Samjiyon Construction Spreads to Several Towns Across the Region
Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates that stage three of North Korea’s project to redevelop the Samjiyon area is well underway. Despite its relatively small population, Samjiyon County has always...
Taiwan plans $9 bln boost in arms spending, warns of ‘severe threat’
Taiwan proposed on Thursday extra defence spending of T$240 billion ($8.69 billion) over the next five years, including on new missiles, as it warned of an urgent need to...
Duterte ordered the expulsion of US troops from the Philippines
UNITED STATES (OBSERVATORY NEWS) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte decided to cancel the 1998 agreement with the United States, which gave thousands of US troops the right to legally...
North Korea Proceeds Down a Nuclear Path
BY: 38 NORTHJULY 20, 2020COMMENTARY, MEDIA ANALYSISReports about the unusual “closed-door meeting” of the Workers’ Party of Korea Central Military Commission (CMC) on July 18 suggested that North Korea...
India military seeks to bolster ‘Act East’ policy with naval deployment to South China...
The Indian Navy has announced the deployment of a naval task force to the South China Sea to bolster security and support allies in the Indo Pacific region amid...
WHO: Coronavirus cases exceed 100,000 globally
The number of novel coronavirus cases worldwide has surpassed 100,000, World Health Organization (WHO) Spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic informed TASS on Saturday.
"Globally, 101,827 confirmed cases and 3,484 deaths due to...
North Korea’s China Trade Suffers Coronavirus Shock
BY: WILLIAM BROWN
To no one’s surprise, North Korea’s trade with China, already down from levels severely diminished by United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions, fell 24 percent in January...
China holds simultaneous military drills in four seas
China has begun five military exercises simultaneously along different parts of its coast, the second time in two months it will have such concurrent drills against a backdrop of...
China to leapfrog U.S. as world’s biggest economy by 2028
China will overtake the United States to become the world’s biggest economy in 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the contrasting recoveries of the two countries...
Yasutoshi Nishimura: Japan on path to coronavirus containment
Japanese Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Wednesday that the nation was on a path towards containing the novel coronavirus.
But he said Japan was yet ready to promote tourism...
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Greenpeace: United Kingdom imported more than $ 275 million in Russian oil during the...
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The Hell of Volnovakha
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