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North Korea Steps Closer to Rocket Launch

Could happen in as soon as 5 days

(Newser) - North Korea has taken another step toward its promised long-range rocket test , which could happen as soon as Monday. The three stages of the rocket have now been assembled on its launchpad at a northwest military base, and Yonhap News reports that workers have been spotted departing the site. The...

North Korea Will Try Again With Missile Launch

Last long-range attempt fizzled in April

(Newser) - North Korea said today it would try to launch a long-range rocket in mid-December, a defiant move just eight months after a failed April bid was widely condemned as a violation of a UN ban against developing its nuclear and missile programs. The launch, set for Dec. 10 to 22,...

Kim Jong Un Keeps the Illegal Weapons Flowing

Shipments to Burma, Syria have been blocked this year

(Newser) - Dear ol' Dad may be dead and gone, but his illegal-weapons-exporting ways live on under the watch of Kim Jong Un, reports the Wall Street Journal , which spoke with officials who verify that ships and planes en route to Syria and Burma from North Korea and laden with missile technology...

Kim Jong Un's Wife Finally Reappears

Ri Sol Ju hadn't been seen publicly for months

(Newser) - After two months of uncertainty as to her whereabouts, Kim Jong Un's wife, Ri Sol Ju, appeared in public yesterday. Her disappearance from the public eye had fueled suggestions she faced disciplinary trouble from the country's elders, or that she was pregnant, Reuters reports. Yesterday, Ri attended a...

Kim Jong Un's Nephew: I Want to Help

Kim Han Sol gives rare interview to UN official

(Newser) - Kim Jong Il's grandson has given a rare television interview in which he says that he's "always dreamed that one day I would go back and make things better and make it easier for the people" of North Korea. Kim Han Sol—nephew of current leader Kim...

North Korean Farmers May Be Allowed to Keep Surplus Crops

Kim Jong Un plans big change

(Newser) - North Korean farmers who have long been required to turn most of their crops over to the state may now be allowed to keep their surplus food to sell or barter in what could be the most significant economic change enacted by young leader Kim Jong Un since he came...

Is Kim Jong-Un a Reformer?
 Is Kim Jong-Un a Reformer? 
Sep 4, 2012 1:11 PM CDT

Is Kim Jong-Un a Reformer?

Signs point to the potential for actual change in North Korea

(Newser) - Don't get your hopes up too high, but Kim Jong Un has been sending signals that he could be a very different kind of ruler than his dad. Recent Kim speeches have included promises to "improve people's living standards," and even rebukes of other officials for...

China to North Korea: Loosen Up Those Markets

Powerful Pyongyang official visits Beijing

(Newser) - It's time for authoritarian North Korea to let in some free markets, urged Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today, following a rare meeting with a high-ranking North Korean official, reports Reuters . Wen and President Hu Jintao met yesterday with Jang Song Thaek, the powerful uncle of North Korea's young...

N. Korea Incensed Over 'Naughty' Joke

'Naughty' and 'Nice' Koreas in newspaper's medal count didn't go over well

(Newser) - When last we checked in on North Korea's Olympic experience, it was pitching a fit over a South Korean flag mix-up , and it seems its outrage has not since abated. Pyongyang's state-run media arm is absolutely shredding an Australian newspaper for jokingly referring to it as "Naughty...

Kim Jong Un Shows Off Wife
 Kim Jong Un Shows Off Wife 
Jul 26, 2012 6:55 AM CDT

Kim Jong Un Shows Off Wife

North Korean leader, Ri Sol Ju tour amusement park

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un is off the market and on the scene. The North Korean leader emerged with wife Ri Sol Ju yesterday, and whisked her off to that most-important of government duties: touring a newly opened amusement park (the amusingly named Rungna People's Pleasure Ground). The AP describes it...

Kim Jong Un Marries: Report
 Kim Jong Un Marries: Report 
Jul 25, 2012 7:58 AM CDT

Kim Jong Un Marries: Report

North Korean state TV names Ri Sol Ju his blushing bride

(Newser) - Sorry, ladies. Should you have been in the market for a pudgy world leader with a love of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies and Michael Jordan, you are officially out of luck. According to Voice of America correspondent Steve Herman , North Korean state TV reports that Kim Jong Un has married,...

Kim Plans Economic Overhaul in N. Korea

General's ouster paves way for reform: insider

(Newser) - After North Korea's top military leader was removed from the post, observers wondered why; now an explanation seems to be taking shape. Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho, seen as a close ally to Kim Jong Il, didn't want to see sweeping changes to the country's economy—but...

Kim Jong Un Promoted to Army's Top Rank

Cements his role atop North Korea's power structure

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un removed any doubt that he's No. 1 in North Korea today, by ascending to the rank of marshal of the army—right after ousting Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho , who had been the country's top military official and closely allied with Kim's father. Kim now...

Chief of N. Korea Military Removed Mysteriously

Officially gone because of illness, but analysts skeptical

(Newser) - The top general in the North Korean military has been removed from all of his posts, military and political, reports the BBC . Officially, Ri Yong Ho has left his positions because of illness, but North Korea-watchers are skeptical. "It's quite a rare case that the North promptly and...

Is Kim Jong Un Opening Up North Korea?

Fashion, honesty, markets hint at small changes in Pyongyang

(Newser) - Considering Kim Jong Un has spent much of the first months of his reign test-firing long-range missiles , threatening to kill South Korea's leaders , and generally being bellicose , could it be that the young dictator is actually ready to open North Korea? At least a little? Der Spiegel thinks so,...

Is Kim Jong Un Dating a Pop Star?

Spotted with singer of 'Excellent Horse-Like Lady'

(Newser) - Celebrity gossip all the way from Pyongyang: A woman spotted with supreme leader Kim Jong Un recently isn't his sister, as earlier reports suggested. Instead, she has been identified as a pop star his late father once refused to let him see, the Daily Mail reports. Hyon Song Wol,...

North Korea's Kim Spotted With Mystery Woman

Speculation swirls whether woman is Kim Jong Un's sister, wife

(Newser) - North Korea-watchers are wondering who the young woman who has been spotted at Kim Jong Un's side recently is. She could be his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, or perhaps his wife—it's not known whether Kim is married—but whoever she is, she was seen next to...

Disney Characters Dance for Kim Jong Un

First North Korea violates nuke pacts, now copyrights

(Newser) - Is North Korea's twenty-something leader Kim Jong Un going Hollywood? First he got a snazzy theme song , now Kim has allowed Disney characters in a public cultural presentation, reports the AP . Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Minnie, and other characters appeared on stage while footage from various Disney movies...

Kim Jong Un Gets ... a Theme Song

North Korea grooves to 'Onwards the Toward Final Victory'

(Newser) - Call him the disco dictator. Sure, twenty-something Kim Jong Un is the most powerful man in North Korea and the focus of some cracking documentaries , but what's a supreme leader without a theme song? Well, Kim at last has a glorious toe-tapper to get the masses grooving to his...

N. Korea Screws Up Threat Vs. South's Media

Threats include media coordinates, but locations all wrong

(Newser) - Pity North Korea: Even when, in typical grandiloquent style, it threatens the "fools, idiots, and blockheads" in the South Korean media with "a merciless sacred war," it manages to muck that up, reports the Wall Street Journal . Apparently the North got really peeved at South Korean media'...

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