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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
TopicKim Jong Un

Topic: Kim Jong Un

Kim Jong Un says North Korea has ruled out possibility of unification with South Korea

In speech ahead of New Year, he said US policy is making war inevitable, ordered military to prepare to 'pacify entire territory of South Korea', with nuclear bombs if necessary.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un orders military to ‘accelerate’ war preparations, reports Al Jazeera

According to KCNA, Kim also stated that ‘military situation’ on Korean peninsula had become ‘extreme’ as result of ‘unprecedented’ confrontations between North Korea and the US.

North Korea makes rare mention of dissenting votes in elections even as 99% back candidates

Voter turnout slightly dipped to 99.63% from 99.98% 4 years ago–a sign analysts say could indicate minor weakening in state control in a country where voting is considered mandatory.

Spy satellite North Korea’s exercise of ‘right to self defence’, says Kim Jong-Un

Kim’s remark reportedly came during his visit to the country's National Aerospace Technology Administration.

Russia military can modernise North Korea forces. US must draw attention to this growing axis

A Russia-North Korea axis complicates the security picture both in Ukraine and on the Korean peninsula.

World has pushed Kim and Putin closer. Worried China will fish in troubled waters

Chinese President Xi Jinping has not yet reacted to Kim-Putin meeting, but he would be in a dilemma. China won't be happy with North Korea’s renewed relations with Russia.

North Korea fires two ballistic missiles just before Kim Jong Un met Vladimir Putin in Russia

Nuclear-armed North has conducted regular launches of everything from short-range, cruise missiles to massive intercontinental ballistic missiles that can strike continental US.

Putin and Kim meet in Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia’s most modern space facility

The cosmodrome, which came into service in 2016, is in the Amur region of Russia's Far East, not far from the Russian border with China.

Pink couches, bedroom, office — what is inside Kim Jong Un’s armoured train

Since becoming leader in late 2011, Kim has used a train to visit China and Vietnam, as well as his previous trip to Russia to meet Putin in 2019.

Kim Jong Un appears to have departed for Russia for summit with Putin, says South Korea’s YTN

On Monday, Russia’s Interfax reported Kim was expected to visit the Far East ‘in the coming days’. The trip would be Kim’s first visit abroad in more than 4 years.

On Camera

3 survey results that tell us what Indians think about democracy — and it’s not a simple story

The search for a permanent and coherent popular meaning of democracy is futile. The Pew report underlines this ever-evolving tendency of popular democracy in the Indian context.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

Indian Coast Guard’s pollution control vessel visits Philippines, Vietnam, and Brunei

The ICG Samudra Paheredar will be in the region for three days, visiting ports in Manila, Ho Chi Minh, and Muara.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.