Moscow, July 19 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday thanked the North Korean authorities for their decision to send soldiers from the Korean People’s Army to participate in the ‘liberation of the Kursk region,’ local media reported.During a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Son-hui, President Putin expressed gratitude for Russia’s support for the Joint Military Operation, Russia’s state-owned Tass news agency reported.”I would like to once again express my grati…
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Seoul, July 11 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un denounced corruption in the military as he attended a joint meeting of the ruling party, government and army, state media said Saturday.The rare meeting was held in Pyongyang on Friday “to give a warning to all sorts of anti-revolutionary, anti-socialist, anti-people acts going against the trend of the times,” the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in an English dispatch.In particular, the meeting addressed the case of Pak Hui-cho…
Seoul, July 9 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made more official appearances in the first six months of the year than in any first half since 2014, with military-related events reaching their highest level since he took power, data showed Thursday.Kim engaged in 92 official activities in the first half, nearly doubling from 50 the previous year, according to the North’s state media reports analysed by Yonhap News Agency and research by the Seoul-based Korea Institute for National Unificat…
Seoul, July 5 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen tests of strategic cruise missiles and other weapons from a new 5,000-tonne naval destroyer, ordering the warship to be commissioned into the Navy within two months, state media reported Sunday.Kim observed tests of cruise missiles, naval artillery, automatic guns, and electronic warfare means from the destroyer Kang Kon on Friday, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).In June last year, North Korea launched the destr…
Seoul, June 29 (IANS) South Korea said on Monday that it is maintaining close coordination with the United States on North Korea’s missile launches, after criticism arose over its delayed announcement of the North’s latest launch.The North’s state media said Friday that North Korea conducted tests of a new multiple rocket launcher and other key weapons the previous day, a launch that was overseen by its leader Kim Jong-un.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), however, did not disclose detai…
Los Angeles, June 26 (IANS) Hollywood actor Seth Rogen is set to direct his next movie again. The actor is returning to direction after 12 years. His last directorial was ‘The Interview’, and the actor feels the film “almost started a war”, reports ‘Female First UK’.The 44-year-old actor has made several TV projects since he helmed the 2014 motion picture, but he felt a “little gun-shy” about directing a film after the huge controversy caused by The Interview, in which he and James Fra…
Pyongyang, June 26 (IANS) North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has overseen tests of multiple firepower systems in a bid to modernise the country’s artillery and missile forces, the official Korean Central News Agency said Friday.The tests, on Thursday, involved the upgraded 240 mm-calibre 24-tubular multiple rocket launcher system, tactical ballistic missile, and 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer shells with an extended firing range, the report said.The upgraded rocket launcher system emplo…
Seoul, June 26 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen tests of a new multiple rocket launcher and other weapons, stressing the need to bolster the “deadly and destructive” offensive posture against the enemy, state media reported on Friday.North Korea conducted the weapons tests Thursday, the 76th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, in an apparent bid to demonstrate its ability to target major facilities in South Korea, which the North has labeled its “primary foe…
Seoul, June 24 (IANS) North Korea has commissioned a new 5,000-ton destroyer with leader Kim Jong-un voicing expectations that the Navy’s combat capabilities will be strengthened to a level “admirable beyond imagination,” state media reported on Wednesday.Kim made the remarks the previous day at a commissioning ceremony for the “new-type multi-mission” destroyer Choe Hyon at the western port of Nampho, reports Yonhap, quoting the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).The ceremony came as the North u…
Seoul, June 23 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for efforts to further increase his country’s nuclear arsenal “with a goal of overtaking the world,” Pyongyang’s state media reported Tuesday.According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) convened the second plenary meeting of its ninth central committee for three days from Saturday, presided over by leader Kim, to assess how the country’s policies have fared in the first half of the y…