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LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES ON NORTH KOREAN LEADER, KIM JONG-UN

Kim is not such a big Un! North Korean dictator looks to have shed a few pounds on tour of souvenir factory 

08/10/16 18:31

North Korea's Kim Jong-un appears to have shed a few pounds after new photos of the hermit state's supreme leader emerged. The fearsome dictator ballooned in weight after assuming control of the country in 2011 but pictures from Friday show Kim looking slightly slimmer than normal.The young leader, who took over the reclusive nation after his father after Kim Jong-il died, has yet to visit areas in the extremely impoverished north of the country after torrential rain caused severe flooding. ...read

08/10/16 01:26

They are also discussing supporting surgical strikes on the rogue state, said Chinese professor Zhe Sun at a security forum in Washington. Images of the nuclear test site show increased activity.

06/10/16 21:39

Johnson was asked if he knew the name of North Korea's dictator. ‘I do,’ he replied. But he did not say Kim Jong Un. ‘You want me to name,’ he said, ‘Really.’

05/10/16 18:51

Kim Jong-un's state newspaper condemned recent joint tests conducted by Seoul and Washington in the East Sea, and warned that North Korea was ready to retaliate.

05/10/16 10:48

President Park Guen-hye had previously urged citizens in North Korea to move to the 'bosom of freedom' in the South, prompting an angry response from North Korea's state media.

03/10/16 18:13

North Korea has reportedly seen a surge in incurable diseases and radiation deaths after it carried out its fifth nuclear test.

22/09/16 19:01

The plan, called the Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation, would 'directly target' key North Korean sites and the country's leadership, if any sign of a nuclear strike on South Korea was detected.

21/09/16 16:54

The two countries are to carry out the joint exercise in Alaska next month and use GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition, a kit that converts bombs that free-fall from planes into guided munitions.

20/09/16 10:51

The despot oversaw a ground test of a new rocket engine, and called for a satellite launch as soon as possible. Kim Jong Un expressed 'great satisfaction' with the test, at Sohae Space Center.

14/09/16 10:13

The epic gathering, in North Korea's capital Pyongyang, featured tens of thousands of civilians and military personnel gazing up at their leaders who were watching on from a balcony.

13/09/16 18:12

Pictures released today show the despot cheerfully surveying varieties of corn and rice grown on a state-run farm - despite 140,000 North Korean citizens being in 'urgent need of assistance' due to floods.

12/09/16 21:39

Officials in Seoul say South Korea's military has been placed on full combat readiness to respond to 'further nuclear tests, ballistic missile launches or land provocation' by the North.

10/09/16 01:33

For North Korean propagandists, the news the country had carried out a nuclear test was a glorious confirmation of Kim Jong-Un's might. But internet users were quick to mock the tubby tyrant.

09/09/16 23:23

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign says Friday's North Korean nuclear test revealed the 'calamitous diplomatic failure' of Hillary Clinton.

09/09/16 13:47

US, European and Chinese monitoring agencies are reporting a 5.0-5.3-magnitude quake near North Korea's nuclear test site amid fears it has conducted its second nuclear test this year.

08/09/16 15:17

Images taken in the North Korean capital Pyongyang show how high ranking officials drive around in gleaming Audis while ordinary workers have to struggle around the city on bicycles.

07/09/16 13:13

Satire towards the leader's regime 'will not be forgiven' according to a source, who said mass meetings have been arranged by central government authorities to issue warnings on citizens' everyday conversations.

01/09/16 14:54

Troops from North Korea's People's Army will be trained to enter enemy territory and, in the event of war, unleash their own nuclear bomb.

01/09/16 07:31

Ri Yong Jin was executed after he dozed off in a meeting addressed by Kim Jong-un, while former agriculture minister Hwang Min made a policy suggestion which was seen as undermining Kim.

28/08/16 22:51

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was worshipped by almost 150,000 adoring teenagers who had filled the world's largest stadium for a youth league mass rally in the country's capital, Pyongyang.

22/08/16 16:41

Kim Jong-un has launched a new TV on demand service in North Korea using a set top box called 'Manbang', which according to his officials means 'every direction' or 'everywhere'.

20/08/16 22:17

Olympic spectators were surprised to see what appeared to be the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, as he stuck his middle finger up at cameras in Rio and waved his controversial nation's flag.

20/08/16 14:18

South Korean media claim the un-named official and his family, who have been living in the west for 20 years, have defected along with a $400 million foreign currency slush fund owned by Kim Jong-un.

19/08/16 13:31

The impersonator posed in the stands before the evening session at the Rio Olympics began. He even adopted Jong-un's trademark swept back undercut hair style and his black two-piece army suit.

18/08/16 18:46

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has warned the United States he is closely watching for any signs of aggression and would respond by wiping out their bases across the Pacific.

18/08/16 18:15

Thae Yong-Ho, the number two at the North Korean embassy in Britain, is one of the highest ranking diplomats ever to defect to the South.

15/08/16 19:22

North Korea, which is ruled by tyrant Kim Jong-un, is encouraging its population to eat more dog meat by suggesting it contains more vitamins than chicken, beef, pork and duck.

04/08/16 14:49

Kim Jong Un has reportedly ordered space officials in North Korea to put a plan into place that will see them put more advanced satellites into orbit and even attempt a moon landing.

30/07/16 18:20

Undated photos have been released of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un smiling as he strolls around a newly-built fishing tackle factory in the country's capital, Pyongyang.

29/07/16 20:36

Six North Korean officials were killed following the defection of 13 workers at a North Korean-run restaurant in China. They had been responsible for the group that fled to the South.

28/07/16 23:31

Han Song Ryol (pictured) North Korea's top diplomat for US affairs has said that Washington has 'crossed the red' line and effectively declared war by putting Kim Jong-un on its list of sanctioned individuals.

27/07/16 23:39

The joint defence system coined by the U.S. and South Korea is to ensure security after missiles were launched by North Korea and sanctions were made against its leader for human rights abuse.

25/07/16 18:50

After a string of failures in recent months, North Korea tested two Musudan missiles with a range of up to 2,500 miles on Wednesday, one of which flew 250 miles into the Sea of Japan.

25/07/16 18:46

A North Korean submarine fired a ballistic missile which 'fell into the sea' during a botched weapons test. The Pentagon confirmed it tracked what it believed was a KN-11 sub-based missile.

25/07/16 12:28

The Communist dictator was in high spirits amid reports that North Korea's economy has shrunk or that Switzerland has imposed a UN ban on exporting luxury goods to his country.

20/07/16 22:08

The indecipherable announcements, the most recent of which occurred on Friday, echoed Cold War-era tactics used by the North to communicate missions with their spies based in South Korea.

14/07/16 16:52

Johnny Smith has thrown a social media hand grenade by morphing the two Kims from his Los Angeles studio and the graphic artist has been busy at work with other celebrity faces.

11/07/16 11:57

North Korea threatened Monday to take 'physical action' after Washington and Seoul announced they would deploy a sophisticated US anti-missile defence system.

07/07/16 20:19

Kim Jong-un has been accused of overseeing systematic human rights abuses and torture in North Korea according to the US State Department that has frozen all his American-based assets.

07/07/16 13:44

Images have emerged showing the everyday lives of the citizens of Pyongyang, from workers painting warships with no safety equipment to solemn queues of mourners carrying flowers.

05/07/16 10:23

Leader Kim Jong-Un hailed the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test as an 'eye-opening success', and claimed Pyongyang has the ability to strike Seoul and the US whenever.

05/07/16 10:19

Pyongyang fired four short-range rockets or missiles from near the eastern city of Hamhung just before 3.20pm (6.20am GMT) and landed in the East Sea (Sea of Japan).

04/07/16 17:54

The luxury barge, based in the North Korean port city of Wonsan, features a giant swimming pool, water slides and cabins filled with girls, it has been claimed.

02/07/16 17:55

Kim Jong-un met with Salvador Antonio Valdes Mesa, vice-president of the Council of State of Cuba and a special envoy of president Raul Castro and updated him on their mutual fight against the US.

01/07/16 15:53

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has piled on around six and a half stone since he took power four years ago, bingeing on food and drink, South Korea's spy agency said Friday.

30/06/16 21:36

Kim was made chairman of the Pyongyang State Affairs Commission, a new body established under a revised constitution which replaces the powerful National Defence Commission.

28/06/16 10:58

Tensions have intensified on the peninsula with South Korea and the US reportedly engaged in joint 'decapitation strike' exercises designed to simulate wiping out the North's leadership.

23/06/16 12:05

New photos have provided a rare glimpse inside a North Korean factory where workers are required to meet severe production goals during one of the country’s ‘speed campaigns’.

22/06/16 14:12

A Russian blogger travelled 300 miles along the North Korean border to spy over the fence into the secretive Communist state. He risked being shot or detained as an enemy agent.

15/06/16 14:03

The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said the hermit state could have made at least six more weapons since the end of 2014.

15/06/16 07:45

Alejandro Cao de Benos, who is the only Westerner working for north Korea's secretive regime, has allegedly been arrested in the eastern city of Tarragona, Spain, as part of a police operation.

14/06/16 18:53

Pyongyang Folk Village was completed in 2012, with Kim describing it as the brainchild of his deceased father Kim Jong-Il, but it construction was overseen by his executed uncle Jang Song-Thaek.

10/06/16 20:38

Kim Jong-un was photographed with his cigarette during a field guidance visit to a children's camp in North Korea's capital Pyongyang, according to the regime's news agency.

01/06/16 15:47

Donald Trump is getting a thumbs up from North Korea. An editorial in the state media outlet DPRK Today suggested that the election of The Donald could bring reunification to the Korean peninsula.

31/05/16 15:10

Military sources cited by local media in South Korea said the missile was a powerful, medium-range 'Musudan' that has already undergone three failed launches this year.

28/05/16 04:14

Ko Yong Suk, 60, is the sister of Kim Jong Il's third-wife Kim Yong Hui, the mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. She and her husband defected to the U.S. 18 years ago.

26/05/16 00:06

The tunnel (pictured) is in a new area of the Punggye-ri site, separate from three other tunnels which have been excavated or used for tests, a monitoring website said today.

20/05/16 23:19

Berating her brother as Kylie Jenner listens in, Kim hammers home the point that the couple are now expected to toe the Kardashian family line.

19/05/16 15:08

The North Korean leader is known as a heavy smoker, but has not been seen in public with a cigarette since a ballistic rocket test on March 15, local news reports.

18/05/16 21:57

Internet jokers were quick to pounce when Kim Jong Un released pores-and-all picture of himself, breaking with years of North Korean tradition to manipulate their images.

18/05/16 04:49

The GOP front-runner also said he would dismantle most of the Dodd-Frank banking law. Trump has hammered Kim Jong Un in the past but now says he wants to stop Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.

17/05/16 00:17

Kourtney Kardashian's sisters admitted they were getting freaked out over how close she was getting with their mom's boyfriend on Sunday's episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

12/05/16 00:22

Jong-un and 27 of his top officials - including a man who was believed to have been executed - appear in high definition portraits released to mark the end of the party conference in Pyongyang.

11/05/16 01:04

The vast parade at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, featured everything from floats bearing patriotic slogans to marchers with pompoms and flags celebrating the congress.

10/05/16 15:50

Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, was detained at Pyongyang airport on January before he was due to board a flight back to China after a five-day trip to North Korea.

10/05/16 13:22

Pyongyang staged a huge rally this morning, turning the North Korean capital's giant square into a sea of pink to celebrate a ruling party congress seen as a formal coronation for the 33-year-old dictator.

09/05/16 15:16

BBC Tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were held at Pyongyang Airport on Friday.

09/05/16 11:12

Kim Jong Un told the Workers' Party conference in Pyongyang that North Korea 'will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile forces use nuclear weapons'.

07/05/16 20:39

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is spending millions on Champagne, horses and make-up while his people starve. The UN says two million people are struggling on meagre hand-outs from the state.

07/05/16 00:04

North Korea, which in recent months has increased its pursuit of nuclear weapons, today held its first ruling party congress since the rule of tyrant Kim Jong-Un's grandfather, Kim Il-Sung.

06/05/16 20:17

Former sushi chef Kenji Fujimoto is one of the few non-North Koreans to have met Kim Jong-Un. He now sells his insights for cash - at the risk to his life.

05/05/16 18:52

The photos show builders, cyclists, businessmen and fishermen going about their lives in Pyongyang, where North Korea's ruling party is gathering for its biggest political congress for nearly 40 years.

03/05/16 14:04

Pyongyang says 12 workers from the secretive nation were abducted from a restaurant in China - but South Korea says they willingly defected.

03/05/16 08:55

While a laughing Kim Jong-Un watches from the sidelines, North Korean troops are seen 'flying' the paper planes up and down and across a giant map laid out on the ground.

03/05/16 00:35

Victor Cha has outlined the chilling scope of Pyongyang's combat capabilities in his book the Impossible State, which claims a devastating war could cost $1billion to fight.

01/05/16 17:40

All weddings and funerals have been cancelled for this week in North Korea as Kim Jong-Un prepares to lavishly celebrate his official coronation as leader.

29/04/16 18:50

Tens of thousands of North Koreans live in South Korea and China, and while they admit that their lives have improved, they long for home comforts, relatives and sometimes even Kim Jong-Un.

29/04/16 13:15

Kim Jong Un has brought back the so-called 'pleasure squad' of young girls who traditionally work as dancers, singers or servants for the country's leaders in North Korea.

28/04/16 15:33

North Korea fired an intermediate range ballistic missile on Thursday but it crashed. It is the second such failure in the run-up to next week's congress of North Korea's ruling party.

27/04/16 15:12

North Korea has built a half-size mock-up of the South's presidential palace at a firing range and is apparently planning to blow it up in a live firing drill. The Blue House is home to President Park.

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