The Wily Spy Who Risked His Life to Meet North Korea’s Secretive Leader
When the South Korean spy met with Kim Jong-il, he declined the late North Korean leader’s offer of a toast, citing a promise to his mother that he would never drink.
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When the South Korean spy met with Kim Jong-il, he declined the late North Korean leader’s offer of a toast, citing a promise to his mother that he would never drink.
SEOUL — North Korea has enough plutonium and uranium to produce at least a double-digit number of nuclear weapons, a South Korean lawmaker said on Sept 26, citing the country's spy agency.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held talks with Russian security chief Sergei Shoigu during his visit to the nuclear-armed country, Pyongyang’s state media reported on Saturday.
North Korea on Friday revealed a weapons-grade uranium-manufacturing site for the first time, as its leader, Kim Jong-un, flaunted his expanding nuclear weapons program ahead of the United States presidential election in November.
SEOUL — North Korea for the first time showed images of the centrifuges that produce fuel for its nuclear bombs on Friday (Sept 13), as leader Kim Jong-un visited a uranium enrichment facility and called for more weapons-grade material to boost the arsenal.
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the country is now implementing a nuclear force construction policy to increase the number of nuclear weapons "exponentially," state media KCNA said on Tuesday (Sept 10).
Hong Yoongi was walking near South Korea’s Parliament building in Seoul when he spotted the interloper from North Korea.
The announcement noted that 24 horses were transported across the border on Sunday, The Times wrote.