
North Korea threatened on Wednesday to impose the death penalty on the South’s former president Park Geun-Hye over an alleged plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-Un. Park had “pushed forward” a supposed plan by Seoul’s intelligence services to eliminate the North’s leadership, Pyongyang’s security ministries and prosecutors said in ...

Russia opposes unilateral sanctions against North Korea aiming to put an “economic choke hold” on Pyongyang, Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov told Sputnik. “We are against the broad interpretation of the UN sanctions regime and, moreover, against the introduction of unilateral restrictions by individual states aimed in essence at the ...