Tag Archives : Pyongyang

North Korea has announced that it has begun the ‘last phase’ in the process of enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons. At the same time, the North Korean communist regime said it is also into the parallel process of extracting plutonium from the nuclear fuel rods stored at its Yongbyon reactor. The North Korean delegation at the UN in a letter [...]

The impact of the UN sanctions meted against North Korea after its last nuclear test in May has brought the communist regime to the point of using ‘smile diplomacy,’ a significantly huge shift from its erstwhile nuclear diplomacy and ballistic missile diplomacy a few months ago. Pyongyang seems to be diplomatic these days with its ‘series of [...]

North Korea takes a confident stance regarding its nuclear weapons program. According to the country’s state media, “Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage.” This brings yet another worry to anti-nuclearization critics of the communist regime. Now that ‘North Korea has entered [...]

Pyongyang has proven its nuclear doggedness. In spite of tremendous international criticism that puts North Korea in a pariah state, it has gone ahead to test nuclear and ballistic missile weapons. Add to that is its ‘nuclear technology proliferation to terrorist-supporting states,’ plus its mounting human-rights abuses. Those opposed to North [...]

The dividing line with China, which extends along 1.400 kilometers, it is one of those most watched of the world, but, also, one of the most permeable and capitalist, in spite of the thousands of soldiers parked in their proximities, due to the tremendous economical differences between both the sides. Smuggling of every type of goods, women’s [...]

North Korea demands an apology from the UN Security Council for condemning its recent rocket launch, and threatens to carry out further nuclear tests in response to UN sanctions. A committee of the UN Security Council also earlier imposed sanctions on three firms linked to the North Korean military for alleged involvement in the recent launch of a [...]

While people were paranoid about North Korea’s nuclear warhead launch capability via long-range missiles, the country had been secretly working on reducing its nuclear warheads’ size to fit their loading on medium-range missiles. What’s more, the country has also developed capability for mobile launchers that can escape detection. Experts confirm [...]

After severe criticism by the UN Security Council of its recent rocket launch, North Korea angrily threatened to ignore all international negotiations for it to halt its nuclear program. The communist regime has even threatened to enable once more its nuclear reactor. The country rejected the UN resolution, saying that it will no longer participate [...]

While Pyongyang says it successfully launched a rocket, Russia says that North Korea did not put the satellite in orbit. North Korea’s defiance over launching a rocket in spite of much disapproval from such countries as South Korea, US, Japan, China, and Russia came in the midst of speculations that the launch was part of North Korea’s burgeoning [...]