North Korea

NOVANEWS By Janet PhelanThe government of North Korea has leveled accusations that the U.S. is involved in germ warfare research and intends to deploy bacteriological weapons on a large scale. These accusations came in the wake of the recent revelations that the Pentagon mistakenly sent live anthrax to over 65 labs in the United States and also to labs in Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada and Great Britain. The Korean National News Agency, in a report published on June 4, 2015, called the anthrax “horrible white powder” which has the killing potential of “95 percent.” The report stated that “the US secretly introduced anthrax germs into south Korea for its experiment to seriously threaten the existence of mankind…” The report also stated that “The above-said anthrax germ experiments ...

NOVANEWS ‘Wrong as Often as Right’ Is Good Enough When Reporting on an Official Enemy By Jim Naureckas Global Research North Korea may have executed this general with anti-aircraft guns. Or he may be alive and well. The Washington Post thought you might like to read some guesses about him. The Washington Post (5/12/15) has a sensational story about North Korean Gen. Hyon Yong Chol: North Korea’s equivalent of a defense minister has been executed by anti-aircraft gun for insubordination and treason—including for sleeping during a meeting where Kim Jong Un was speaking, South Korea’s intelligence agency said Wednesday. Reporters Anna Fifield and Yoonjung Seo continue: The report, if true, would starkly illustrate the brutal extent to which the young North Korean leader is going to cons...

NOVANEWS By John Beacham Shin Dong-Hyuk I Belive i can Lie Shin Dong-hyuk, the West’s most celebrated North Korean defector, has been caught lying to the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and the world. Liar to liar. In 2013, Shin Dong-hyuk went on a world tour to help build a campaign against the DPRK. He stopped at the George Bush Institute in order to add his falsified stories to Bush’s “Freedom Collection.” According to his own statements, he purposefully falsified the main chronological and geographical aspects of his life story—a fantastic story of inhuman “gulags” in North Korea that has been broadcast all over the world as the central argument that Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in the words of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on North Korea, “Is the worst human rights ...

NOVANEWS By Agence France-Presse The US intelligence chief revealed Wednesday that he dined with the North Korean general believed responsible for hacking Hollywood studio Sony, during a secret mission to Pyongyang two months ago. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave a riveting account of the visit at a New York conference on cyber security days after the government imposed new sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for the late November attack. He said it was “the most serious cyber attack ever made against US interests” that could potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. He said on November 7, the first night of his mission to free two Americans, he dined with General Kim, “in charge of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, the RGB, who’s the...

NOVANEWS By John Beacham Members of the DPRK's Worker-Peasant Red Guard To me, the new sanctions make it once again very, very clear: In the conflict between North Korea and Washington, the United States is the aggressor. On the basis of an unsubstantiated allegation that the DPRK hacked Sony, President Obama decided to increase economic sanctions on one of the most sanctioned countries in the history of the world. That—in reality—is an unprovoked act of war. U.S. sanctions, in the service of U.S. imperialism, cause suffering and death and are often a precursor to barbarous military onslaughts that destroy entire countries. On the most basic level, we must all stand up and say that we refuse to let the DPRK become another Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. The defense of Korean soverei...