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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and daughter Kim Ju Ae attend a military parade to mark the 75th founding anniversary of North Korea’s army on February 8, 2023. Photo: KCNA via Reuters

Opinion | Kim’s purges show North Korean political promotions come with risk of death

Purges are partly to fend off alleged coup plots, but are also a key mechanism to maintain control over the bureaucracy, studies have shown.

  • Choe Ryong-hae, chairman of the standing committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly, reportedly among the latest to be removed from country’s top hierarchy
  • Purges are partly to fend off alleged coup plots, but are also a key mechanism to maintain control over the bureaucracy, studies have shown

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As I see it | Next of Kim: will saga of bloodshed, purges continue in North Korea’s dynasty?

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US still ‘prepared to engage’ with North Korea after missile test

As North Korea plots revenge over extradited ‘spy’, assassinations may be next

Malaysia – mindful of the killing of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother on its soil four years ago – has raised security measures at sensitive locations.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Photo: DPA

Malaysia expels North Korean diplomats after ties severed

Malaysian Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the expulsion was in response to Pyongyang’s ‘unilateral and utterly irresponsible decision’ on Friday to sever diplomatic ties.

Is North Korea’s move to cut ties with Malaysia a ‘test’ for Biden?

The action was called ‘puzzling’, and one that could ‘seriously damage efforts to improve ties between the US and the North’.

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Malaysia orders North Korean diplomats to leave as Pyongyang severs ties

Malaysia orders all North Korean diplomatic staff to exit country within 48 hours after Pyongyang severs ties over US extradition of its citizen.

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An armed officer stands guard in front of a gate at the North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. File photo: EPA

Malaysia plans to rekindle its once close North Korea ties

Relations between the two countries unravelled following the assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother in Kuala Lumpur in 2016.

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Accidental killer: the Indonesian accused of Kim assassination

Siti Aisyah recalls how an innocent prank went horribly wrong, ending in murder and and landing her in jail.

Review | Who is Kim Jong-un? Biography aims to make sense of dictator

In The Great Successor, Anna Fifield digs deep into the dictator’s early life, speaking with former classmates and others who knew the reclusive leader when he struggled with foreign languages and social interaction.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in May. Anna Fifield, in her biography The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong-un, paints a picture of him as a determined, unremitting leader bent on survival. Photo: AFP

Trump says sanctions hurting North Korea, in no rush for deal with Kim

Trump on Tuesday said he had received a very warm letter from Kim, calling the correspondence ‘beautiful’.

Donald Trump with Kim Jong-un. Photo: AFP

Trump says he received ‘beautiful letter’ from Kim Jong-un

US president tells reporters ‘I think that something will happen that’s going to be very positive’.

Kim Jong-un’s slain half-brother ‘was a CIA informant’, reports say

South Korean agencies said they could not confirm the report. The CIA declined to comment.

Malaysia frees Vietnamese woman linked to Kim Jong-nam murder

Indonesian Siti Aisyah – the only other person accused of the 2017 killing using a banned nerve agent – had already been freed.

Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong has been released. Photo: AP

Loyalty on show as North Koreans honour Kim dynasty leaders

North Koreans are taught from birth to revere the Kim family and the ceremonies surrounding such occasions are one of the ways in which authorities reinforce loyalty

Soldiers pay tribute to the statues of former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il on Mansu Hill to mark the Day of the Sun in Pyongyang. Photo: AP

Vietnamese woman linked to Kim Jong-nam murder, to be freed on May 3

Doan Thi Huong, charged with murder more than two years ago, pleaded guilty on April 1 to a lesser charge of ‘causing hurt’, punishable by up to 10 years in prison

Will North Korea try to kill women linked to Kim Jong-nam’s murder?

Doan Thi Huong and Siti Aisyah maintain that they were tricked into smearing nerve agent on the face of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother. Now that both will soon be free from custody, will Pyongyang attempt to silence them for good?

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Vietnamese suspect in Kim Jong-nam killing will be freed in May

Doan Thi Huong has been on trial since 2017 for the murder of Kim Jong-nam at Kuala Lumpur airport with a toxic nerve agent.

Doan Thi Huong, who was a suspect in the murder of Kim Jong-nam. Photo: Reuters

Masked assailants plotting Kim’s overthrow raid North Korean embassy

Masked assailants infiltrated compound in Madrid, Spain, tied staff up with rope, stole computers and phones, and fled in two luxury vehicles.

Kim Jong-nam murder trial to proceed for Vietnamese suspect

Malaysia’s rejection of Doan’s release ‘perverse’, says her lawyer

Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong, who is accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, will continue trial on April 1 after prosecutors declined a request to free her.

Doan Thi Huong, centre, arrives at Shah Alam High Court in Malaysia on Thursday. Photo: AP

Chaos and jubilation as villagers greet ex-suspect in Kim Jong-nam killing

Siti Aisyah, who fainted during her excited homecoming, had previously been accused of assassinating Kim Jong-un’s half brother by smearing poison on his face. But neighbours said Aisyah was a victim, and young village women like her were vulnerable to deception when they moved abroad.

Vietnam asks Malaysia to free Kim Jong-nam murder suspect

The woman’s co-defendant, Indonesian national Siti Aisyah, was released on Monday following extensive lobbying from her country’s government.

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Town gears up to welcome freed Kim Jong-nam murder suspect

Indonesia’s government said its continual high-level lobbying resulted in Siti Aisyah’s release.

This group has declared itself North Korea’s government in exile

The group emerged in 2017 when it said it had guaranteed the safety of Kim Han-sol, the son of Kim Jong-nam, who was murdered.

YouTube capture of Kim Han-sol. Photo: YouTube

Are Trump, Xi and Moon all just keeping up with the Kims?

Kim Jong-un is heading to Vietnam for a second date with the US president. Opinion is split over whether the millennial dictator’s charm offensive is a genuine quest for legitimacy or a rebranding of his old playbook

Kim Jong-nam murder trial adjourned again until March

The brazen assassination in February 2017 shocked the world, but the women have denied murder, saying they believed they were taking part in a prank

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Kim Jong-nam
The estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was assassinated at an airport in Kuala Lumpur in February 2017.
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23 July, 2024
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