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North Korea Claims No Coronavirus Cases. Experts Detect Another Reality.

April 16, 2020

Something is missing from the statistical charts and maps of Covid-19 in East Asia: credible data on the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea. The country, North Korea as it is commonly known, has always been a singularly secretive state controlled since its founding in 1948 by a savagely brutal dynasty. It is also next …

Asia, Covid-19, Health and Population

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UN Security Council Slaps More Sanctions on North Korea, Capping Fuel Imports

September 11, 2017

by Kacie Candela

The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed an American-led resolution on Sept. 11, imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea, including a naval blockade and oil embargo, despite wariness from China and Russia. While the final resolution is a much-watered-down version of the original draft circulated to the Council by the United States last week, …

Asia, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

North Korea and the UN: Agony and Ecstasy

August 14, 2017

by Irwin Arieff

If you are reading this, it must mean we have not been annihilated by a nuclear war between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Not that Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, will be able to take much credit — not because she didn’t try but because …

Nikki Haley Watch, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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TAKE A LOOK

What Is VX, a Banned Toxin, and Who Polices These Killers?

February 26, 2017

by Barbara Crossette

The chilling accusation by Malaysia that the assassins who killed Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, used the world’s most powerful chemical toxin has set off a global shockwave well beyond Asia. Malaysian authorities are convinced that a North Korean hit squad — one member an accredited diplomat — …

Asia, Disarmament, Take a Look

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Kim Jong-un

North Korea Claims No Coronavirus Cases. Experts Detect Another Reality.

UN Security Council Slaps More Sanctions on North Korea, Capping Fuel Imports

North Korea and the UN: Agony and Ecstasy

What Is VX, a Banned Toxin, and Who Polices These Killers?

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