With sanctions now sinking their teeth into North Korea, the United States and its allies will discuss a naval blockade that could end North Korean smuggling, bringing the maximum pressure campaign towards its endgame. The United Nations Security Council passed a new round of tougher sanctions just before Christmas, ratcheting down permitted North Korean trade […]

North Korea is fuming over news Japan is making a series of investments in its self defense force that give it better offensive capabilities in the face of threats from North Korea. Among the upgrades, Japan could convert its helicopter carriers into aircraft carriers with the purchase of F-35B vertical-takeoff strike fighters. The Japan Times […]

A surge of North Koreans tried to flee the prison state over the New Year, hoping security would be lightened during celebrations, according to sources in Ryanggang Province, in the northeast of North Korea. Many of them were arrested. Defections from the hermit kingdom have plummeted under Kim Jong Un since 2012 as border security […]

The United States is preparing to sell Japan anti-ballistic missiles that can be used on land or on AEGIS-class destroyers, according to a spokesperson in the State Department. The administration notified Congress of the proposed sale on Jan. 9, looking for final approval on a deal that will see Japan buy four SM-3 Block IIA […]

News Analysis North Korea’s new willingness to hold talks with South Korea is either a ploy to buy time or hold off a possible U.S. invasion or both, according to two experts. Much has been made of North Korea’s sudden willingness to talk to South Korea. Some credible commentators are calling it a diplomatic breakthrough. […]

North Korea is a regime sustained largely on criminal enterprises, from slavery to illegal arms deals, with a carnivorous economy now left gnawing at bones due to international sanctions. A hint at the size of the problem comes from Kim Jong Un’s recent New Year’s speeches where he mentioned his recent nuclear advances just 42 […]

North Koreans won’t be celebrating the birthday of their “Supreme Leader,” Kim Jong Un, this year despite “brimming with the pride of being led by a peerlessly great man who translates their ideals and dreams into reality.” That quote comes from a recent state propaganda piece extolling the current North Korean dictator and his alleged […]

President Donald Trump has been left to clean up a North Korean mess left behind by the Obama administration, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. It’s not the first time Obama’s policy of “strategic patience” has been blamed for the current crisis, though the seriousness of that failure has become more clear over […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has put his regime’s survival in the hands of scientists and engineers responsible for developing a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile. But while these personnel get accolades and parades, reports continue to emerge of common soldiers struggling to stay fed. While North Korea’s “songun” policy prioritizes military needs over everything […]

Strict information control in North Korea prohibits residents from getting information from anything but official sources. While South Korean dramas are a particularly sought-after indulgence, some cadres worried about getting caught up in one of Kim Jong Un’s purges or falling out of favor amid interparty jockeying are looking for reassurance from an unlikely illicit […]

North and South Korea will sit down for high-level talks next week in what optimistic observers hope could be a turning point in the current standoff. While some experts believe Pyongyang is making a genuine effort at diplomacy, others say the North Korean regime is simply changing tactics. They hold that Pyongyang intends to leverage […]

President Donald Trump held up the tit-for-tat that has marked his administration’s policy towards North Korea by warning its dictator that he too has a nuclear button. Trump maxed out Twitter’s 280 character limit in a response to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who had again threatened a nuclear attack against the United States during […]

North Korean state-owned printing companies are having to print a wider range of 2018 calendars as sales of calendars that glorify the Kim family regime plummet. “You can see a shift in public attitude towards the calendars. As the years have passed, calendars depicting propaganda for Ryomyong Street, orphanages, and Mt. Paektu have become less […]

Reports are swirling that North Korea has begun testing an anthrax-loaded warhead for its intercontinental ballistic missile after Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper quoted an anonymous intelligence source in Seoul. The report comes on the heels of a White House National Security Strategy that points at similar concerns. North Korea has vehemently denied the allegations, but […]

Japan and South Korea are calling on China to push its wayward ally North Korea harder so it abandons its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs, Japan’s foreign minister, Taro Kono, told reporters on Dec. 16 “We agreed that it is necessary to ask China to play even more of a role,” Kono said meeting […]

News Analysis If war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, the Chinese regime will play a decisive role in the fate of its communist cousin. But what China will do in defense of North Korea will hinge largely on who shoots first and what Russia does or doesn’t do. North Korea’s fate has resided in […]

The United States is calling out North Korea for the WannaCry malware attack that infected 230,000 computers in 150 countries—an attack made more disturbing because the attack was aimed at inflicting maximum damage, rather than making money. However, the attack may have marked a turning point in how the U.S. government deals with threats and […]

North Korea’s nuclear missile program has made explosive progress in the recent years, culminating in a nuclear bomb test in September and an intercontinental ballistic missile test two weeks ago that proved North Korea can strike the entirety of the U.S. mainland. Now an image captured by North Korean state media and incidentally released to […]

As tensions mount on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea’s two major backers—Russia and China—have kicked off a series of joint air defense exercises that could be sending a message to the United States and North Korea. China’s Ministry of National Defense said the exercises will help China and Russia strengthen cooperation in air and missile […]

North Korea has cut landlines nationwide, possibly due to a phone book that escaped the country. According to Daily NK, the regime ordered the shutdown in order to change its phone number system. The news outlet says that residents and officials are responding with “open frustration” as phone service is disrupted. Telephone service was once […]

Of all the illegal trade between China and South Korea, China’s import of enslaved North Korean women is among the darkest. For many women, leaving North Korea is the best way to escape rampant sexual abuse and degradation in Kim Jong Un’s prison state where rape is one of the ways officials use their power […]

As tensions mount on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea’s two major backers—Russia and China—have kicked off a series of joint air defense exercises that could be sending a message to the United States and North Korea. China’s Ministry of National Defense said the exercises will help China and Russia strengthen cooperation in air and missile […]

New satellite images indicate the North Korea regime is working on its nuclear test site despite ongoing tremors suggesting the region has been destabilized by previous underground tests. According to recent commercial satellite photos and an analysis shared by 38 North—which specializes in information about North Korea—the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site is receiving significant tunnel […]

Submarines carrying nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles are apocalyptical leviathans—stealthily moving missile launchers—and North Korea has them. Of the three legs of the U.S. nuclear triad—land-launched ICBMs, bombers with nuclear bombs or missiles, and submarines with nuclear missiles—submarines are arguably the most deadly. They are all but undetectable, can get close to the enemy, and are very […]

News Analysis Pyongyang is ready to talk, according to Russia’s Foreign Minister, but North Korea’s priorities and Russia’s motivations are questionable. “We know that North Korea wants above all to talk to the United States about guarantees for its security. We are ready to support that, we are ready to take part in facilitating such […]

Sources inside North Korea say the regime has ramped up ideological and military training recently, but have not supplied the food and supplies soldiers need, causing morale to plummet. The story comes a few weeks after a North Korean soldier defected to South Korea by running across the demilitarized zone, getting shot five in the […]

For decades, intercontinental ballistic missiles tipped with a nuclear warhead were the most dangerous thing in the world, all but unbeatable, a threat to global survival. That could be about to change. The $700 billion dollar defense budget Congress sent the President to sign on Nov. 30 gave the defense department some far-fetched sounding research […]

The United States and South Korean jets were honing their combined combat skills in massive annual air drills when a foreign affairs spokesman for North Korea announced that war is inevitable. The spokesperson said high-level politicians in the United States “are showing alarming signs by making bellicose remarks one after another,” the unnamed spokesperson said […]

U.S. and South Korean forces are carrying out a massive air power exercise this week involving some 230 aircraft. The exercise runs from Dec. 4-8 and includes 12,000 U.S. personnel. The annual exercise brings in planes from across South Korea. Last year’s drill included aircraft from U.S. bases in Japan. This year it will include […]

Russia and China are sending a message through their state-controlled media that they have reached their limit cooperating with the U.S.-led pressure campaign against North Korea. President Donald Trump said new sanctions against the North Korean regime would come soon, but efforts to get Russia and China to participate look unlikely. So too does any […]

A Cathay Pacific flight crew saw the final moments of North Korea’s ballistic missile launch last week, according to the airline. North Korea launched the missile in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Nov. 28 as a flight by the Hong Kong-based airline crossed the Pacific from San Francisco to Hong Kong. After the missile […]

Russian lawmakers claim North Korea is ready for war and only the Kremlin can negotiate a peace deal. China may be North Korea’s critical trading partner, but as the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula has unfolded, Russia has strengthened ties with the communist regime, even echoing North Korean propaganda. That includes Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov […]

Kim Jong Un’s race for a nuclear missile could become a lesson in unintended consequences as the United States and other nations try to prepare for the possibility of another Korean War. The communist regime’s successful missile test on Nov. 28, came 12 days after Congress approved a $700 billion defense budget that slotted $12.3 […]

News Analysis Kim Jong Un may often threaten the United States and Japan with nuclear annihilation but the timing of his latest missile test could reveal his fear of his own demise. North Korea launched the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile on Nov, 29. The missile flew for 53 minutes, reached 2800 miles high—over ten times […]

President Donald Trump doesn’t want a war on the Korean Peninsula, but he is ready for one if that’s what it takes to stop North Korea from getting a nuclear weapon capable of striking the United States. That’s the summary of the President’s position Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) gave during an interview on CNN on […]

North Korea will come under significant new sanctions, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on Wednesday, Nov. 29. Trump’s announcement comes as major regional players rally around efforts to increase economic penalties against North Korea after its latest missile test. The regime launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into space on Nov. 28. “Just spoke […]

President Donald Trump said nothing has changed in how the U.S. government will deal with North Korea in light of the communist regime’s ballistic missile launch two hours earlier. “We will take care of that situation,” said President Trump in an impromptu press briefing Tuesday afternoon. “We have a very serious approach and nothing changed.” […]

North Korea fired its first missile in 74 days early on Wednesday, Nov. 29 local time, about a week before a massive U.S. and South Korea joint Air Force exercise begins on the Korean peninsula. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the unidentified ballistic missile flew eastward from South Pyongan Province, according to South […]

North Korea’s socialist regime used to make some of its much needed foreign currency by selling crystal meth – a state-sanctioned drug trade that has left its mark on the country. The regime’s drug activities were prolific and well documented, with crystal meth being the regime’s export drug of choice after the difficulties of poppy […]

In an effort to crack down on drunken criticisms of the regime, North Korea is instituting a restriction on drinking, throttling one of the few fun things North Koreans were allowed to do. Poor and oppressed, North Koreans, particularly outside Pyongyang, have neither the means nor the freedom to pursue levity. One of the most […]

On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded the south, and its Soviet-supplied army smashed through South Korea’s defense. Seoul fell within three days, and within five days South Korea’s army was shattered, losing nearly 80 percent of its 95,000 soldiers. In early July, U.S. forces scrambled over from occupied Japan to help hold the line […]

North Korea has replaced all of its border security guards after the harrowing escape of a fellow North Korean soldier, a source has told South Korea’s main news agency. The soldier, known only by his surname, Oh, ran through a hail of bullets and had to be dragged out of harm’s way by United Nations […]

The U.S. Treasury Department has put in place sanctions against Chinese and North Korean companies after President Donald Trump announced North Korea would be redesignated a state sponsor of terrorism. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned one individual, 13 entities, and 20 vessels on Nov. 21 in a bid to disrupt […]

North Korea violated its armistice with United Nations Command (UNC) when its soldiers opened fire on a soldier attempting to defect by crossing through the joint security area where the North and South Korean soldiers stand face-to-face. While the UNC is looking for a way to prevent future violations, North Korea has repeatedly announced that […]

North Korea is warning it will “settle accounts” with the United States over being relisted as a state sponsor of terrorism. “This is a serious provocation and a violent infringement upon our dignified country,” said a foreign affairs spokesperson for the regime on Nov. 22. The threatening commentary was published by North Korean news agency […]

North Korea’s propaganda apparatus clings to each and every example that the isolated regime still maintains some friends in the outside world. But the reality is more stark. While the regime did have ties throughout the communist world, it has found friends harder to hold on to as many of its former friends have abandoned […]

North Korean state-run news agency, KCNA, departed from its usual editorials about the “inevitable” triumph of the socialist state and the “undeniable” power of its armed forces to say it isn’t the weapons an army has that wins the battle, but the determination of its soldiers. The editorial came the day before the Los Angeles-class […]

North Korea has begun censoring the messages that can be delivered on its fledgling Mother’s Day holiday, started by dictator Kim Jong Un in 2012. Mother’s Day in North Korea is used to promote mothers who uphold the North Korean regime. “The happiness of family and the future of the nation lie in bringing up […]

The head of North Korea’s most powerful military organization is being punished after a key military organ came under scrutiny by the Kim Jong Un regime, South Korea’s spy agency disclosed Monday. The move is being read by some as an attempt by Kim to ensure the political elite remain insecure and loyal as the […]

President Donald Trump designated North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism on Monday, opening the door to additional sanctions against Pyongyang as it continues to pursue nuclear weapons programs. “Today, the United States is designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Should have happened a long […]

President Donald Trump could announce as early as next week that North Korea will be re-designated as a state sponsor of terrorism—a move that will further isolate Kim Jong Un’s communist regime. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Thursday that Trump would make an announcement on the potential designation early next week. […]

North Korea maintains a large—albeit outdated—military force, but pays its soldiers so little they have begun raiding farms to feed themselves. One of the ways leader Kim Jong Un maintains the loyalty of his troops is by playing a murderous, tyrannical Santa Claus, doling out luxury gifts and basic food and toiletry items to keep people […]

South Korea has added the theme song to The Good, The Bad And The Ugly to its arsenal of psychological weapons, according to a video obtained by a recent visitor to the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries. The haunting melody from Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti western helped launch Clint Eastwood to stardom. Now it’s […]

Japan is dusting off a 1994 plan to deal with a mass exodus of North Koreans showing up on its shores in the event of war on the Korean Peninsula, according to Japanese media. The Japanese government is looking for ways to limit the dangers posed by a massive influx of North Korean refugees, reports […]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will dispatch a special envoy to North Korea on Friday—a week after President Donald Trump left China—with speculation rife as to what message that envoy will deliver.  Song Tao, the head of Beijing’s International Department, heads to North Korea at a turbulent time in North Korea-China relations.  The Chinese regime’s official […]

President Donald Trump’s tour of Asia aimed to send a signal through the Asia-Pacific that while the United States was there to support its allies, they had to stop picking its pockets. He came home with $300 billion in signed deals and an important commitment from Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping to help denuclearize North […]

Three U.S. aircraft carriers and their accompanying strike groups of warships, fighter jets and other aircraft completed a rare military exercise with South Korea and Japan in the Western Pacific Monday. The four-day military exercises finish as President Donald Trump heads home to the United States after a 12 day trip to Asia. The USS […]

China will be increasing its sanctions against North Korea, President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday. “President Xi of China has stated that he is upping the sanctions against #NoKo. Said he wants them to denuclearize. Progress is being made.” The announcement comes as Trump returns from this 11-day trip through five Asian countries with a […]

North Korea’s last missile test on Sept. 15 puts the regime on the cusp of meeting a 60-day no launches-no tests requirement that the United States has set as a prerequisite for negotiations—sort of. It’s been 56 days since North Korea last launched a missile, raising questions about why the regime has paused its provocations […]

Sanctions take time, but North Korea is already showing the symptoms of an economy under duress, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters in Beijing on Thursday, Nov. 9. Tillerson said the Chinese regime had shared signs they had observed that the effect of the sanctions was becoming a problem for the Kim regime. “We […]

The United States and China may struggle to resolve ongoing trade disputes, but are in complete agreement on North Korea, according to the leaders themselves and a more detailed account by the U.S. Secretary of State. Neither the United States, nor China, will accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi […]

Reports of soldiers looting in North Korea continue to increase as the Kim Jong Un regime reels from the impact of economic sanctions along with a spring drought that led to a meager harvest. The looting came after earlier reports that the communist regime has ordered the military to acquire its own food supplies. Normally, […]

News Analysis Beyond the deal-signings and handshakes of President Donald Trump’s trip to China are simmering conflicts that have few win-win options. Accompanying Trump to Beijing are 29 U.S. business leaders who will bask in the friendly atmosphere as Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping wrap their flags around the bounty of pre-negotiated business deals. […]

President Donald Trump laid bare the grim reality of life in North Korea when he spoke to the South Korean National Assembly on Wednesday. Describing it as an extraordinary privilege to speak on behalf of the people of the United States of America, he said South Korea had awed him and Melania with its ancient […]

Sanctions currently crippling the North Korean economy could intensify if President Donald Trump succeeds in achieving one of the overarching goals of his current trip through several Asian countries. The U.S. president’s top priority during his current Asia tour is to strengthen international resolve to denuclearize North Korea, a senior White House official told reporters […]

Sanctions that are crippling the North Korean economy could intensify if President Donald Trump succeeds in one of his overarching goals for his current trip through several Asian countries. The President’s top priority during his current Asia tour is to strengthen international resolve to denuclearize North Korea, a senior White House official told reporters on […]

Reports from inside China reveal sanctions are pushing North Korean workers out of the country, cutting off one of the final key sources of foreign-made income for the North Korean regime. Many workers are even being sent home earlier than required by the sanctions. In one instance, a Chinese pharmaceutical factory in the border city […]

The United States needs to take a firmer line with allies in its diplomatic effort to isolate North Korea, a high-level defector told lawmakers this week. “Ironically, so far, only a few countries in the world expelled North Korean ambassadors as a protest of the current continuation of the nuclear program,” said Thae Yong-ho, a […]

The U.S. Treasury Department has cut China’s Bank of Dandong off from the U.S. financial system on the eve of President Donald Trump’s Asia tour. The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule Thursday that bars U.S. financial firms from doing business with the Bank of Dandong, which the Treasury department described […]

North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” is known for his distinct haircut and being the chubbiest fellow in a country of gaunt, starved people, but some facts about Kim Jong Un are less well known and more disturbing. But it isn’t just what is known about Kim Jong Un that is surprising, but also what he keeps […]

China has agreed to drop a punitive economic measure that would have cost South Korea billions in exchange for South Korea agreeing not to form closer military ties with the United States and Japan, nor install any more THAAD missile defense systems capable of taking out North Korean missiles. The agreement, made on Tuesday, ends […]

China’s forcible return of North Korean refugees is critical to sustaining the North Korean regime, according a high-level North Korean defector. If China allowed North Korean refugees safe passage to South Korea, a mass exodus of North Koreans would quickly bring the regime to its knees, according to Thae Yong-ho, a former deputy chief at […]

North Korea’s fragile dictatorship has a critical weakness that the United States can exploit to end Kim Jong Un’s regime, a high-level defector told Congress on Wednesday. The brutal oppression, thought-control, and endemic poverty of communist North Korea stand in stark contrast to its southern neighbor, where the quality of life is so much better […]

A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, flew to the Pacific over the weekend on the eve of drills used to help hone command and control of America’s nuclear forces. U.S. Strategic Command said sending the bomber demonstrated the United States’ commitment to partners and allies as North Korea escalates its threatening rhetoric […]

A tunnel at the site of North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test has collapsed, killing more than 200 people, according to Japanese media. Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi, citing unnamed North Korean sources familiar with the situation, said on Tuesday, Oct. 31, that around 100 workers were at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site when the […]

President Donald Trump’s Asian tour will begin this weekend, giving the leader of the free world a week and a half settle the nerves of allies, unnerve North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and realign some of the complicated and competing priorities in the China-US relationship. A senior fellow with the International Assessment and Strategy […]

The Treasury Department has sanctioned a Chinese company involved in North Korea’s ballistic missile program in a little-noticed press release on sanctions against of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. (IRGC). The 900-word press release from the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. (IRGC) as a state-sponsor of terror, laying […]

The names of North Korea’s various agencies and ministries take on an Orwellian bent in the State Department’s latest biannual report, released Oct. 26.. Every six months the secretary of state has to report to Congress on individuals and activities that seriously violate the basic rights of North Koreans. Thursday’s report takes aim at several […]

Beset by sanctions and now plagued with a poor harvest due to drought in spring, everyday North Koreans are facing two immediate dangers—officials hungry for bribes, and hunger itself. Recent reports from Daily NK—a publication based in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, that specializes in finding sources inside North Korea—paint a stark picture of a country […]

News Analysis President Donald Trump’s patience seems to be running thin with Russian President Vladamir Putin’s covert backing of the North Korean regime, but actually fixing the problem could be difficult, said an expert in Russian foreign policy. Trump told Fox Business that while China was working to resolve the North Korea issue, Russia was […]

North Korea’s many depictions of the ruling Kim family—murals, paintings, and other so-called “idolization objects”—are getting increased security, according to sources inside the country. DailyNK—a news site based in Seoul known for gaining access to reliable sources inside its North Korea—is reporting that North Korean authorities have given orders to increase the security presence at […]

As the United States adds more warships to the Korean theater and conducts more advanced military drills, the prospect of a diplomatic solution improves, say a range of experts. Recently, both a former general and a current CIA analyst have affirmed the necessity of keeping both North Korea and it’s key lifeline, China, convinced that […]

The U.S Pacific Command added two more aircraft carriers and their accompanying strike groups to the 7th Fleet this week, temporarily giving U.S. forces a significant increase in firepower near the Korean Peninsula. The Pacific Command will also see its first deployment of F-35A stealth fighter jets in early November. The Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt […]

North Korea’s drive to create biological pesticides and fertilizers may be a cover for a biological weapons program, warn researchers at Harvard. While North Korea basks in international horror over its ongoing nuclear program and its threats to wipe out Japan and the United States, the regime denies it has any biological weapons program to […]

The United States, Japan, and South Korea began a drill on Tuesday to help the allies coordinate their anti-missile defenses. The exercise aims to help the three countries coordinate their efforts to detect and track a ballistic missile launch. It’s the allies’ fifth trilateral drill, coming as North Korea’s provocations push the three countries into […]

An elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is investigating a teacher after she posted a Facebook status saying she was going to buy a gun. “I’m going shopping sat. Who wants to go. I’m buying a gun. Watch out world. Hahahaha.” The post caused some panic among parents with children attending Moore Elementary School, causing nearly […]

Whoever runs the purchasing department at the Dubai Police Department may have watched a lot of 1980s television, where shows like “Knight Rider,” “Airwolf, Street Hawk,” and “The Highway Man,” featured high-tech vehicles as key members of the cast. Perhaps unfettered by routine budget constraints that keep most police departments with both feet firmly planted […]

A controversial deal that connected Russian kickbacks to the Clinton foundation with a business takeover that gave the Russian government control of 20 percent of America’s uranium supply could face two congressional investigations. The scandal centers on evidence the FBI uncovered of a Russian bribery plot before the Obama administration approved a 2010 nuclear deal […]

A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with homicide by child abuse after a 1-month-old baby girl died on Oct. 17. Dakota Ash, 19, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon. His inmate record at the Douglas County Department of Corrections lists him as 6 feet tall and 220 pounds.     Officials told KETV […]

When disgraced film studio executive Harvey Weinstein heard a lawyer brought in by an AIDS charity to investigate a shady fundraising deal was looking into his sex life, he threatened to sue the board. Details of Weinstein’s fury over the possible investigation of his sex life came to light through documents from one of the […]

MGM Resorts International has no plans to rent out the 32nd-floor suite from where Stephen Paddock carried out the worst mass shooting in American history. The resort operator made a statement to that effect on Thursday as a judge weighing a civil suit from one of Paddock’s victims ordered the hotel to preserve evidence in […]

The charred remains of Doctor Scott Witt’s Toyota Tacoma at least show a semblance of what it once looked like. Not so for his family’s home. But what Dr. Witt lost was far less than what he saved when he evacuated newborn babies under his care from the hospital where he worked. Dr. Witt, the […]

On Oct. 1, Gus Castilla lost his 28-year-old daughter to a bullet fired from the Mandalay Bay hotel room where Stephen Paddock carried out his unfathomable crimes. Now the father wants some small measure of justice. Andrea Castilla, was the Huntington Beach woman who was fatally wounded during Paddock’s indiscriminate killing spree that claimed 58 […]

South Korea’s army laid out some of its war plans to parliamentarians there on Thursday, outlining how it would destroy North Korea’s front-line artillery systems and bombs—the regime’s SCUD missile facilities. The army’s said it would be able to meet those objectives quickly, according to coverage from South Korea’s largest news agency, publicly funded Yonhap […]

North Korea is lashing out over allegations it is using satellite launches to develop its ballistic missile program as it makes a push at the United Nations to legitimize the launches. North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador Kim In Ryong said North Korea’s five-year satellite plan is important to the country’s economic development. Speaking to a […]

Just over 40 years ago, Jeffrey Michels, 24, disappeared from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. Now, thanks to some help from a Facebook group that tracks down missing servicemen, Michels has been found—though he may have wished otherwise. Michels, now 65, was found after Veteran Doe, an online group that tracks down missing […]

Florida police have now released a dramatic 911 phone call and officer body camera footage that captures some of the last minutes of Brian Disario’s life. Disario shot family friend David James Armstrong while the two men were at Disario’s mother’s home in Port Richey on Oct 12. Disario’s mother, whose name has not yet […]

A Maltese investigative journalist who alleged Malta’s Prime Minister and top associates were using Panamanian companies to launder money died in a car bomb explosion on Monday, Oct. 16. Now her son, also an investigative journalist, is calling out those same figures and others, blaming a web of corruption and impunity for his mother’s violent […]

When Emmaus Greenwich, a homeless shelter that offers its residents meaningful work, shared the story of one of its members, the international press quickly latched on to one bizarre twist in the story. Now Malcolm Applegate, 62, has become an accidental international spokesman whose bizarre story of marital disharmony has brought attention to a charity […]

One of the men that helped negotiate the nuclear deal that North Korea secretly violated for years thinks the United States should go into negotiations again, and without any conditions. The only problem, in his view, is that North Korea isn’t likely to want to negotiate until it has proven a nuclear strike capability that […]