Seoul, May 8 (IANS) North Korea plans to deploy a new self-propelled howitzer along its border with South Korea by the end of this year, state media said Friday, as it seeks to bolster its defence capabilities.According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a munitions factory Wednesday to review production of a “new-type 155 mm self-propelled gun-howitzer” destined for three battalions to be stationed at a long-range artillery unit along the “southern…
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Pyongyang, May 3 (IANS) North Korea on Monday criticised Japan over its move to overhaul key security legislation, calling it “a brazen challenge to global peace and humanity.”The North’s criticism came as Japan has been seeking to revise its three key security documents — the National Security Strategy, National Defence Strategy and Defence Buildup Program — within this year.The effort is widely seen as a response to China’s growing military presence in the region and other regional security …
Seoul, April 15 (IANS) North Korea called on party members and citizens for increased loyalty to leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday, the birth anniversary of state founder Kim Il-sung, highlighting the two leaders’ shared people-centered policies.The ruling Workers’ Party of Korea’s newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, made the call in an article as the country marks the 114th birth anniversary of founder Kim Il-sung, the current leader’s grandfather.The newspaper said the founder’s policy of serving the peop…
Seoul, April 14 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a test-firing of strategic cruise and anti-warship missiles from the destroyer Choe Hyon, stressing the country’s top priority is to bolster a nuclear war deterrent ‘without limit,’ state media reported Tuesday.North Korea conducted the launches of two strategic cruise missiles and three anti-warship missiles from the naval destroyer Sunday in its “operational efficiency test,” according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)….
Seoul, March 22 (IANS) North Korea is set to hold the first session of its new Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) on Sunday amid attention on whether the regime will codify its hostile policy toward South Korea in its constitution. The parliamentary session comes after new deputies were selected following last month’s Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.The country’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Tuesday the session will be held in Pyongyang “to deliberate on the election …
Seoul, March 4 (IANS) North Korea will elect representatives to its parliament, the Supreme People’s Assembly, later this month, state media said Wednesday, as a follow-up step after a recent party congress.The election of representatives to the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) will be held March 15, the Korean Central News Agency said, citing a decision by the parliamentary standing committee.The formation of a new parliament will follow a weeklong congress of the ruling Workers’ Party of K…
Seoul, Feb 28 (IANS) Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was confirmed to have taken the post of director of the general affairs department of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), according to state media on Saturday.Kim was promoted to a party department chief at the WPK’s plenary meeting on Monday, held in the midst of the ninth party congress that concluded a weeklong run on Wednesday, but details of her official title were not disclosed at that time.But …
Seoul, Feb 27 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has used the latest party congress as an occasion for consolidating his base for a long-term grip on power, effectively declaring the start of his own era, Seoul’s unification ministry said Friday.In an assessment of North Korea’s ninth party congress that concluded its seven-day run Wednesday, the ministry said in his 15th year in office, the incumbent leader declared “the Kim Jong-un era in a full sense.”At the first party congress in five y…
Seoul, Feb 26 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has warned that ‘terrible retaliatory attacks’ will be carried out against any force committing hostile military acts against his country during a military parade marking a key party congress, state media reported on Thursday.Kim made the remarks at the nighttime parade at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Wednesday as the high-profile ruling party gathering drew to a close that day, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).”Our arm…
Seoul, Feb 24 (IANS) The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Yo-jong, has been promoted to department head at the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea during the ongoing party congress, state media reported on Tuesday.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published a press release from the first plenary meeting of the ninth central committee of the ruling party, naming Kim Yo-jong as one of the 17 newly elected department directors of the party’s new central committee.She was previ…