NEW DELHI: North Korean defectors shared their harrowing experiences at a UN event in Geneva, calling attention to human rights violations in their home country. One defector described North Korea as ‘hell’ and urged for a stronger UN mandate to investigate these abuses, reports Fox News.The defectors gathered in Geneva where the UN Human Rights … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for stepping up “war preparations” during a visit to a naval shipyard near a South Korean island that was once the scene of deadly confrontation, adding to the bellicose rhetoric he’s used recently. Kim inspected warships being built at the Nampho Dockyard on the country’s west coast, the … Read more
NEW DELHI: A novel approach to studying the progression of tuberculosis (TB) from infection to disease can identify and treat people at increased risk of developing the disease that current methods of testing would not, according to a study published in The Lancet Microbe journal. Researchers at the National Institute for Health and Care Research … Read more
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea “our principal enemy” and threatened to annihilate it if provoked, as he escalates his inflammatory, belligerent rhetoric against Seoul and the United States before their elections this year.Kim’s threat comes as the White House said it has evidence that Russia has fired additional North … Read more
NEW DELHI: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whose birthday is believed to be on January 8, celebrated turning 40 on Monday. However, Pyongyang media continued its decades-long tradition of silence on Kim’s presumed birthday.While North Korea‘s secretive regime has never officially confirmed Kim’s birthdate, the US government lists his birth year as 1984, making … Read more
South Korean heart-throb turned a year older on December 16 and a day later, he has given fans a glimpse of his birthday celebration. The ‘What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim‘ star thanked fans for their wishes on his special day and revealed how he spent the occasion.From a selfie posing as a gift to celebrating … Read more
FILE – Woman found dead in her Presidio Heights apartment from a suspected homicide was identified by the San Francisco Medical Examiner on Tuesday. Alfredo Alonso Avila / EyeEm/Getty Images The woman found dead in her Presidio Heights apartment from a suspected homicide was identified by the San Francisco Medical Examiner on Tuesday as Kimberly … Read more
South Korea on Friday launched its first military spy satellite, a little over a week after North Korea claimed to put its own spy satelliteinto orbit for the first time as tensions rise between the rivals. Launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base using SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, it was the first of five spy … Read more
Moscow: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Wednesday he was confident Moscow would win a “great victory” over its enemies, during a high-profile banquet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Putin held talks with the reclusive leader in Russia’s Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East, as Moscow grows increasingly isolated from the West over its … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has departed for Russia, where he is expected to hold a rare meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. North Korea’s official news agency said Tuesday that Kim boarded his personal train from the capital, Pyongyang, … Read more