Kim Jong-un

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

Kim's army: Candid pictures reveal the men and women North Korea will rely on to fight America if war breaks out

07/12/17 15:02

06/12/17 18:08

While the games are usually an event reporters would be clamoring to cover, the hostilities on the Korean Peninsula have been enough to dissuade journalists from wanting to make the trip.

06/12/17 15:39

Time has named the women behind the #MeToo movement as their Person of the Year for 2017. The announcement was made Wednesday morning on the Today show.

06/12/17 12:31

With his plump hands in the pockets of his double-breasted winter coat, Kim Jong Un beams as he visits a brand new potato factory in Samjiyon, near the Chinese border.

05/12/17 19:54

Tokyo, which has a population of 9.3million, will conduct nuclear evacuation drills for the first time in case Kim Jong Un launches a ballistic missile attack from North Korea.

05/12/17 17:25

The White House has discussed using experimental CHAMP weapons, which fry enemy electronics using high-powered microwave beams, in any potential war with North Korea.

05/12/17 15:34

China has been staging military drills in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in recent days, the Air Force said, reportedly in response to the current US-South Korean joint exercise (pictured).

04/12/17 15:31

The finalists for the annual honor were revealed Monday morning on Today, with President Donald Trump once again in the running alongside two of his biggest political foes.

04/12/17 08:41

North Korea has today branded America and South Korea 'warmongers' the day before their largest-ever joint military exercise which could 'lead to a nuclear war'.

04/12/17 07:33

Around 30 defectors have fled across the border to South Korea from the Kilju region, close to the Punggye-ri site, where the leader has continued his father's furious testing since coming to power.

01/12/17 13:26

Troops cheered, laughed and smiled as a huge firework display lit up Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang following the successful test of the Hwasong-15 ballistic missile on Tuesday.

30/11/17 18:53

Kim Jong-Nam, 46, was carrying a dozen bottles of Atropine, an antidote to the VX nerve agent used to kill him, in his backpack, the Malaysian High Court in Kuala Lumpur heard today.

30/11/17 18:03

A new showroom in Seoul is offering safety from a potential nuclear war with a £20,000 fallout shelter that is equipped with everything a family of four needs to avoid death by atomic strike.

30/11/17 13:22

In a Thursday morning tweet, President Trump scoffed at the Chinese's attempt to rein in Kim Jong Un, while calling out the North Korean leader for keeping his people in poverty.

30/11/17 13:08

North Korea has released video footage of its new ICBM, the Hwasong-15, being launched from close to Pyongyang. The missile is the most powerful it has ever produced and can range most of the world.

30/11/17 10:55

The president took a rhetorical shot at the North Korean dictator on Wednesday, calling him 'a sick puppy' for blasting an intercontinental ballistic missile in Japan's direction.

30/11/17 01:45

North Korea’s launch of a new style of intercontinental ballistic missile demonstrated the regime now has the ability to hit ‘everywhere in the world’, the United States warned yesterday.

29/11/17 17:21

Dr David Baker told Mail Online that Kim Jong-un is taking a 'considerable risk' with each missile test because even an accidental strike on a neighbouring country would spark all-out war.

29/11/17 02:22

North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 1,000km (620 miles) before splashing down in the Sea of Japan. President Trump has said 'we will take care of it'.

27/11/17 19:07

Dozens were killed when North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's most powerful nuclear missile test yet caused buildings to collapse in North Hamgyong Province.

27/11/17 14:41

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov was speaking at the opening of the eighth annual Asian Conference of the Valdai discussion club in Seoul.

23/11/17 17:03

As well as the iconic governmental landmarks of The White House and The Pentagon, Manhattan, Guam, Kyoto and Tokyo are all earmarked by Kim Jong-un's North Korea as nuclear targets.

21/11/17 19:37

The tyrant was seen at the wheel of a lorry as he inspected facilities at the Sungri Motor Complex in North Korea's South Pyongan Province.

20/11/17 23:17

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly banned gatherings involving drinking and singing in new measures designed to increase control over the population.

20/11/17 18:48

The man spent a year imprisoned at the Tongrim disciplinary labour centre in North Pyongan Province and described how inmates suffered brutal beatings at the hands of their captors.

17/11/17 11:24

Satellite pictures, taken just weeks ago, show construction work and increased activity at North Korea's Sinpo South naval shipyard.

16/11/17 16:14

Japanese rescue teams would bring boats fleeing the Korean Peninsula into designated ports before checking individuals for criminal records and deporting anyone seen as a threat.

16/11/17 10:53

North Korea says that the situation around its country is the 'worst ever' and that the annual drills risk provoking a nuclear war. The US began its war games off Japan on Thursday.

16/11/17 09:18

North Korea has released a bellicose tirade against its chief antagonist Donald Trump, sentencing the commander-in-chief 'to death' for his insults against Kim Jong Un.

15/11/17 19:26

Jeremy Zidek, of Alaska's emergency planning committee, has warned citizens to stash food, water, medical supplies and anti-radiation pills in their homes in case of a nuclear attack.

15/11/17 19:21

Kim Jong-Un's North Korean Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun wrote that U.S. President Donald Trump had now been 'sentenced to death by the Korean people'.

15/11/17 17:14

An earthquake measuring magnitude 5.5 has hit off the southeastern coast of South Korea near Pohang in the North Gyeongsang Province prompting fears Kim Jong-un

15/11/17 15:55

The 58-year-old, from Louisiana and named only as Mr A, was arrested Monday trying to cross the heavily guarded DMZ, which is also littered with mines, while on a vigilante diplomatic mission.

15/11/17 13:38

If an 'illegal order' to strike North Korea is handed down, the military is 'obligated' to refuse it, a former commander of the Pentagon's nuclear weapons division told senators on Tuesday.

15/11/17 02:49

Kim Jong-un paused on his nuclear weapons programme to take a ride on a tractor in one of his agricultural factories. The North Korean dictator appeared delighted as he got behind the wheel.

13/11/17 21:48

DailyMailTV joined the Rear Admiral and crew of the USS Carl Vinson as the huge warship left its port in San Diego for a series of exercises ahead of its deployment to North Korea.

13/11/17 01:12

President Donald Trump let China off the hook Friday for the country's substantial trade deficit with the United States.

13/11/17 01:01

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has blasted North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, accusing the rogue state of trafficking drugs to fund their nuclear programme.

12/11/17 14:05

'Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?"' President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday.

11/11/17 18:37

President Donald Trump set off on an extended trip to Asia today with the rising threat from North Korea and a slew of nagging trade deficits at the top of his agenda.

11/11/17 12:48

The North Korean government said Saturday that Donald Trump's first trip to Asia showed he's itching for all-out Armageddon on the Korean peninsula.

10/11/17 19:12

Gavin Williamson - well known for owning a spider named Cronus - welcomed General 'Mad Dog' Mattis to London to discuss security.

09/11/17 11:09

President Donald Trump said Thursday in Beijing that he and President Xi Jinping agree that 'there's a solution' to conflict with North Korea.

08/11/17 18:12

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un's state media said that if Donald Trump continues to make threats of military actions and push for further sanctions, the U.S. would suffer a 'bitter defeat'.

08/11/17 11:49

The president said in South Korea that the 'rogue regime' to the North has become a dangerous menace, and warned North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-un not to test his patience.

08/11/17 01:41

'This is not the right time to be doing it, but that’s that I got. That's what I got,' Trump stated during a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

07/11/17 12:17

Dr. Lee Aeran, 53, escaped to South Korea in 1997 and has since opened a restaurant in Seoul where she is now taking donations towards Kim Jong-Un's assassination.

07/11/17 10:58

President Donald Trump said Tuesday in South Korea that he's optimistic about his chances to stop North Korea from deploying a nuclear missile capable of reaching America's allies.

07/11/17 03:22

Trump will head to South Korea on Tuesday waving a red, white and blue cape in the direction of a North Korean bull who has a nuclear goring on his mind. Some in Seoul can't wait for it to be over.

06/11/17 12:35

Two women, Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam, and four men who are still at large, have been charged with the murder of Kim Jong-Nam at Kuala Lumpur airport.

04/11/17 12:12

While at the March 16 Factory - named after the day it was founded in 1977 - the 33-year-old autocrat laughed as he inspected clapped-out machinery at a North Korean truck factory.

02/11/17 22:41

The comedian, 46, had bore a resemblance to the leader for Jonathan Ross' annual party on Tuesday when he appeared to sport prosthetics on his eyes and changed his skin tone.

02/11/17 21:28

National security adviser H.R. McMaster denied that Trump had used 'inflammatory' language toward Kim and that he could make comments that would 'ratchet up' North Korean aggression.

02/11/17 19:51

Government officials in South Korea and Japan are fearful that Trump will taunt communist strongman Kim Jong-un from their doorsteps and mire them in an intractable war.

02/11/17 15:30

The North Korean tyrant is believed to be preparing for a 2018 breakthrough in work to mount mini nukes on to intercontinental ballistic missiles.

02/11/17 08:46

David Walliams sent jaws dropping as he transformed into North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un for Jonathan Ross' Halloween party on Tuesday.

31/10/17 19:29

Two of seven members of the North Korean assassination team plotting against Kim Jong-un's nephew, 22-year-old Kim Han-sol, were arrested in Beijing last week.

29/10/17 23:25

Kim Jong-un was visiting the production plant in Pyongyang with his secretive partner, Ri Sol-ju, and called on women in his country to be 'more beautiful'.

27/10/17 21:57

Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis (centre), with his South Korean counterpart Song Young-moo (right) in the Demilitarized Zone on the border with North Korea, said our goal is not war'.

24/10/17 18:57

Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong wore bulletproof vests as they were brought in to Kuala Lumpur International Airport along with court officials.

23/10/17 21:04

Japan's defense minister asserted "different responses" are needed to combat the threat from North Korea, claiming Kim Jong-un's nuclear capabilities have reached unprecedented levels.

23/10/17 20:26

The North Korean dictator is said to be harvesting agents such as plague, anthrax and cholera and experts believe the intended targets are thought to be American troops.

23/10/17 19:04

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Monday to work with the US, China and Russia to contain North Korea's nuclear threat as he accepted his landslide victory in a snap election.

23/10/17 18:44

In the photos, taken by a tourist between Mount Kumgang and the port city of Wonsan on North Korea's east coast, Kim Jong-un's troops are seen labouring over broken trucks.

20/10/17 14:56

CIA director Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the use of US military force remains an option to prevent North Korea from acquiring a long-range nuclear missile that could hit the United States.

17/10/17 13:29

North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula 'has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.'

17/10/17 11:46

EXCLUSIVE: Kim Jong-un was third in line to take over from his father Kim Jong-il, but after his brothers Jong-nam (left) and Jong-chul (right) fell out of favour, he became the prime candidate.

17/10/17 11:45

Nam Sung Wook said the dictator's hot temper was obvious from his early years and makes him impossible to negotiate with. The security professor presented his findings today.

17/10/17 11:45

Dennis Rodman, 56, revealed the pair's bizarre friendship this morning and said that he has visited King Jong-un in North Korea 'six or seven times' and they pair go skiing together.

17/10/17 11:45

North Korea started moving a rocket towards the country's west coast on Monday, using the cover of darkness to avoid surveillance, South Korean media claim.

17/10/17 11:44

North Korea has announced it has successfully tested a weapon up to ten times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb that could kill millions of people.

17/10/17 11:43

PIERS MORGAN: China is the world's second largest superpower and has a duty of care to the rest of the world to rid it of North Korea's mad despot Kim Jong-un.

17/10/17 11:43

The dictator has three children with his wife Ri Sol-ju (pictured right) but the gender of the couple's first - who was born in 2010 - has never been revealed.

17/10/17 11:42

Military invasion. Sending in a hit squad. Tougher sanctions. Over the past months, with increasing alarm, world leaders have analysed every option in the battle to halt Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions.

17/10/17 11:42

The Foreign Secretary condemned the 'reckless' North Korean nuclear test and warned that being able to fit a warhead to a missile would present a 'new order of threat' from the regime.

17/10/17 11:41

As the world holds its breath in anticipation of a possible nuclear test, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a photo event in Pyongyang for a group of the country's youth troops.

17/10/17 11:41

The Russian President warned that the North Korea crisis is 'balancing on the brink of a large-scale conflict' and that threatening Pyongyang was a 'futile' exercise'.

17/10/17 11:40

The overhead pictures of Punggye-ri nuclear test site, in the north east of North Korea reveal Kim Jong-un could order a test blast 'at any time with minimal advance warning', experts say.

17/10/17 11:40

Malcolm Turnbull has condemned the behaviour of North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un, warning that war would be suicidal for the young leader. The comments come after the latest missile test.

17/10/17 11:40

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has praised North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-un for 'modernizing' the country with new infrastructure since becoming Supreme Leader in 2011.

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