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North Korea: Kim Jong Un orders military boost to 'overwhelm any hostile forces'
Friday 24 June 2022

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to strengthen the country's defence capabilities, state media has reported.

He "examined and approved an important issue of providing a military guarantee for further strengthening the country's war deterrent", the North's official news agency KCNA said.

The announcement came at the end of a three-day meeting that was being closely watched by the West due to concerns the country could launch its first nuclear test in five years.

US and South Korean officials have warned it could happen at "any time".

"(Kim) stressed the need for the entire army to... consolidate in every way the powerful self-defence capabilities
for overwhelming any hostile forces," KCNA said.

It added that Ri Pyong Chol, who has been leading missile development for North Korea, had been chosen as vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission.
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North Korea facing worst food shortage since '90s famine, report says
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North Korea is undergoing the worst period of food insecurity it has faced since a mass famine devastated the country almost 30 years ago, reports the U.S.-based monitoring website 38 North.
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Kim Jong Un abruptly reappears after 36 days out of the spotlight; orders N Korea to prepare for war
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Kim Jong Un abruptly reappears after 36 days out of the spotlight and orders North Korea to 'prepare for war'

Sophia Ankel
Tue, February 7, 2023 at 7:16 AM EST · 2 min read

-- Kim Jong Un had not been seen in public for 36 days, fueling speculation about his health.

-- But North Korea's leader attended a meeting with military officials on Monday, reports said.

-- He was discussing war strategies as tensions rise around the Korean peninsula, the reports said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un abruptly reappeared after 36 days out of the spotlight as he ordered his country to "prepare for war," according to multiple reports.

Kim was photographed presiding over a meeting of the central military commission of the ruling Workers' Party on Monday, Reuters reported. ... His presence marked the first time he was back in the public eye after more than a month for reasons that have not been made public.

His disappearance raised questions about his health from multiple news outlets. Kim's Jong Un's longest-ever break from the spotlight was in 2014, when he was not seen for 40 days.

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Before reappearing on Monday, Kim was last seen in another government meeting on January 2, where it was announced that a top military official, Pak Jong Chon, had been fired and replaced, Reuters reported at the time.

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North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama

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Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas.

The footage, which appears to have been filmed in 2022, shows two 16-year-old boys handcuffed in front of hundreds of students at an outdoor stadium.

It also shows uniformed officers reprimanding the boys for not "deeply reflecting on their mistakes".

South Korean entertainment, including TV, is banned in the North.

Despite that, some are prepared to risk severe punishment to access K-dramas, which have a huge global audience.

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First North Korea spy satellite is ‘alive’ and being controlled, experts say

Thu 29 Feb 2024 01.38 GMT

North Korea’s first spy satellite is “alive”, space experts have said, after detecting changes in its orbit that suggested Pyongyang was successfully controlling the spacecraft – although its capabilities remain unknown.

After two fiery failures, North Korea successfully launched the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit in November. Pyongyang’s state media claimed it has photographed sensitive military and political sites in South Korea, the US and elsewhere, but has not released any imagery. Independent radio trackers have not detected signals from the satellite.

“But now we can definitely say the satellite is alive,” Marco Langbroek, a satellite expert at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.

From 19-24 February, the satellite conducted manoeuvres to raise its perigee, or the lowest point in its orbit, to 497 km from 488 km (308.8 miles from 303.2 miles), Langbroek said, citing data from the US-led Combined Space Operations Center.

“The manoeuvre proves that Malligyong-1 is not dead, and that North-Korea has control over the satellite – something that was disputed,” he said.

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Images show North Korea sealing its border with China
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North Korea has used the Covid-19 pandemic to seal up its northern border with China, new images from a leading human rights group show.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) describes a situation which has seen "intensifying repression", with "drastically reduced" cross-border movement and trade.

In the research, North Koreans spoke of the increasingly restrictive measures.

UN member states should "immediately address" North Korea's isolation and humanitarian crisis, HRW stresses.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reinforced a crackdown on border security in recent years, coinciding with the pandemic.
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