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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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