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US military must be ‘psyched’ for war with North Korea: Marine commander

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US Marine Corps Commander General Robert Neller said on Thursday in Washington, D.C. that the US military must be psychologically prepared for a war with North Korea. Neller said a war on the Korean peninsula would be an extremely bloody affair, but the Marine Corps commandant said of such a hypothetical conflict: “I wasn’t saying it’s going to happen. I hope it doesn’t happen, I don’t want it to happen”.

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North Korea condemns latest U.S. sanctions

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North Korea condemned the latest U.S. sanctions announced this week aimed at curbing the Nation’s development nuclear weapons. A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said the U.S. sanctions are “a manifestation of atrocious intention to throw a wet blanket over the inter-Korean exchange and cooperation and to aggravate the situation” and that the United States should stop such “anachronistic” policy towards North Korea.

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Onodera, Perly call for pressure on North Korea

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Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and his French counterpart, Florence Parly, agreed Saturday to maximize pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile development. The ministers also confirmed at a meeting in Tokyo that their countries will cooperate to maintain maritime order and promote Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy. Japan hopes to work to deepen its special partnership with France this year, including through mutual visits by President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Abe, Kono said.

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Japan tells U.N. of North Korean tanker suspected of sanctions busting

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Japan has told the United Nations about a North Korean tanker spotted in the East China Sea that it suspects was engaged in a transfer of goods with another tanker in defiance of U.N. sanctions. According to a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, the North Korean-flagged tanker “Rye Song Gang 1” – blacklisted by the United Nations last month for carrying banned cargo – was spotted by a Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force patrol plane with the Dominican-flagged tanker “Yuk Tung” tied up beside it in the East China Sea on Saturday. The two boats were lit up and some kind of activity was taking place, the Foreign Ministry said, adding that the Japanese government strongly suspected them of transferring goods in violation of the U.N. sanctions.

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U.S. imposes more North Korea sanctions; urges China, Russia expulsions

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The United States announced new sanctions aimed at stopping North Korea’s nuclear weapons development and urged China and Russia to expel North Koreans raising funds for the programs. The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on nine entities, 16 people and six North Korean ships it accused of helping the weapons programs. It said two China-based trading firms were involved in exporting millions of dollars worth of metals and other goods used in weapons production. “Treasury continues to systematically target individuals and entities financing the Kim regime and its weapons programs, including officials complicit in North Korean sanctions evasion schemes”, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

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Japan tells U.N. of North Korean tanker suspected of sanctions busting

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The Maritime Autodifesa Japanese Force has sighted in the East China Sea a possible traffic of banned goods between a North Korean oil tanker and another tanker, in defiance of the sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council. This is the revelation given to the United Nations countries by the Japanese Foreign Ministry, which expresses its concern. The North Korean oil tanker has also camouflaged his name so as not to be recognized.

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Big efforts being paid to scientific farming in DPRK

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The agricultural field of the DPRK has been pushed to do progress in scientific ambit, as part of the efforts to attain the target of grain production this year, the third year in implementing the five-year strategy for national economic development. Ri Kyong Rok, Vice Department Director of the Ministry of Agriculture, told that the Ministry and provincial, city and county agricultural guidance Organs are directing big efforts to producing good strains of seeds and expanding their cultivation area, while paying deep attention to planting dry-field rice highly resistant to lower temperature and drought in arable lands lack of water or not kind for maize cultivation in order to raise per-hectare yield. Meanwhile, many efforts have been paid to producing high-performance farm machines for potato and livestock farming,  laying a foundation for raising the rate of mechanization in farm work.

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S. Korean authorities warned not to put out hardly-kindled spark for improved North-South relations

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North Korea is now making all sincerity and efforts for the successful holding of the Winter Olympics due in south Korea in line with the unanimous expectation and wish of all Koreans. But South Korea conservative media and persons, adverse to this, said some dishonest things that seriously chilling the atmosphere for the north-south reconciliation created by the great magnanimity and the initiative steps taken by the DPRK. There were some comments calling the technical issues regarding the DPRK’s participation in the Olympics a “violation of sanctions on the north”. This obviously represents the unpleasant and uneasy mind of the U.S. and the south Korean conservative forces displeased with the trend for the improvement of the north-south relations created after entering the new year.

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Seven more North Korean bodies found on Japanese shore

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The Japanese police recovered seven bodies from a wooden boat on Tuesday, saying that the boat likely came from North Korea. Late last year, the number of North Korean fishing vessels found either on Japanese shores or in waters nearby increased dramatically. The rise in incidents came at the same time that a push by North Korean propaganda for fisherman to meet annual seafood quotas was recorded. According to Japan’s coast guard, it handled 104 cases of suspected North Korean vessels found adrift or aground in 2017.

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China’s Xi tells Trump hard-earned easing of tensions on Korean peninsula must continue

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China’s President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call on Tuesday that the hard-earned easing of tensions on the Korean peninsula must continue with the hope that the resumption of dialogue between North Korea and South Korea might prompt change in Pyongyang’s “destructive behavior”.

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