North Korea sends delegation to Iran in growing effort to break diplomatic isolation

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• Ryongsong Residence
• U.S. announces new Patriot missiles for Ukraine as part of $6-billion aid package
• Japan’s Kishida offers to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un: Pyongyang
• When was Kim Jong-Un declared North Korea's supreme leader?
• Paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine before his death avoids prison
• Marles unveils $100m support package for Ukraine during trip to Kyiv

Kim became the Supreme Leader of North Korea in 2011 and his first international state visit was to China in March 2018. The president had tweeted a warning days before that Alabama could be hit by the hurricane, refusing to back down from the assertion — despite internal pushback from federal officials — for six days. In 2011, a Taiwanese TV station apologized after one of its newsreaders mimicked the tone Ri used when she announced the death of Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il. It’s the most important anniversary in North Korea, which has been ruled by three generations of the Kim family since its foundation in 1948.

Ryongsong Residence

Most importantly, she says the people they interviewed noticed a marked shift towards favouring girls — a huge change in a traditional Confucian society that has long valued sons over daughters, because women were the ones looking at new ways to make money. As women's economic power increased, so did their control over sex, family planning and choice in partners, according to Dalton. While men were mostly consigned to fields and factories under the communist regime, women took control of the black market, exchanging food and starting market stalls for extra cash.

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North Korean state media often refer to him as "Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un" or "Marshal Kim Jong Un". He has promoted the policy of byungjin, similar to Kim Il Sung's policy from the 1960s, referring to the simultaneous development of both the economy and the country's nuclear weapons program. He has also revived the structures of the WPK, expanding the party's power in expense of the military leadership. The following month Kim hosted members of Moon’s administration at a dinner in P’yŏngyang, the first such meeting he had held with senior South Korean officials since taking power in 2011. At that time, Kim stated that he was open to discussing the elimination of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal if the United States was willing to guarantee the security of North Korea and his regime. That announcement was followed by talk of an unprecedented summit between Kim and Trump, which the Trump administration indicated would take place in or before May 2018.

Japan’s Kishida offers to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un: Pyongyang

Last month, the Financial Times reported that Kishida hoped for dialogue with Kim, the first of its kind in two decades, in a bid to boost his flagging domestic approval rating. A major focus of the meeting would be the status and possible release of the Japanese nationals North Korea kidnapped in the 1960s and 70s, the report said. In August 2022, the FBI eventually executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago that turned up more than 100 classified documents, and Trump was charged the following year with 40 criminal counts for retaining the information. “On certain occasions, White House military aides, cleaning staff, and other White House personnel would gather burn bags, trash, and other documents to provide them to WHORM,” the FBI notes of an interview with one of the officials read.

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Although Jang was the highest-profile official to be purged by Kim, defectors and South Korean intelligence services reported that people who had displeased the regime were being executed on a routine basis. In several cases, individuals who reportedly had been killed in a spectacularly grisly fashion resurfaced years later; such instances provided a clear illustration of just how difficult it was to obtain accurate information about events inside North Korea. Since then, North Korea has continued to develop intermediate and long-range ballistic missiles while staging a series of nuclear tests. Before Kim took control of the state, his father reportedly tested nuclear explosive devices in 2006 and 2009. Kim's regime is believed to have defied international rules six times to test nuclear weapons, most recently in September 2017.

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Kim has been using the threat of the virus as a justification for furthering the country’s isolation, observers said. Late last year, North Korea created new laws imposing harsh penalties of up to 15 years at a labor camp for distributing South Korean videos or music, according to a document reported by the site Daily NK. Now 37, Kim is about the age that his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, was when the latter began his nearly half-century rule over the country, which lasted from 1948 to 1994. As presidents and pandemics come and go elsewhere in the world, the first 10 years of Kim Jong Un’s rule could be the trial and error that sets the stage for the decades ahead.

When was Kim Jong-Un declared North Korea's supreme leader?

The agenda includes denuclearization, though definitions of that vary; arriving at some sort of peace framework since the Korean War is technically not over; and improving inter-Korean ties. Cameras will be allowed to stream the first handshake, a scheduled tree planting and a dinner banquet at the end of the day. But the next year, the situation had reversed completely, and Trump told the public that he had agreed to a meeting with Kim Jong Un, and for a time the nuclear and Armageddon tensions vanished. Kim lapped up the positive press that came with headline-grabbing summits – first with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and later with Trump.

His regime has used force and the threat of force,” combined with suppression of dissenters, to “co-opt” the state military and elites, grow military defense capabilities and challenge the U.S. and its South Korean allies, the report said. "Good meeting today. I think it's a great start," Trump said after conferring for about 90 minutes with Kim Yong Chol, who became the first North Korean official to visit the White House in 18 years and who the US president called "the second powerful man in North Korea." “This sends the wrong message to aspiring proliferators that if you sell Russia arms, Russia will even enable your pursuit of nuclear weapons,” according to the statement that was read by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who was flanked by diplomats from the three other countries. Both North Korea and Russia have previously denied the U.S. allegations about weapons. North Korea, however, has sided with Russia over the war in Ukraine, insisting that the “hegemonic policy” of the U.S.-led West has forced Moscow to take military action to protect its security interests.

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Kim met Ri, who is about 79, on Wednesday after inaugurating a newly built riverside terraced residential district in Pyongyang, the capital, KCNA said. It said houses in the district were presented to Ri and other people who have given distinguished service to the state. "Look, there's a role for spectacle in international diplomacy," says Danny Russel, a vice president at the Asia Society think tank and the top East Asia diplomat for the Obama administration. In a moment made for the cameras that will be livestreaming for the world to see, Kim Jong Un is planning to walk over the military demarcation line that has divided the peninsula for 65 years. The developments prompted then-US President Donald Trump to threaten “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” for the North if it continued to make such advances.

A week later, Trump announced the summit is back on after a North Korean envoy hand-delivered him a letter from Kim. The highly anticipated meeting is scheduled to be held at the luxury Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island. Kim threatened to pull back from the summit and criticized the United States with typical, fiery statements. In recent months, the United States has been hoping to secure a deal with North Korea in which Kim would abandon his nuclear program. The White House announced on May 10 that a summit between Trump and Kim would take place June 12 in Singapore.

North Korea has always been a deeply patriarchal society, but experts say that a growing number of women in the country are less interested in marriage, and are more focused on money — especially new ways to make it. With a glamorous wife, a strong and outspoken sister, and a young daughter all sharing the spotlight with a ruthless dictator, you might be forgiven for thinking Kim Jong Un has a keen interest in raising up the women of North Korea. At the United Nations on Wednesday, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea and Japan urged North Korea to halt arms negotiations with Russia. In March, the White House said it had gathered intelligence that showed that Russia was looking to broker a food-for-arms deal with North Korea, in which Moscow would provide the North with needed food and other commodities in return for munitions from Pyongyang. Her close ties to Kim were shown last year at a government foundation anniversary ceremony when she watched from an elevated veranda right next to Kim, and at one point put her hand on his shoulder and whispered to him. At another event, she was the first person to shake Kim’s hand before holding his arm and posing for a group photo.

Researchers who have visited North Korea several times and interviewed dozens of defectors have noticed a new, cashed-up rising class of women who are the breadwinners of their families. The elevation of Kim's female relatives coincides with the growing economic and social power of women living inside the secretive regime. Security Council resolutions, backed by Russia, that prohibit all countries from buying or obtaining any arms from the North, the four countries said in a joint statement.

Kim holds the titles of General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs. He is also a member of the Presidium of the WPK Politburo, the highest decision-making body in the country. In July 2012, Kim was promoted to the highest rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army, consolidating his position as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.