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...In Seoul — which ended a war with the North, then led by Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, in 1953 with an armistice but not a formal peace treaty — anxiety is running high....
...As well as screenings and live performances, visitors are also invited to discover the city’s non-profit art spaces, which, according to curators Sungah Serena Choo and Kim Sung-woo, “are the core of generating...
...Lee Sung-jun, a military spokesperson, said on Tuesday that the claims “are not worth our attention”....
...Soon after the Soviet Union collapsed, Kim’s grandfather Kim Il Sung acquired the designs for a ground-launched version of the first Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missile, laying the foundations for...
...“We see ourselves as major players in the global defence industry to meet the urgent demands of key regions,” said Kim....
...June 9; further information and tickets here ‘Otello’, Oper Frankfurt A revival of director Johannes Erath’s 2011 staging of Verdi’s Otello, with the titular role sung by Korean tenor Alfred Kim and Georgian...
...Kim Yo Jong, a senior North Korean official and the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said Pyongyang had scrambled fighter jets on Monday after alleging that US spy planes had violated its airspace on eight...
...Kim Kum-mi puts in a titanic performance as Queen Hecuba, lamenting her losses in throaty song. Yi So-yeon is formidable as Cassandra and Choi Ho-Sung’s self-pitying Menelaus provides comic relief....
...Kim Sung-ho, a South Korean interior ministry official, told reporters on Monday the remaining attendees would be taken by bus to areas away from the projected path of Tropical Storm Khanun, which is expected...
...According to Jenkins’ memoir, the US servicemen were forced to study the teachings of North Korea’s founding ruler Kim Il Sung for 10 hours a day....
...Il Sung as premier UK: Last Night of the Proms broadcast live from London’s Royal Albert Hall Sunday Russia: local elections, with polls open in invaded Ukrainian provinces UK: TUC Congress begins in...
...After the news conference, Kishida took Yoon and South Korean first lady Kim Keon-hee to two dinners in Tokyo’s upmarket Ginza district....
...She is bringing works by more than 30 contemporary South Korean artists to London, including Na Ri Choi, Ha Jin Lee and Sung Hee Kim. “The artists do not pay to participate....
...Park Sang-hak, a human-rights activist, North Korean defector and the organiser of balloon flights into the East Asian country, said last month that he had used 20 balloons to fly 20,000 masks, 15,000 Tylenol...
...“North Korea fired more than twice as many missiles last year as were launched during the entirety of the reigns of former leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il put together,” says Jeongmin Kim, an analyst...
...The Korean war started in 1950 when Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, launched a disastrous invasion of the South....
...The US ambassador to Indonesia, Sung Kim, said in a speech on Tuesday the new rules could have a “negative impact on the investment climate”....
...Phaedra is a revival of the spare but powerful lockdown production staged by Warner for Covent Garden in 2020, powerfully sung and acted once again by Christine Rice....
...Kim Jong Un has long sought to associate himself in the minds of North Koreans with his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994 just as the country he had ruled with an iron fist descended into a brutal...
...One significant change that makes this work Sorey’s own is that the solo soprano is now a bass-baritone, sung by Davóne Tines. This is much more than a concert piece....
...“The sales reflected the value that was created,” says Kim....
...In the 1970s North Korea’s then ruler Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of present ruler Kim Jong Un, tasked his son and successor Kim Jong Il with establishing a cell within the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea...
..., not to mention the shopping lists (“One LP stereo of Old Irish songs, all sung by good old-fashioned Irish tenors or baritones or whatever....
...Here he opens the album with a Bassa-language version of Ariana Grande’s “One Last Time”, mostly sung a cappella over the slightest angular wooden reverberations, and later mumbles through a thick, dark,...
...Sung Il-jong, a ruling People Power party lawmaker, said that the repatriation proved that “the Moon administration was a friend of the Kim Jong Un regime”....
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