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K-pop.Yesterday (Wednesday May 29), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs Of Staff (JCS) claimed the supreme leader of North Korea had floated more than 260 balloons across the border since Tuesday (May 28).According to a JCS official, the fallen inflatables contained “various pieces of trash, such as plastic bottles, batteries, shoe parts and even manure” (via the Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency). No damage has been reported as of yet.Reuters noted that North Korean defectors and activists in South Korea “regularly” send balloons containing anti-Pyongyang leaflets, food, medicine, money and USB sticks loaded with K-pop music videos and dramas across the border.North Korea had warned last Sunday (May 26) that it would send “mounds of wastepaper and filth” over to South Korea in a “tit-for-tat” retaliation (via Consequence).The JCS said this marked the largest number of North Korean balloons sent into the South, following similar instances between 2016 and 2018.In response to the latest action, the military deployed personnel from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear response teams, as well as bomb disposal units to collect the objects for a detailed analysis.“These acts by North Korea clearly violate international law and seriously threaten our people’s safety,” the JCS said.

Elton John has said he thought Donald Trump referring to Kim Jong Un as “little rocket man” was “brilliant”.The former President used John’s 1972 single ‘Rocket Man’ as the inspiration for his nickname for the North Korean dictator, and in an interview with Variety at the Toronto Film Festival, the singer has given his view on his song being used in the back-and-forth.“I laughed, I thought that was brilliant,” he said. “I just thought, ‘Good on you, Donald.’ Donald’s always been a fan of mine, and he’s been to my concerts many, many times. So, I mean, I’ve always been friendly toward him, and I thank him for his support.

Ethan Shanfeld Several years after Donald Trump called Kim Jong Un “Little Rocket Man,” Elton John has weighed in on his hit song being the inspiration for the North Korean dictator’s nickname. “I laughed, I thought that was brilliant,” John told Variety‘s Ramin Setoodeh in an interview at Toronto Film Festival. “I just thought, ‘Good on you, Donald.’ … Donald’s always been a fan of mine, and he’s been to my concerts many, many times.

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Fall Out Boy have released an updated version of Billy Joel’s song ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ in order to, I don’t know, highlight how lists are still a thing, or something.Joel’s original song was released as a single in 1989 and listed 118 people and events from politics, culture, science and sport that had proven notable between 1949, the year when Joel was born, and the year of the track’s release.So, your first verse goes like this: “Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe, Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye, Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye”.Anyway, it’s now 34 years since Joel released the song. So, to mark this, erm, milestone, Fall Out Boy have recorded a new version, listing significant things that have happened since 1989.

Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer has blasted Donald Trump for claims he made about the late royal. The former US President has claimed his new book Letters to Trump will feature missives from Diana, the late Queen Elizabeth II, Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un - among others.

thrives on attention from fellow famous peeps. Now, Trump is printing his celebrity Rolodex in a new book featuring 150 private letters sent to him by Oprah Winfrey, Kim Jong Un and other high-profile figures.The “colorful photo book captures the incredible, and oftentimes private correspondence, between President Donald J.

We think she's 10 years old and we think we know her name, but those details are only known because of the former basketball player Dennis Rodman after he spoke to a newspaper a decade ago revealing the identity of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's youngest daughter. She has now been seen in public in North Korea at military events and parades, but why has Kim Jong Un decided to bring her out now?On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson explores what it means for the secretive North Korean leader to reveal his daughter in public.

North Korea has fired two short range missiles toward its eastern coast hours after the U.S. military concluded military training exercises with South Korea. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement they detected the two missiles launched between 1:48 a.m.

Vladimir Putin bathes in blood from the antlers of Siberian red deer to stop himself ageing. The brutal practice is thought to improve men’s libido and keep them looking young.Deer farmer Ludmila Korotkhih said: “It’s not a drug.

North Korea fired an unspecified ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Thursday morning local time, just two days after Pyongyang sent an intermediate-range ballistic missile flying over Japan, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.  About 40 missiles have been launched by North Korea this year, including six in the past two weeks, but Tuesday's test marked the first time in five years that the country has sent a missile over Japan.  The U.S. and South Korea staged joint drills on Wednesday in response, with the USS Ronald Reagan moving into waters east of South Korea.

North Korea may conduct a nuclear test is certainly real, according to the Japanese government.Earlier this week, North Korea launched a ballistic missile that had passed over Japan and ended up landing in the Pacific Ocean.In a press conference on October 4, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said he believes Kim Jong Un and North Korea could potentially conduct a nuclear test.READ MORE: US and South Korea launch four missiles in response to North Korea but one failsHe said: "I think there is a possibility that North Korea will carry out additional provocations, including conducting a nuclear test, but will not comment on specific information and analysis. I will refrain."Minister Matsuno added: "We will continue to work closely with the U.S.

President Biden on Friday night will host a concert by superstar Elton John on the White House lawn — providing the exclusive venue for the filming of a TV special.Biden and first lady Jill Biden will speak at the 8 p.m. concert put on by A&E Networks, which will then air the special at an undisclosed future date.“Tonight, as you all know, we will be welcoming Sir Elton John,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at her regular press briefing — after journalists heard mic checks from the adjacent driveway.

Kim Jong-Un's assets and whereabouts has pinpointed the location of his missiles and palaces.Expert Jacob Bogle has spent just shy of a decade charting and creating an exhaustive map of North Korea in the hopes of pinpointing key locations in the rogue state.A total of 64,400 locations were named and verified on the detailed map of what could be the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK).READ MORE: Google Maps shows off North Korea's mansions and yachts for mysterious eliteSuch a map has since identified the locations of very private, high-security areas useful to North Korean dictator Kim-Jong Un including ballistic missile bases and palaces. Speaking to Vice on the creation of his map, Jacob said: "I've created the most comprehensive map of North Korea available to the general public.

North Korea are a tad strapped for holidaying excursions, and have resorted to riding birds and visiting waterfalls.While some of these destinations under the watchful eye of North Korean despot Kim-Jong Un will give Center Parcs a run for their money, they are not the sun, sand and sea usually sought out by holidaymakers.Less-than stellar-looking beaches as well as incredibly small waterfalls mark a handful of holiday destinations for North Korean residents.READ MORE: Russia promoting 'Siberian staycation' to Putin's personal hotspots following flight banBut they do have the benefit of ostrich riding pens, which marks one popular hotspot for North Korean residents looking to stretch their legs with a few days of rest and relaxation.Ostrich farms that let visitors ride, buy and even eat the ostriches are open to foreign tourists should westerners fancy a holiday excursion to North Korea. The usual additions of museums and swimming pools were also seen to be on offer, including Munsu Water Park in North Korean capital Pyongyang.

North Korea is a nuclear weapons state.The North Korean leader vowed that the country would “never give up” its nuclear weapons, the hermit state's media reported Friday (September 9).Nuclear weapons represent the “dignity, body, and absolute power of the state,” Kim said.READ MORE: Russia will be like 'North Korea on steroids' when Putin is replaced - Kremlin adviser“The adoption of laws and regulations related to the national nuclear force policy is a remarkable event as it’s our declaration that we legally acquired war deterrence as a means of national defence.“As long as nuclear weapons exist on Earth, and imperialism and the anti-North Korean manoeuvres of the US and its followers remain, our road to strengthening our nuclear force will never end.”His actions mark a shift from previous legislation that stated would keep its weapons only until other countries denuclearized.The older laws also said that North Korea would not use nuclear weapons preemptively against non-nuclear states.But now, Kim has enshrined the right for his country to use preemptive nuclear strikes to protect itself.The new law also bans the sharing of nuclear technology with other countries, CNN reported.Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said the stance demonstrated Pyongyang’s schemes of strengthening ties with China and Russia at a time of high international tension.

Kim Jong Un has been enjoying a holiday on one of his many megayachts.The apparent vacation is the likeliest explanation for the North Korean leader not making an appearance on state media for 13 days and it follows the 19-day break he took last month. His latest absence comes at a time when many parts of his country have been hit by floods, which have reportedly damaged a major construction project and crops.READ MORE: Shocking moment OnlyFans model attacks boyfriend in elevator months before his deathPlanet Labs imagery shows that Kim's 180-foot (55-metre) megayacht was docked at a beach on the Hodo Peninsula, north of Wonsan, from August 3 to August 5.

Kim-Jong Un has banned citizens from wearing tight trousers — because he fears the garments are 'indecent'.The Supreme Leader of North Korea issued the fashion decree after increasing numbers of young people were spotted wearing skinny jeans.But the newfound popularity for skin-tight trousers, which appears to have finally caught on several years after the height of the 'hipster' trend in the West, has drawn the ire of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League.The state-run youth organisation has reportedly began filming women in their 20s and 30s who wear the offending item before taking them to task, reports The Sun.After being caught in the act, the ladies are hauled into local branches of the SPYL for a Stalinesque self-criticism session, where they are made to write out letters promising not to wear them ever again.Once released, the footage of them in the trousers is held on to by League members and used as instructional material.In one video, the women were even described as having “indecent clothes” and “impure ideology”. Other forbidden looks include dyed hair, mullets, shirts featuring Western brands and facial piercings.

North Korea as they wait to see if the secretive country will hold a military parade to mark the birthday of its founder, Kim Il Sung.Such parades are not rare in the country, with paranoid dictator Kim Jong Un – Kim Il Sung’s grandson – often keen to show off his military capabilities, but there hasn’t been one for seven months.There were reports of jets and helicopters being heard flying low over the centre of the capital Pyongyang on Thursday night, and roads were apparently closed in parts of the capital, suggesting a spectacular event was getting under way.But soldiers appeared to be continuing their parade training at a military base in the city this morning, with NK News reporting that they didn’t march through the city last night after all.NK News says a parade could take place tonight instead.In recent years, North Korea has held its military parades at night before broadcasting an edited version on state TV a few hours later, reports The Japan Times.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The waiting game comes as the current leader Kim has been ramping up tensions in the region once again.Last month he was snapped laughing and joking as his forces tested an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time since 2017, and reports have suggested the country is gearing up for its first test of a nuclear bomb in nearly half a decade.The United States has recently sent an aircraft carrier group to the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan for the first time since 2017.

North Korean's despotic leader Kim Jong Un have stolen more than £500 million in cryptocurrency.And amazingly, the North Korea-based group did it all with one single hack which has been labelled the “biggest to ever hit the crypto world”.The group has been identified by the FBI as the Lazarus Group, who joined with APT38 to steal £469 million from popular online game Axie Infinity, which lets crypto fans earn the currency through gaming or trading with own avatars. The FBI said: “Through our investigations we were able to confirm Lazarus Group and APT38, cyber actors associated with North Korea, are responsible for the theft.” And a United States Treasury Department spokesman told Reuters: “The United States is aware that the DPRK has increasingly relied on illicit activities - including cybercrime - to generate revenue for its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs as it tries to evade robust US and UN sanctions.” As a result of the hack, US officials called on the UN to freeze the Lazarus Group's assets.

North Korea appeared to have fired a short-range multiple rocket launcher on Sunday, March 20 amid rising tension on the Korean peninsula, South Korea's military said. In response, South Korea said it was "maintaining a readiness posture" following Kim Jong Un's latest test."This morning there was firing in North Korea which is assumed to be multiple rocket launcher shots, and our military was monitoring the related situation and maintaining a readiness posture," South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, without elaborating.North Korea's military fired four shots around 7:20 am (22:20 GMT on Saturday) for about an hour toward its west coast from an unidentified location in South Pyongan Province, Yonhap news agency reported.Pyongyang has conducted an unusually high pace of missile launches this year, Reuters reported.The US alleged that the country has been testing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which have a minimum range of 5,500km (3,417 miles) and are specifically designed to carry nuclear warheads.