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Despite talk of a military strike, Trump’s ‘armada’ actually sailed away from Korea – Washington Postby wpjljron Wednesday, April 19th, 2017.Despite talk of a military strike, Trump’s ‘armada’ actually sailed away from Korea – Washington PostBEIJING — As tensions mounted on the Korean Peninsula, Adm. Harry Harris made a dramatic announcement: An aircraft carrier had been ordered to sail north from Singapore on April 8 toward the Western Pacific. A spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Command, which Harris heads, linked the deployment directly to the “number one threat in the [�...

US wants more UN sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear arms, warns time is short – Washington Postby wpjljron Saturday, April 29th, 2017.US wants more UN sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear arms, warns time is short – Washington PostUNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Friday for new economic sanctions on North Korea and other “painful” measures over its nuclear weapons program, as the Trump administration warned that it would take military action if diplomacy failed. “Failing to act now on the most pressing security issue in the world may bring […] UNIT...

North Korean defector: 'A very small spark could topple Kim Jong Un' 12 minutes to read By: Edward White The former North Korean diplomat on life under the Kims — and how the world should counter the regime. Tae Yong-ho says he was 14 years old when he first began to comprehend the true cruelty of the songbun, Kim Il Sung's class system. It was August 1976, and the Great Leader was expelling people whose loyalty might not be guaranteed. Tae's parents, members of the "core class", were safe. His aunt, uncle and two cousins, members of the "wavering class" because of suspect...

Advertisement How do you start a story about the public political assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother by two women at a Malaysian airport in 2017? Kim Jong-Nam, the oldest successor to Kim Jong Il, was planning to check in at Kuala Lumpur Airport for a flight to Macau, where he and his young family lived in exile after his younger half-brother assumed control of North Korea, when a toxic nerve agent was applied to his eyes. He was dead in an hour. Clearly the first desire is to ask: who were these women? Newsreels at the time suggested they could have been fem...

Review: NatGeo’s ‘Inside the Mind of a Dictator’ Looks at the World of Kim Jong Un Inside the Mind of a Dictator, which was originally scheduled to air in January but postponed at the last minute, hinges quite a bit on that tension, between Kim’s occasional gestures toward openness and modernization, and the regime’s character as a dictatorship with little political freedom. Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea for the last decade, has quite a bit in common with Michael Corleone, the mobster protagonist of The Godfather movies. He’s the leader of a family dynasty, one which h...