May 16th, 2013 at 10:23 pm » Comments (9)

So says the Chosun Ilbo: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un now has two daughters, probably with different women, according to a source in Beijing. His older brother Kim Jong-chol apparently has a son. The source said Kim Jong-un’s wife Ri Sol-ju gave birth to a baby girl late last year. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who visited Pyongyang in February this year, said Ri talked mostly about her “beautiful baby daughter.” The North Korean leader’s first child, also a daughter, was reportedly born in 2010. The source said the mother
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April 6th, 2013 at 1:07 pm » Comments (13)

I am still pissed off at Anonymous for leaking my credit card information from my STRATFOR account, but this hack of North Korea’s Flickr page I have to hand it to them is quite funny.

April 4th, 2013 at 2:16 am » Comments (5)

North Korea keeps making their daily threats in a continuing effort to rally the population around Kim Jong-un: Ratcheting up the rhetoric, North Korea warned early Thursday that its military has been cleared to wage an attack on the U.S. using “smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear” weapons. The Pentagon, meanwhile, said in Washington that it will deploy a missile defense system to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam to strengthen regional protection against a possible attack from North Korea. The defense secretary said the U.S. was seeking to defuse the
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April 3rd, 2013 at 3:11 am » Comments (6)

Daniel Pinkston a Korea analyst for the International Crisis Group believes that the tensions on the Korean Peninsula have a lot to do with solidifying the domestic population in North Korea around Kim Jong-un: Daniel Pinkston, senior analyst for Korea at the International Crisis Group, says the unprecedented declaration raises concerns about a miscalculation. “We’ve lived with that threat or possibility for over a half century now,” said Pinkston. “I think the risk of hostility has gone up. The problem is I don’t see how North Korea backs out or
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March 15th, 2013 at 1:21 pm » Comments (3)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) visits a long-range artillery sub-unit of the Korean People’s Army Unit 641, whose mission is to strike Baengnyeong Island of South Korea in the western sector of the front line March 11, 2013 in this picture released by the North’s official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang March 12, 2013. REUTERS/KCNA

March 14th, 2013 at 1:19 pm » Comments (10)

In this March 11, 2013 photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rides on a boat, heading for the Wolnae Islet Defense Detachment, North Korea, near the western sea border with South Korea. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS)  [Newser.com]

March 12th, 2013 at 1:44 pm » Comments (6)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (sitting at center) smiles while watching an archery game during his visit to an athletes’ team in Pyongyang on March 9, 2013. (Yonhap)

March 3rd, 2013 at 7:15 pm » Comments (2)

If you read B.R. Myers’ book you would probably agree with his analysis here: On Monday, Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s first female president and the daughter of the dictator who ruled the country in the 1960s and 1970s, was sworn into office. “Consider her roles: daughter, first lady, mother” writes novelist Suki Kim in a recent New York Times op-ed. “This woman, widely lauded as her country’s first female president, is no symbol of latent feminism but of something far more traditional – a girl who grew up before the
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March 1st, 2013 at 7:33 pm » Comments (30)

If Dennis Rodman likes his buddy Kim Jong-un so much he should consider relocating to Pyongyang: orth Korean leader Kim Jong-un watched a basketball game Thursday with Dennis Rodman, a former star player in the U.S. known as much for his tattoos and eccentric behavior as he was for his basketball skills. The rare public encounter between Kim and a visiting foreigner took place in Pyongyang. Kim and Rodman, who is over two meters tall, sat together, according to a Chinese reporter’s account. No pictures or video were immediately available
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February 26th, 2013 at 5:51 am » Comments (13)

Vice Media and Dennis Rodman have just given the Kim regime some great domestic propaganda to show their people how decadent Americans are: PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills Tuesday and flamboyant style – neon-bleached hair, tattoos, nose studs and all – to the isolated communist country with possibly the world’s drabbest dress code: North Korea. Arriving in Pyongyang, the American athlete and showman known as ”The Worm” became an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between
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