A photo that makes North Korea look a lot less scary
North Korea loves to threaten to start World War III. In the last week alone, it has warned Japan that it might launch a preemptive nuclear strike against it and released a video detailing its plan for...
View ArticleWhy I just got called out by North Korean state media
North Korean state media has taken a break from photoshopping extra hovercrafts into its photos of military exercises to issue an official response to my recent post on reports that the Democratic...
View ArticleAmerica’s B-2 bomber ‘practice run’ may have also been about deterring South...
Two B-2 “Spirit” aircraft, nuclear-capable stealth bombers that are as wide as a 17-story building is tall, took off early on Thursday from an air force base just outside of Knob Noster, Mo. They flew...
View ArticleA very good sign that North Korea is bluffing about war
We’ve been here before. North Korea is threatening war, readying its military, issuing a series of increasingly ominous and categorical declarations about its intentions. It’s even cut a crucial...
View ArticlePhoto from Kim Jong Un’s war room reveals North Korea’s ‘U.S. mainland strike...
Update, 12:50 p.m., EDT: The Associated Press believes that this photo from North Korean state media may have been digitally altered, which has certainly happened before. If it were, that would seem to...
View ArticleNorth Korea almost certainly lacks basic technical capability to carry out...
North Korea is sending lots of signals that it’s about to start World War III. While there is a real risk that some misstep or miscalculation might accidentally start a conflict, and while it is...
View ArticleTexans mock Kim Jong Un’s apparent plan to strike Austin
North Korea’s big “U.S. mainland strike plan,” revealed in a photo from Kim Jong Un’s war room, appears to mark the American cities that Pyongyang would attack when it launches its promised war against...
View ArticleHere’s North Korea’s official declaration of ‘war’
A few notes about this document just released by North Korean state media. First, North and South Korea have technically been at a state of war since the Korean War began six decades ago. So, while...
View ArticleNorth Korea appoints ‘reformer’ to top leadership post (but don’t get your...
North Korea has appointed Pak Pong Ju, known as a reformer, as the country’s next premier, a job that officially makes him the head the national government. How big of a deal is this? Is Kim Jong Un...
View ArticleIs North Korea being more restrained than we think?
North Korea’s threats from the last week have included, among other things, launching “preemptive” nuclear strikes on South Korea and the United States. Its provocations included showing the world its...
View ArticleWhy North Korea’s bomb-grade plutonium plant might be good news
North Korea has vowed to restart the country’s only nuclear reactor, which it shuttered in 2007 as part of an international deal. The plant can produce enough plutonium for about one small nuclear...
View ArticleHere’s video from inside the Kaesong Industrial Complex, which North Korea...
The Kaesong Industrial Complex is a big commercial plant located just on the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone, staffed by South and North Koreans. It’s a source of cheap labor for the South...
View ArticleSorry, Anonymous probably didn’t hack North Korea’s intranet
Tech analysts are struggling to verify Anonymous’s latest alleged hack, in which the group claims it gained a trove of 15,000 passwords from a North Korean news and propaganda site and, more...
View ArticleHere’s the Japanese rock song so offensive it took North Korea’s focus off U.S.
From 1910 through its defeat at the end of World War II, Japan forced tens of thousands of Korean women into sexual slavery as “comfort women.” Korea was a Japanese colony at the time; since then, this...
View ArticleMap: This is how far those North Korean missiles can actually reach
North Korea has redeployed some of its missiles to the country’s eastern coast, a provocation and implicit warning that it just might carry through on some of its recent threats. How far can those...
View ArticleA gif that perfectly sums up North Korea’s military capability to strike the...
In assessing North Korea’s capability to carry out its threatened full-scale and potentially nuclear “strike plan” against the United States, we’ve looked at its missile range, its cyber espionage...
View ArticleMap pinpointing the seismic activity just detected along the Russia-North...
The U.S. Geological Service has detected a magnitude 6.2 seismic event just on the Russian side of the country’s border with North Korea. The closest North Korean town, Aoji Ri, is only 25 miles miles...
View ArticleS. Korean official predicted N. Korea urging embassy evacuations, said attack...
Today, North Korea urged a number of foreign embassies in Pyongyang to evacuate their staffs because the country would, according to the U.K.’s reading of the warning it received, “be unable to...
View ArticleHere’s the new music video North Korea made for Kim Jong Un
The new official North Korean tune, posted online this week, is titled some variation of “Let’s Defend General Kim Jong Un at the Cost of Our Lives” or “We Will Safeguard General Kim Jong Un With Our...
View ArticleIn sign of Chinese frustration with North Korea, ‘Daily Show’ clip mocking...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook “The Daily Show” is not big in China. But when the popular Chinese Web portal...
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