...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
has test-fired two strategic long-range cruise missiles into the sea, state media reports.
The reclusive state’s leader Kim
PudgeJong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
oversaw the drill, staged Sunday over the Yellow Sea, and urged "unlimited and sustained" development of his country’s nuclear weapons forces, the KCNA news agency reports.
It was apparently the first such test since early November.
The South Korean military detected the launch of multiple missiles from the Sunan area near Pyongyang, the Yonhap news agency says.
The goal of the exercise was to review the "counter-offensive response posture and combat capability of long-range missile sub-units," KCNA says.
Kim stated that the government and ruling party of North Korea "would as ever devote all their efforts to the unlimited and sustained development of the state nuclear combat force," the news agency adds.
North Korea staged a ballistic missile test on November 6, just over a week after US President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...— on a tour of the region — expressed interest in meeting with Kim. Pyongyang did not respond to the offer.