Tag: Kim
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Kim Jong Un sending soldiers to Russia complicates Putin’s BRICS summit
The North Korean forces are a small number so far, at least 3,000 the U.S. says, compared with the hundreds of thousands the West estimates have been killed in Ukraine on both sides. But it may allow Russia to reorganize and push forward, and if it works North Korea can send more. It has a…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un visits missile bases and cites U.S. nuclear threat
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited missile bases to examine their readiness to undertake actions of “strategic deterrence,” while calling U.S. nuclear capabilities a growing threat to the country, state media reported Wednesday. The U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal poses an “ever-increasing threat” to North Korea’s security environment, which demands…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un calls South Korea a foreign, hostile country
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korea is a foreign and hostile nation, state news agency KCNA reported Friday, with photos showing Kim conferring with high-ranking soldiers and poring over a map labeled “Seoul” at a command post. Kim discussed the use of “offensive forces” against the South as…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wants to speed up becoming a nuclear superpower
In his address that day, Yoon warned the North against using nuclear weapons. “That day will see the end of the North Korean regime.” North Korea may be building a new submarine, the South Korean defense ministry said citing intelligence indications in a report to a member of parliament. In January, Kim reportedly ordered a…
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North Korea leader Kim threatens nuclear response if sovereignty breached
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country would not hesitate to use all available offensive forces including nuclear weapons if the enemy attempted to use force to encroach on its sovereignty, state news agency KCNA reported Friday. Kim criticized South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for threatening to end the North…
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Kim Kardashian: Free the Menendez brothers
We are all products of our experiences. They shape who we were, who we are, and who we will be. Physiologically and psychologically, time changes us, and I doubt anyone would claim to be the same person they were at 18. I know I’m not! You think you know the story of Lyle and Erik…
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Kim Kardashian advocates for imprisoned Menendez brothers to be released: ‘They are not monsters’
Kim Kardashian is backing the Menendez brothers in a personal essay shared Thursday with NBC News, writing that “I have spent time with Lyle and Erik; they are not monsters.” Kardashian, the reality TV star and entrepreneur who has used her celebrity platform to advocate for inmates on criminal justice issues, believes Lyle and Erik…
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Amazon pulls Kim Porter memoir denounced by her kids as fake
Amazon has removed from its site a memoir that alleges that hip-hop mogul Sean Combs physically abused his longtime girlfriend Kim Porter, whose untimely death in 2018 at age 47 has been the source of conspiracies. The book was self-published under the pseudonym “Jamal T. Millwood” by Todd Christopher Guzze, who goes by the name…