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North Korea – a beginner’s guide
North Korea is prone to extreme rhetoric, so should current threats be a matter for concern, and how did we get to this current impasse anyway?
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South Korean soldiers are killed after North Korea fires dozens of artillery shells across its maritime border prompting a return of fire. Lindsey Hilsum asks whether it shows a change in policy.
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North Korea is prone to extreme rhetoric, so should current threats be a matter for concern, and how did we get to this current impasse anyway?
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You may have missed the Dear Leader’s birthday earlier this week. They celebrated with synchronised swimmers performing to martial music and a festival of the kimjongilia, the flower named after North Korea’s “peerlessly brilliant commander”. On the day North Koreans were singing happy birthday to Kim Jong Il, I was chairing a discussion at the…
We were offered a rare glimpse of life in the secretive state, but seeing is not always believing.
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Kim Jong-un, Jose Mourinho and Jacob Rees-Mogg in a cheese-rolling contest, watched with bemused horror by Steve McFadden, best known as Phil Mitchell from EastEnders. The crazy world of internet sensation Cold War Steve, whose absurd collages portray a dystopian image of Britain’s future. His satirical take on Brexit has won over staunch Remainers and disillusioned Leavers alike.…
Next month’s summit with the North Koreans was supposed to be a foreign policy triumph for President Trump. He said his threats of military action, often in tweets aimed the leader he mocked as “little rocket man”, coupled with sanctions, had driven Kim Jong-un to discuss abandoning his nuclear ambitions. But today – after the…
North Korea has suspended talks with South Korea and threatened to cancel an historic summit between Kim Jong-un and President Trump, saying it wasn’t interested in a one-sided demand to give up its nuclear weapons. Mr Trump said he hadn’t been notified about any threat and would still insist on North Korea’s denuclearisation.
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