“The flight was the nuclear-armed state’s sixth satellite launch attempt, and the first since 2016. It was supposed to put North Korea’s first spy satellite in orbit.”
“In addition, the Defense Ministry is also taking other precautions, such as deploying Patriot missile defense batteries and Aegis destroyers with ballistic missile defense capabilities to waters around Japan’s Nansei Islands, an archipelago that stretches from the southern tip of the main island of Japanese Kyushu south to near Taiwan.”
“Rendered by North Korean artists working in state-owned studios – which by the 1990s had become some of the world’s largest producers of propaganda art commissioned by foreign governments – were paintings, reliefs, sculptures and statues depicting Egypt’s victories and glories.”
“The government announced it would start to investigate common-law marriages on February 22, when the Ministry of Social Security listed the practice among other anti-party and counter revolutionary social crimes.”
“For the first time since the 1980s a US Navy nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) will visit South Korea to help demonstrate the United States’ resolve to protect the country from a North Korean attack.”
“About 20 aspiring North Korean winter athletes were abruptly sentenced to three to five years of hard labor in prison camps after they were found to have used South Korean vocabulary and slang while playing a word game, sources in the country say.”
“The North Korean military has carried out multiple drills in recent weeks, including the test-firing of what state media described as an underwater nuclear-capable drone and the second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile this year”
“But four households that bought more than 100 kilograms (220 lbs.) of corn were accused of being ‘anti-socialists’ who helped fuel the country’s food crisis, and were sentenced last week to more than a year in a correctional labor camp.”
“Executions are widely carried out for acts that do not justify the death penalty, including drug crimes, distribution of South Korean videos, and religious and superstitious activities.”
“The KCNA reported that Kim noted ‘the field of atomic energy should expand in a prescient manner’ to ramp up ‘the production of weapon-grade nuclear material'” to ‘increase nuclear arsenals exponentially,’ and the institute should ‘put spurs to continuing to produce powerful nuclear weapons.'”
“The police and military launched an investigation, sealed off the whole city, and began searching house to house, the source said.”
“‘The ministry unveiled the program designed to strengthen the allies’ solidarity, demonstrate their militaries’ technological edge and highlight their focus on ‘realizing peace through strength via action,’ according to the ministry.”
“Citing the South Korean National Intelligence Services, the report said that the 10-year-old spends her free time swimming, skiing, and riding horses. She is educated at home in Pyongyang and has never attended a formal educational institution.”
“The latest launch comes a day after North Korean state media reported that more than 800,000 young North Koreans had volunteered to join the army to fight ‘US imperialists”. The young volunteers were determined to ‘mercilessly wipe out the war maniacs’ and joined the army to ‘defend the country’, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.”
“‘I think what’s important for people to understand is, one, deterrence continues to work,’ Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters at a daily Department of Defense press briefing.”
“The U.S. had warned of such a dire consequence of a nuclear attack by North Korea after Pyongyang enacted a new law that it said would allow preemptive use of its nuclear weapons in case of a contingency.”
“While strengthening its monitoring and vigilance, our military is maintaining a full readiness posture in close cooperation with the United States,”
“We keep our eye on the restless military moves by the U.S. forces and the South Korean puppet military and are always on standby to take appropriate, quick and overwhelming action at any time according to our judgment,”
“The study by the Transitional Justice Working Group said radioactive materials could have spread across eight cities and counties near the site, where more than 1 million North Koreans live, and where groundwater is used in everyday lives including drinking.”
“’The surprise ICBM launching drill … is an actual proof of the DPRK strategic nuclear force’s consistent efforts to turn its capacity of fatal nuclear counterattack on the hostile forces into the irresistible one,’ the state news agency KCNA said”
“As the North defined us as an ‘undoubted enemy’ at the plenary meeting of the ruling party’s Central Committee in December 2022, and continues to pose a military threat without renouncing its nuclear program, the North Korean regime and military ― the executor of that (threat) ― are our enemy,”
“North Korea’s Kim Jong Un oversaw a major military parade showcasing a record number of nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missiles, state media reported Thursday, including what analysts said was possibly a new solid-fuelled ICBM.”
“The North Korean foreign ministry said the stepping-up of military drills from South Korea’s allies could turn the Korean Peninsula into a ‘huge war arsenal and a more critical war zone.’ It said North Korea is prepared to respond to any short-term or long-term military challenge with nuclear force.”
“While in more plentiful times, the well-fed soldiers were easily distinguishable from malnourished prisoners, that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, reflecting poorly on the military’s image.”
“North Korea has publicly executed three teenagers by firing squad – two for watching and distributing South Korean movies and one for murdering his stepmother – two sources who witnessed it told Radio Free Asia.”
“A U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bomber joined a South Korea-U.S. joint air drill Saturday, one day after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the East Sea, military officials said.”
“SEOUL/TOKYO, Nov 18 (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday that Japanese officials said had sufficient range to reach the mainland of the United States and that landed just 200 kilometres (130 miles) off Japan.”
“But China, North Korea’s closest ally, and Russia, whose relations with the West have severely deteriorated over its invasion of Ukraine, told the UN meeting that the US was to blame for the ongoing tension with North Korea.”
“The North Korean aircraft were detected in multiple inland areas and both of North Korea’s coasts for about four hours starting about 11:00 a.m. local time, said South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.”
“It was the first time a ballistic missile had landed near the South’s waters since the peninsula was divided in 1945, and the most missiles fired by the North in a single day. South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response.”
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