In the run-up to the 9th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the successes of the last Five Year Plan were widely celebrated which sought to raise quality of life in the country and achieve a new level of strategic economic resilience.

La amenaza de aniquilación de países por parte del imperialismo hace que la proliferación de armas nucleares en todo el mundo sea una realidad inevitable.

The threat of annihilation of countries by imperialism makes the proliferation of nuclear weapons across the globe an inevitable reality.

The US, Japan, and South Korea concluded their biggest ever three day military exercise on Sunday. North Korea termed it “reckless and provocative” and warned it can have “fatal consequences”

The draconian travel ban prevents as many as 100,000 Koreans in the United States from visiting family members in North Korea. It is another weapon of war, part of the broader US strategy to further isolate North Korea and inflame tensions between both halves of the peninsula

The military exercises point towards a more aggressive US presence in the Pacific and increasing encirclement of China

The two nations defended their earlier veto against the UN Security Council resolution to impose further sanctions on North Korea and argued that the US has played a major role in stoking tensions in the peninsula

South Korean president Moon Jae-in announced that the four parties in the Korean War, which ended in a stalemate in 1953, have agreed “in-principle” to formally declare its end, indicating a major step towards peace