Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s first speech to the public has drawn the hermit kingdom back into the spotlight with a focus on his youth and deadly nuclear arsenal. Propaganda in North Korea has raised the youngest Kim to the heights of supreme status shared only by his father, the late Kim Jong-il, and grandfather, the […]
Read MoreSouth Korea’s staging of wargames exercises on Yeonpyeong Island one year after the North’s artillery bombardment of the island has provoked the belligerent hermit state to issue a threat of a “sea of fire” upon the South if it does not cease its provocative exercises immediately. The attack on Yeonpyeong Island over one year ago […]
Read MoreThe journal World Affairs, published biweekly by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, revealed such interesting tidbits as Kim Il-sung’s having died upon learning of the death of a comrade and his pursuit of nuclear weapons since the 1950’s. Kim Il-sung, father of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, is revered in North Korea as the Eternal […]
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