The Independent employs journalists from around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, consider a contribution. Republican Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland claimed that Donald Trump looked down on the people of South Korea in front of his wife, who is South Korean. Hogan made the …
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Prosecutors in Seoul have launched an investigation into Kim Jong Un’s sister about Pyongyang’s move to blow up a liaison office last month, authorities said Thursday. Prosecutors in the Seoul Central District received a criminal complaint against Kim Yo Jong from a Seoul-based lawyer and began the investigation, a spokeswoman …
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North Korea has repeated that it has no immediate plans to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States unless Washington rules out what it describes as “hostile” policies towards Pyongyang. Saturday’s statement by North Korea’s first deputy foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, came after former US President Donald Trump’s national …
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un applauded the Hermit Kingdom’s “brilliant success” in preventing the coronavirus from infiltrating its borders, once again claiming that no one in the lonely country has contracted the deadly virus, according to reports. Kim, unmasked, told the politburo on Thursday that the country, which closed …
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North Korean President Kim Jong Un was so furious at his wife’s “dirty and insulting” depictions in a deserter-initiated leaflet campaign against Pyongyang in South Korea that a liaison office with Seoul exploded and threatened to Take military action, according to a report Monday. The brochures, carried over the highly …
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