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Elizabeth Taylor to be played by Serinda Swan in upcoming movie about real-life Korean War heroes By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 08:37 GMT, 5 February 2021 | Updated: 08:37 GMT, 5 February 2021 Elizabeth Taylor will be played by Ballers actress Serinda Swan in the upcoming Korean War movie Devotion. The film is about … Read more
Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress from Dear My Name and Golden Rainbow, passes away at 26 years old The actress was found dead in Seoul on Saturday at just 26 years of age While no cause of death was given, there has been a rash of suicides among young performers in their 20s in recent … Read more
A Kim Jong Promot-UN!: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is elected ‘general secretary’ of Workers’ Party – the same title held by his father and grandfather, up from mere ‘Chairman’ before Kim Jong Un was given a new title, ‘general secretary’ of the Workers’ Party Appointment is largely symbolic, apparently aimed at bolstering his … Read more
North Koreans face the gulag for using slang words after Kim Jong-un unleashed a bizarre new crackdown on ‘perverted’ language. The secretive state adopted the new measures in December, fearing that its teenage citizens were growing too comfortable with words popular in democratic South Korea. Now the authorities will inspect citizens’ phones, hunting for any … Read more
North Koreans face the gulag for using slang words after Kim Jong-un unleashed a bizarre new crackdown on ‘perverted’ language. The secretive state adopted the new measures in December, fearing that its teenage citizens were growing too comfortable with words popular in democratic South Korea. Now the authorities will inspect citizens’ phones, hunting for any … Read more
A North Korean parade has spelled out the message ‘defend with your life’ in a Pyongyang square in an apparent rehearsal ahead of a party congress in January. Satellite imagery showed the propaganda phrase being spelled out in Korean by people standing in formation and holding up red placards in Kim Il-sung Square. The think-tank … Read more
South Korea is the latest country to record its first cases of the new highly-infections UK variant of coronavirus brought in by three travellers from London. Officials have vowed to speed up the roll-out of a nation-wide coronavirus vaccination programme after detecting the new strain. The variant – thought to be more transmissible than others currently circulating – … Read more
Starving dogs who had to resort to cannibalism have been rescued from an illegal dog farm in South Korea. The dogs were caged in deplorable conditions on a junk yard farm in Gimpo where they were bred and sold for the dog meat trade. Many of the dogs were suffering from severe malnutrition with fragile bones … Read more
A North Korean fishing boat captain was executed in public for listening to a banned foreign radio station, it is claimed. The US government-funded Radio Free Asia claims the mariner was put to death after admitting he had listened to its broadcasts for more than 15 years. Aged in his 40s, the man had reportedly been … Read more
North Korean hackers target British Covid-19 vaccine producer AstraZeneca with multiple attempts to access staff computers Hackers posed as recruiters on LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach staff They sent documents laced with code to gain access to victims’ computers The hacking attempts are not thought to have been successful, sources say AstraZeneca is racing to deploy … Read more