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TopicKim Jong Un

Topic: Kim Jong Un

North Korea locks down city following report on the first suspected case of Covid

The person illegally returned to North Korea on 19 July across the demarcation line with South Korea, prompting govt to launch a probe into the military unit responsible.

Kim Jong Un’s unfinished hospital shows sanctions are biting

Despite talks with US, China & South Korea, Kim still hasn’t achieved the sanctions relief he wanted in exchange for any offers to scale back North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

Kim Jong Un scolds North Korea cadres for complacency on coronavirus

Kim met with top officials in what was the North Korean leader's first appearance to include photo evidence since 8 June, according to NK News.

Kim Jong Un’s erratic behaviour shows North Korea is stuck

Two years since a flurry of summits with South Korean President Moon Jae In, US President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping, Kim still hasn’t achieved relief from sanctions.

India-Pakistan Balakot tensions were never really a crisis ‘in substance’: Ex-US NSA Bolton

John Bolton’s memoir ‘The Room Where It Happened’, which releases Tuesday, recounts incidents of 26 February 2019, when President Trump was in Vietnam to meet Kim Jong-un.

Kim Jong Un shows how little has changed between North and South Korea

Kim Jon Un's shocking act of destruction appears to be a part of a calculated gamble to force the South Korean president to break with US and support North Korea.

North Korea says it sees no benefit from engaging with Trump

In the two years since the Trump-Kim meet, US has shown that it’s aiming for the 'isolation and suffocation' of the country, North Korea said.

North Korea says it’s cutting communications with South Korea

The move comes as North Korea has turned a cold shoulder to South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and his offers to restore economic and trade ties between the neighbours.

Covid outbreak on North Korea border with China raises doubts over its virus toll

Little is known about the Covid-19 measures being taken by North Korea, which shut its borders when cases surged in China, and has yet to confirm any infections.

North Korea backs China’s Covid actions as Kim Jong Un wishes Xi Jinping ‘good health’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a verbal message congratulating Xi and wished him well as his govt moved to win a final victory over the pandemic.

On Camera

Violence over Osman Hadi is about Islamist Bangladesh. India-baiting is a distraction

The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.