Badges bearing images of North Korean leaders are a tradition in North Korea, though this is the first time Kim Jong Un’s face would be placed in the same portrait badge as his father, Kim Jong Illinois, and his grandfather, Kim Illinois Sung.
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North Korea expert Jean Lee told VICE: “These kind of executions are warning signals to the people, if they violate their country’s laws there will be consequences”.
Americans are rightfully concerned about ISIS’s rampage across the Middle East. But one thing that even ISIS has not yet accomplished is what the president, the director of the FBI, and the director of the NSA all insist Kim Jong-un’s hackers did past year – suppress the release of a major motion picture by threatening terrorist attacks on movie theaters across America.
Kim Chokwangsu, a gay activist and filmmaker who also tied the knot with a male partner Kim Seung-hwan (right in the photo), is pleading for recognition of same-sex marriage in South Korea.
Five fishermen in all were found drifting off the South’s east coast on Saturday, close to Ulleung Island.
Regardless of the reasons behind the terrapin deaths, Kim apparently decided to set an example by executing the farm manager, according to another Daily NK source who corroborated the story.
North and South Korea had only been squabbling about the location anyway; they were in agreement for once about holding a joint ceremony on the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation.
Born in Japan to Korean parents, Jong holds a North Korean passport and represented his country at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
“The South side must stop using hackneyed trickery that will fool no one and unconditionally return our citizens”, the message signed by the Red Cross chief, Kang Su Rin, and carried by the North’s external propaganda website Uriminzokkiri said. The greenhouses surrounded by mountains are known to grow North Korea’s finest fruits and vegetables.
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A severe drought in North Korea is putting the lives of children at risk and many are in serious danger of disease and malnutrition, the United Nations children’s agency said yesterday.
