69 h. ago Kim Jong Un orders North Koreans to check women for 'bourgeois' breast implants... and warns those with 'un

Authorities in the city of Sariwon have been ordered to conduct physical examinations of women suspected to have undergone breast augmentation surgery.

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4 d. ago Top diplomats of North Korea and China agree to deepen ties and push back at the United States

The foreign ministers of North Korea and China have agreed to deepen bilateral ties and resist hegemonism, a likely reference to pushing back against the United States

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5 d. ago Nepo baby daughter of noughties singer joins famous father on stage to perform hit track – but can you guess who it is?

A well-known singer brought his daughter on stage to duet his most popular track from the 2000's. Even if you weren't a fan of the star back in the day, you likely heard this song flood the radio decades ago. Singer and guitarist James Morrison, 41, is currently on his Fight Another Day world tour...

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6 d. ago Trump, Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping depicted in ‘Mount Rushmore’ at Thai shopping mall

A shopping mall in Thailand has installed a Mount Rushmore display using the faces of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping.

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1 week ago North Korea’s Kim says he can talk to Trump, but on one condition

Kim Jong Un says he has ‘fond memories with Trump’

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1 week ago Kim Jong Un says he has 'fond memories' of Trump and is open to future talks with the US

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he has 'fond memories' of US President Donald Trump and is open to future talks with the United States - if he can keep his nukes.

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1 week ago Kim Jong Un recalls ‘good memories’ with Trump as he issues US nuclear warning

North Korea has demonstrated weapons of various ranges designed to strike US allies in Asia and the US mainland

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2 w. ago 'Putin is ripping off Kim Jong Un' in Ukraine war deal: Russia has received nearly $10 billion in support while North Korea is getting $1billion in return and NO technological aid, report finds

While North Korea sent Russia weapons worth almost $10 billion, Russia's help to DPRK consists mainly of food, oil, air defense systems.

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2 w. ago North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un bans conversations about hamburgers, ice cream and Karaoke

Tour guides welcoming holidaymakers to North Korea 's new Wonsan beach-side are advising using certain words that are popular in the West.

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3 w. ago Kim Jong Un orders North Koreans caught watching foreign films to be EXECUTED

A government task force had increasingly been employed to raid houses in search of 'anti-socialist' materials. Those found consuming foreign media can now be executed

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3 w. ago Her name and age are unconfirmed, but she could be North Korea’s next Supreme Leader

Here’s what we know about the teen believed to be called Kim Ju Ae

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3 w. ago Kim Jong Un's wildest propaganda as North Korea celebrates independence

North Korea celebrated its 77th birthday on Tuesday your Daily Star looks back at a few bizarre things this hermit state and its leader have gotten up to over the years

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3 w. ago Brainless bodies and pig organs: does science back up Putin and Xi’s longevity claims?

Russian leader’s claim that people can ‘get younger’ through repeated organ transplants has raised eyebrowsPerhaps it was the extravagant display of deadly weaponry that prompted Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin to mull on mortality at this week’s military parade in Beijing.It was more banter than serious discussion, but with both aged 72, the Chinese president and his Russian counterpart may feel the cold hand on the shoulder more than Kim Jong-un, the 41-year-old North Korean leader who strolled beside them. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Inside Trump's top secret special forces raid that turned into a deadly midnight shootout in North Korea

The audacious plot unfolded in early 2019 as Trump was locked in high-stakes nuclear talks with Kim to limit the hostile nation's nuclear program, and has remained classified ever since.

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4 w. ago The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not | Marina Hyde

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back homeSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and morePop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love”?If you answered “Nigel Farage”, then I’m sorry. The Reform UK leader might have spent this pre-party conference week in his happy place – lodged several feet up the US presidential colon – and rhetorically demanding of US lawmakers: “At what point did [the UK] become North Korea?” But those Trump compliments were in fact previously made about Kim Jong-un, the dictator of well, you know the rest.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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4 w. ago 'Eerie similarities' between China and rise of Nazi Germany, says former minister

Victory day parade was attended by more than 20 world leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un

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4 w. ago Richard Tice stumbles in grilling over Keir Starmer and Kim Jong Un comparison

Richard Tice fumbled his words as he was grilled on why Sir Keir Starmer was like Kim Jong Un after both the deputy Reform UK leader and Nigel Farage compared the UK to North Korea.

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4 w. ago Dictators' kids who joined ‘family business’ from rapists to 'killed by electric fence'

What’s it like growing up with a despot as a dad? As bonkers North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un parades his daughter around China, we look at how life turned out for some other tyrants’ kids

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4 w. ago Ominous warning to the West: New 'Axis of Evil' between Presidents Xi, Putin and Kim Jong Un poses an even greater threat than the NAZIS, says MARK ALMOND

The master of ceremonies, China's Xi Jinping, flanked by Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong un, presented his vast country as the beating heart of an even more extensive alliance.

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4 w. ago Voices: Putin and Xi’s hot mic moment wasn’t even the oddest thing to emerge from China

When the dictators were accidentally recorded at their China summit debating organ transplants and other outlandish scientific means to help them achieve immortality, was anyone really surprised, asks Mary Dejevsky

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