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Kim Jong Un Marries: Report
 Kim Jong Un Marries: Report 
Jul 25, 2012 7:58 AM CDT

Kim Jong Un Marries: Report

North Korean state TV names Ri Sol Ju his blushing bride

(Newser) - Sorry, ladies. Should you have been in the market for a pudgy world leader with a love of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies and Michael Jordan, you are officially out of luck. According to Voice of America correspondent Steve Herman , North Korean state TV reports that Kim Jong Un has married,...

Kim Plans Economic Overhaul in N. Korea

General's ouster paves way for reform: insider

(Newser) - After North Korea's top military leader was removed from the post, observers wondered why; now an explanation seems to be taking shape. Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho, seen as a close ally to Kim Jong Il, didn't want to see sweeping changes to the country's economy—but...

Kim Jong Un Promoted to Army's Top Rank

Cements his role atop North Korea's power structure

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un removed any doubt that he's No. 1 in North Korea today, by ascending to the rank of marshal of the army—right after ousting Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho , who had been the country's top military official and closely allied with Kim's father. Kim now...

Chief of N. Korea Military Removed Mysteriously

Officially gone because of illness, but analysts skeptical

(Newser) - The top general in the North Korean military has been removed from all of his posts, military and political, reports the BBC . Officially, Ri Yong Ho has left his positions because of illness, but North Korea-watchers are skeptical. "It's quite a rare case that the North promptly and...

Is Kim Jong Un Opening Up North Korea?

Fashion, honesty, markets hint at small changes in Pyongyang

(Newser) - Considering Kim Jong Un has spent much of the first months of his reign test-firing long-range missiles , threatening to kill South Korea's leaders , and generally being bellicose , could it be that the young dictator is actually ready to open North Korea? At least a little? Der Spiegel thinks so,...

Is Kim Jong Un Dating a Pop Star?

Spotted with singer of 'Excellent Horse-Like Lady'

(Newser) - Celebrity gossip all the way from Pyongyang: A woman spotted with supreme leader Kim Jong Un recently isn't his sister, as earlier reports suggested. Instead, she has been identified as a pop star his late father once refused to let him see, the Daily Mail reports. Hyon Song Wol,...

North Korea's Kim Spotted With Mystery Woman

Speculation swirls whether woman is Kim Jong Un's sister, wife

(Newser) - North Korea-watchers are wondering who the young woman who has been spotted at Kim Jong Un's side recently is. She could be his younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, or perhaps his wife—it's not known whether Kim is married—but whoever she is, she was seen next to...

Disney Characters Dance for Kim Jong Un

First North Korea violates nuke pacts, now copyrights

(Newser) - Is North Korea's twenty-something leader Kim Jong Un going Hollywood? First he got a snazzy theme song , now Kim has allowed Disney characters in a public cultural presentation, reports the AP . Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Minnie, and other characters appeared on stage while footage from various Disney movies...

Kim Jong Un Gets ... a Theme Song

North Korea grooves to 'Onwards the Toward Final Victory'

(Newser) - Call him the disco dictator. Sure, twenty-something Kim Jong Un is the most powerful man in North Korea and the focus of some cracking documentaries , but what's a supreme leader without a theme song? Well, Kim at last has a glorious toe-tapper to get the masses grooving to his...

N. Korea Screws Up Threat Vs. South's Media

Threats include media coordinates, but locations all wrong

(Newser) - Pity North Korea: Even when, in typical grandiloquent style, it threatens the "fools, idiots, and blockheads" in the South Korean media with "a merciless sacred war," it manages to muck that up, reports the Wall Street Journal . Apparently the North got really peeved at South Korean media'...

30 North Korean Officials Die in 'Car Crashes'

And regime's nuke ready for testing, maybe tomorrow

(Newser) - Thirty North Korean officials who took part in talks with South Korea were either executed or died in "staged traffic accidents" for failing to improve relations, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group's annual report found that another 200 were arrested in January as the regime transferred...

North Korea: We Could Defeat US In 'Single Blow'

Top military official boasts of 'powerful modern weapons'

(Newser) - If bluster were power, North Korea would have taken over the world this week—and today it's boasting that it could pretty much do just that. One of the nation's top military officials today bragged that his nation "is armed with powerful modern weapons" that "can...

North Korea to Launch 3rd Test 'Soon'

'Preparations are almost complete,' source says

(Newser) - North Korea isn't done thumbing its nose at the world, and is now preparing to launch a third nuclear weapons test, a senior source tells Reuters . When asked if North Korea was planning another nuclear test, following its much-condemned 2006 and 2009 demonstrations, the official replied, "Soon. Preparations...

North Korea Warns It May Retaliate

Because US cut food aid, all deals are off, says Pyongyang

(Newser) - North Korea says it may retaliate after its failed rocket test prompted the US to cut off food aid . Pyongyang holds that the launch was peaceful, and that Washington's move invalidated a deal requiring the North to halt nuclear and missile tests. "We have thus become able to...

Kim Gives 1st Public Speech
 Kim Gives 1st Public Speech 
HAPPY B-DAY, KIM IL SUNG
Apr 15, 2012 9:43 AM CDT

Kim Gives 1st Public Speech

Great spectacle designed to show military might, support of new leader

(Newser) - That whole rocket launch may not have worked out so well, but such minor inconveniences didn't stop North Korea from putting on a display of pomp for the occasion of founder Kim Il Sung 100th birthday that belied the nation's enduring poverty. Kim Jong Un himself surprised the...

Rocket Failure? Kim Jong Un Still Promoted

And North Korea re-confirms 'military-first' policy

(Newser) - If at first you don't succeed, bomb, bomb again. In the wake of its failed rocket launch , North Korea is doubling down on its "military-first" policy, promoting 20-something Kim Jong Un to first secretary of the powerful National Defense Commission—that officially makes him the country's leader,...

North Korea Admits Rocket a Dud
 North Korea: OK, 
 Rocket Was a Dud 
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Apr 13, 2012 7:59 AM CDT

North Korea: OK, Rocket Was a Dud

Satellite 'failed to enter preset orbit,' Pyongyang says

(Newser) - In a rare concession to reality, the North Korean regime has admitted that its rocket launch was not a complete and resounding success. "The Earth observation satellite failed to enter its preset orbit," the state-run Korean Central News Agency admitted hours after the rocket fell apart within 90...

Kim Jong Un to Korean Troops: Sink Enemies

North Korean leader is hell-bent on rocket test, warns against interference

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un has a message for anyone who would mess with North Korea's planned rocket test (ahem, America and South Korea): We will "send all the intruders into the bottom of the sea." Bluntly underscoring again that his father's flair for the dramatic did not...

N. Korea to South: We&#39;ll Attack
 N. Korea to South: We'll Attack 
ON EVE OF WAR GAMES
Feb 26, 2012 8:36 AM CST

N. Korea to South: We'll Attack

Kim Jong Un vows retaliatory strike if US or South intrude '.001 millimeter'

(Newser) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked, state media said today, a day before the annual South Korean-US military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal. South Korean and US officials have said the 12-day, largely computer-simulated war games are defensive...

North Korea Punishes 'Insincere' Mourners

Crocodile tears for Kim result in forced labor, source says

(Newser) - North Koreans whose mourning of their Dear Leader lacked enthusiasm have been sent to join the 200,000 of their countrymen already in labor camps, according to Daily NK . The South Korea-based website, citing sources in the North, says people who either skipped mourning sessions for Kim Jong Il or...

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