Currently around the world peace is on the rise for certain countries, including the very surprising and unlikely North Korea. The United States relations have sporadically improved regarding the Nuclear test sites that have wreaked havoc for the environment and North Korean civilians. The hostages held captive in North Korea are now released back to America, and now both leaders,… Read more »
Donald Trump will come face to face with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore on 12 June, the US president announced on Thursday. The summit – a first between a sitting US president and his North Korean counterpart – will be the stage for critical talks aimed at curbing North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme. Trump announced the details on… Read more »
North Korea has begun dismantling the country’s only known nuclear test site, according to satellite photos, following through on a promise made by leader Kim Jong-un ahead of his meeting with Donald Trump. The pictures, taken on 7 May, are “the first definitive evidence that dismantlement of the test site was already well underway”, according to a blog post by 38 North,… Read more »
In 1975, Xia Boyu lost his feet after giving his sleeping bag to a sick teammate during a high-altitude storm. Now aged 69, he became the second double amputee to scale Everest – and the first ever from the Nepalese side. Australian Steve Plain, meanwhile, set the record for the fastest climb of the highest mountains on seven continents. Plain’s… Read more »
The US secretary of state has made a second surprise visit to North Korea to finalise plans for a historic summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Mike Pompeo, who first travelled to North Korea as CIA chief in early April, is only the second sitting US secretary of state to visit the country. He arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday, for a visit… Read more »
China has filed a trade complaint against the US with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, over tariffs recently imposed on imports of steel and aluminium products. According to the complaint, China claims the duties of 25 per cent and 10 per cent on imports of steel and aluminium products respectively are inconsistent with provisions of the WTO’s General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade… Read more »
The International Monetary Fund has returned to its warnings about global debt, highlighting in its latest report that leverage across the planet is now higher than it was before the global financial crisis. In its latest Fiscal Monitor, the Fund estimates that global debt now stands at $164 trillion, equivalent to 225 per cent of GDP, up from a previous peak of 213 per… Read more »
At least 36 people have died in a bus crash in North Korea, according to Chinese officials who described it as a “major traffic accident”. Among the dead were 32 Chinese tourists and four North Koreans, China‘s foreign ministry said in a statement. Another two Chinese tourists were badly injured and were in “acutely serious condition”, it added. Footage on Chinese state broadcaster CCTV showed the mangled wreckage… Read more »
As of April 21st, Pyongyang claims that china will be bringing nuclear and ICBM testing to a halt. China has shut down northern test sites, in hopes to bring the overall use of nuclear testing to an end. Just recently North Koreas nuclear bomb testing site has collapsed leading geologists to believe the potential effect of “leaking radiation,” according to… Read more »
North Korea’s main nuclear test site has collapsed following its latest bomb test and could be at risk of leaking radiation, research by Chinese geologists has shown. As a result, the Punggye-ri site under Mount Mantap has been rendered unsafe for further testing and should be monitored, scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China have said. Their findings raise questions… Read more »