has been killed with poison in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, reports say. Malaysian police said a North Korean man waiting at the airport for a flight to Macau on Monday had fallen ill and died on his way to hospital. However, they named him … Read more
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been killed in Malaysia, South Korean and Malaysian sources say. Kim Jong-nam, 45, is said to have been targeted at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, the capital. A source close to the Malaysian PM’s office told the BBC that Mr Kim was killed in the city, … Read more
They used to call him the “Little General” but Kim Jong-Nam — once heir-apparent to his father and North Korea’s then-leader Kim Jong-Il — fell from grace in 2001 after a spectacular blunder. On Tuesday, after more than a decade in exile from the North, Jong-Nam — the 45-year-old half-brother of current leader Kim Jong-Un … Read more
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been killed in Malaysia, South Korean and Malaysian sources say. Kim Jong-nam, 45, is said to have been targeted at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, the capital. A source close to the Malaysian PM’s office told the BBC that Mr Kim was killed in the city, … Read more
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been assassinated in Malaysia, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday. The agency quoted a Seoul government source as saying Kim Jong-Nam was killed on Monday. The source gave no further details. Officials in Seoul were not immediately available for comment. The 45-year-old was poisoned by … Read more
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile in the first such test since Donald Trump took office as US president. Mr Trump assured Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%”. The missile flew east towards the Sea of Japan for about 500km (300 miles), South Korean officials say. … Read more
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile in the first such test since Donald Trump took office as US president. Mr Trump assured Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%”. The missile flew east towards the Sea of Japan for about 500km (300 miles), South Korean officials say. … Read more
US defence secretary James Mattis is in South Korea on the first foreign trip by a senior official in the Trump administration. Mr Mattis is expected to use the visit to reassure Seoul of continuing US commitment to security deals in the face of threats from North Korea. While campaigning, Donald Trump accused South Korea … Read more
Today marks the third anniversary of Komla Dumor’s death. The BBC TV presenter died suddenly at his home in London at the age of 41, exactly three years ago today. The BBC reported at the time that Dumor suffered a heart attack. The Ghanaian broadcaster was a presenter for BBC World News and its Focus … Read more
Donald Trump has dismissed North Korea’s claim to be developing missiles capable of striking America. In a tweet, the US president-elect derided the claim by North Korea’s Kim Jong-un that preparations were in the final stage, saying: “It won’t happen.” It was not clear if Mr Trump was expressing doubts about North Korea’s nuclear capabilities … Read more
A new documentary reveals secret audio tapes of late North Korean leader Kim Jong II talking openly about his frustrations with the country’s propaganda and film production. He is heard speaking freely in a high-pitched voice, in tapes smuggled out of the country in the 1980s by two South Koreans who were kidnapped and held … Read more
Come out, come out, wherever you are. For the parents of a Mormon missionary from Utah in the United States, that phrase has new meaning. For the last twelve years, Kathleen and Roy Sneddon hoped and prayed their son, David, lived. In 2004, Chinese officials in Yunnan province informed the Sneddons that their then 24-year-old … Read more
Folks, happenings in the Korean Peninsula are frightening. No one who knows what is building up will underrate those happenings as potential sources of a catastrophe that will put the world on edge. Those familiar with the three-year fratricidal war between North Korea and South Korea and the influence of the international community, especially the … Read more