The pictures of Xi and Kim side by side during the state welcoming ceremony for Xi in Kim Il Sung Square in the traditional North Korean Baekdu bloodline style surprised me.

단독]30대 남성 “北 공개 무인기, 내가 날렸다” / 채널A / 뉴스A (Source Channel A News, 1.17.26) The drones in September 2025 and January 2026 failed, the November drone flight was "successful."

Breaking: South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik exchanged greetings with Kim Jong Un this morning before China's military parade, according to his office, as per Yonhap News. A rare moment of direct South-North contact in years. https://t.co/440HXkSjvc

North Korea Warns Over Strategic Bombers

A pair of American B-52H bombers was escorted by two Japanese F-2 fighter aircraft and two South Korean KF-16 fighter jets during a trilateral flight on Friday, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. It was the third such flight between the allies this year.

Early Tuesday morning North Korea launched a missile that went OVER Japan. Naturally people freaked out.

As Rachel Maddow would say, "Russia!Russia!Russia!"
Consider this recent WashPost headline: Russia secretly offered North Korea a nuclear power plant, officials say

Peace is only good if it's proposed by someone with a (D) next to their name, so at least a couple of outraged (D) Senators have decided to take matters into their own hands.

Senators move to prevent Trump from removing US troops in South Korea

Here's the headline: