North Korea fires gunshots towards South Korea

BREAKING NEWS: North Korea fires gunshots towards South Korea South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staffs said in a statement that North Korea had fired a series of gunshots towards the country early Sunday  The shots were fired towards a guard post in South Korea South Korea said it responded by firing two shots back towards North … Read more

Senator Lindsey Graham adds weight to rumours that North Korean despot Kim Jong-un is ‘dead’

US Senator Lindsey Graham has weighed in on reports Kim Jong Un is dead, saying he would not be ‘shocked’ if the North Korean despot was ‘dead or incapacitated’. He said that in such a tightly controlled state rumours about the leader’s death would not be allowed to go ‘unanswered’. The South Carolina representative has … Read more

China sends medics to North Korea amid claims in Japanese media Kim Jong Un is in a vegetative state

New rumors are circulating claiming that Kim Jong Un has died –  including a top Hong Kong journalist  Vice director of HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television Shijian Xingzou says that a ‘very solid source’ has told her Kim Jonh Un has died.  Separately, one Japanese media outlet claims that the North Korean dictator is in a … Read more

Chinese medical team dispatched to North Korea to advise on Kim Jong-un’s care 

China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three people familiar with the situation. The trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports about the health of the North Korean leader. Reuters was unable to immediately determine what … Read more

True scale of North Korea’s coronavirus deaths ‘very likely exceeds imagination’, defector warns

North Korea is hiding the true devastation dealt to its people by coronavirus in a bid to spare China embarrassment, a senior defector has revealed. The regime is also desperate to keep its death toll from the people, he said, and was terrified of the ‘shockwaves’ that would rock society if the real impact was … Read more

North Korean capital’s ‘strangely beautiful’ architecture revealed in new book Model City Pyongyang

North Korea may be a nightmarishly oppressive state, but for architects there’s a sliver of dreamland within – the capital, Pyongyang. As architects Cristiano Bianchi and Kristina Drapic explain in their new book, Model City Pyongyang. They say: ‘We realised that the city does have its own strange kind of beauty. Pyongyang embodies the dream … Read more