north korea issues

Oh, there they are. https://in.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles/north-korea-unveils-monster-new-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-at-parade-idUSKBN26V01K Gigantic new ICBMs got shown off at a parade... going by size, the kind that the USA, UK, France, USSR/Russia, and China have has...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12478158/kim-jong-un-coma-sister-north-korea/ (YMMV)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53060620

I've heard many times that the war wasn't ended, only paused, and also that North Korea doesn't want the war to formally end. If the US President were to want to end the war, how would they go about it, and are there reasons to keep it at the current range of hostility?

The performance of single pair of figure skaters could alter politics in the Korean peninsula. As of today, NK has not qualified a single athlete for the 2018 games. Their best hope is the figure skating pair of Ryom/Kim who are now in Germany competing for 4 remaining slots. Results on...

BREAKING: North Korea's missile went down in the Sea of Japan after flying about 250 kilometers (155 miles). How serious is this incident?

According to ABC News Kim Jong Un of North Korea launched a missile. The missile promptly malfunctioned and didn't become airborne. The question on the minds of millions is "what next?". https://youtu.be/6VphG3VMNbg (Don't know how to post Youtube links here).

It seems like things have been escalating for some time. But this is the first time I heard the same kind of rhetoric from South Korea. In fact, it's almost the same thing NK said, about "reducing the country to ashes". (They really should fire that speech writer...) I had the first bad...

This is a pretty weird one http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-korea-japan-ghost-boats-1.3344976 Fishing boats carrying decomposed corpses have washed ashore in Japan in recent weeks, leading to speculation they are rickety North Korean vessels that have strayed dangerously far from port under...

I just saw this New York Times Article on a soldier that apparently went into China to try and steal food. I'm wondering how indicative this is that things might get even more desperate there if they can't feed solders. It seems to me this is some indication that the Great Un could lose...

Over the last week, reports out of N. Korea have indicated that the Dear Leader is "ill", has not been seen in public, may be suffering from gout or perhaps alcoholism, or may have already been deposed. This morning, there are reports of a surprise visit to the South by two top N.Korean...

North Korea calls U.S. "a living hell" But far worse are the words they had for President Obama!

http://www.uriminzokkiri.com This is not a joke. This is North Korean Official Web site. I got it from a UK news service: It is available in a few languages. Chinese, English and Russian, of course http://www.uriminzokkiri.com/index.php?ptype=english Read their "reports" There is also a...

A video from North Korea featuring a North Korean dreaming of blowing an American city to hell with nukes (Don't know how to embed YouTube videos...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/north-korea-launches-long-range-rocket-un-to-discuss-sanctions/story-e6frg6so-1226535228342 What do people think?

So I'm reading a book review on a survivor from a North korean prison camp. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/books/escape-from-camp-14-by-blaine-harden.html It sounds just awful. I'm sure you've all read similar stories. I have a question. How does this mess end? I can't think of any good...

I don't know if this belongs in the USA Politics thread or here (it concerns the US to an extent, but in relation to N.Korea, so Mods move if you wish) I am kinda at my wits end about North Korea. The people are starving to death, their leadership is nuts, and China isn't doing much but...

Link. First, I don't buy it. This is not a "breakthrough" until inspectors show up, and genuine changes begin. Presently, North Korea uses CANDU reactors which produce enriched plutonium, (IIRC: If someone has better info, please post it.) There's no guarantee that DPRK will actually open...

So sayeth the BBC. As a reward, Best Korea gets a food aid package from the US. I know North Korea has a long history of saying one thing and doing another, but I have a hard time seeing how this is not a good thing. I hope it's a sign that the new leadership is about to turn a new page in...

News organizations are reporting North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died, as reported by state-run TV. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693

North Korea: One of the Happiest Places on Earth? Evidences More evidences :D

Semi-dated (Must have been written around 2004) interesting read on the North's Military Capabilities. Link. "N Korea Military Tactics In A War With US" Come on. North Korea is Total GDP is 94th in the world and it's per capita 1900$. I doubt they could afford it. I was always under the...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_korea_north1 are they really gonna do this? NK really is cruisin' for a bruisin'. Maybe its time they finally get it. If they fire one single missile, and its trajectory is within 1,000 feet of an American ship or plane, I say we blow these **** ers back to...

That was back in 2007. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IL08Ak01.html We are nearly 2011. Are the Iranians any closer?

http://www.nkmissions.com/10part_report/Articles/Worst%20of%20the%20Worst%20Why%20North%20Korea%20is%20No_%201.htm Christopher Hitchens says it is. Millions of dead and starving people and a totalitarian government. The North Koreans are racists and they hate America and Japan. They want to...

World politics? Science? Current events? Feel free to move.... Yahoo news reports this morning that high levels of radiation in the form of Xenon gas have been detected near the North Korean border: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100621/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_nuclear The Koreans are claiming a...

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/13/nkorea.talks/index.html One more step in the right direction. I think I can predict NK will try to stall for time again, but it's facing up to the inevitable, I think.

The semi-annual North Korean tantrum has started again. Now their version of "pay attention to me" is a nuke test. The more they go off the reservation the more it pisses off the whole world in general. Moreso it cheeses off their neighbors, especially China, who is getting more and more...

Hat tip: JustOneMinute

So, there are claims North Korea has nukes, that Iran is just about to develop them, and the US has just blown multiple billions on the place that didn't have them. Go figga.