8 h. ago North Korea executes citizens who distribute foreign TV shows, UN finds

Human rights report highlights crackdown on personal freedoms in most restrictive country in worldNorth Korea has executed people for distributing foreign television shows, including popular South Korean dramas, as part of an intensifying crackdown on personal freedoms, a UN human rights report said on Friday.Surveillance has grown more pervasive since 2014 with the help of new technologies, while punishments have become harsher – including the introduction of the death penalty for offences such as sharing foreign TV dramas, the report said. Continue reading...

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9 h. 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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14 h. 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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56 h. ago 'Weapon' Lee Anderson slammed over 'dumb' national anthem plan 'just like North Korea'

Reform's Lee Anderson revealed that he wanted school kids to be forced to sing the National Anthem every morming while waving flags - all completely normal behaviour thank you very much...

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3 d. 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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7 d. ago Trump's 'secret mission with Bin Laden team in North Korea' ends in tragedy

US President Donald Trump reportedly sent the elite commandos who killed Osama Bin Laden on a secret mission to spy on North Korea - but the operation went horribly wrong

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7 d. ago Trump 'sent Bin Laden kill squad to North Korea' but mission went horribly wrong

According to a bombshell report, Donald Trump green-lit a plan to send the US Navy SEALs to North Korea, but the mission went wrong and ended in the deaths of civilians

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7 d. 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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7 d. 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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7 d. 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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7 d. 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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8 d. ago Nigel Farage jets back from 'talking down Britain tour' in US for Reform conference

Nigel Farage will set out his vision for Britain at Reform’s annual conference - after comparing the UK to North Korea in an address to the House Judiciary Committee

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8 d. 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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8 d. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Americans are wedded to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness while Britain sinks ever deeper into a bitter, socialist quagmire

Echoing the Daily Mail's front page on Wednesday, Nigel Farage lamented the state of free speech in Britain. 'At what point did we become North Korea?'

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8 d. ago Laser wars: How China's newly revealed weapon that can blind pilots and destroy electronics compares to US and UK's Star Wars technology

Xi Jinping, flanked by Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, took the opportunity to show off the LY-1 shipborne laser weapon.

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8 d. ago The girl Kim Jong Un wants to rule North Korea after his death: All the signs that tyrant's daughter Ju Ae looks certain to be his chosen successor after stepping out with him during China visit

Kim Ju Ae, thought to be around 13, has been by her tyrant father's side at a growing number of official events.

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8 d. ago Kim Jong Un’s staff seen scrubbing every surface he touched after meeting with Putin

Analysts say extreme security measure meant to prevent foreign intelligence agencies from gathering samples that may reveal North Korean leader’s health condition

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8 d. ago Is Britain really the new North Korea? Let us consider the evidence | Martin Kettle

Yes, there were some serious problems for Labour this week, but overblown claims in the press undermine what remains of our political debateSign 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 moreTell me, fellow Brits, how are you getting used to our island version of North Korea? How are you coping with life, now that we are a global pariah alongside Pyongyang? How do you feel about modern Britain having to vie with North Korea, Myanmar and Afghanistan for the wooden spoon on every international index of oppression?For that is the country Wednesday’s Daily Mail front page insists we have now become. It is tempting to laugh off a headline that asks “When did Britain become North Korea?” as just another here-today-gone-tomorrow piece of journalistic hyperbole. That’s even more the case when you read the cobbled-up pandemonium of provocations that form the contents of the hea...

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8 d. ago Vlad and Kim's love in! Russian and North Korean despots laugh, joke, hug and even enjoy a breakfast date together during trip to Beijing

Images captured candid moments between the two leaders as they sat across the table from one another and shared a car ride -underscoring a growing closeness in Russia-North Korea ties.

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9 d. ago Nigel Farage likens UK to North Korea in US congressional testimony

Reform party leader cites arrest of a comedy writer as an example of ‘big threat’ the UK posed to free expression

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