North Korea launched two short range missiles, prompting concern among U.S. and South Korean officials. This is the first launch of North Korean missiles since President Trump entered North Korea less than a month ago.

North Korea, upset at upcoming U.S.-South Korea military drills, is threatening to end its 20 month suspension of nuclear and missile testing. Trump, who prizes his work with North Korea, may be tempted to give in to their pressure.

At least 30 North Korean escapees have been rounded up in a string of raids across China since mid-April, according to family members and activist groups. It is not clear whether this is part of a larger crackdown by China, but activists say the raids have disrupted parts of the informal network of brokers, charities, and middlemen who have been dubbed the North Korean “underground railroad.”

In reference to a letter that Kim sent to US President Donald Trump, Moon also said there were “interesting parts that President Trump didn’t disclose,” prompting the interpretation that North Korea has made a proposal for denuclearization that includes more concessions than simply shutting down its Yongbyon nuclear complex.

Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, had been an informant for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The former officials who this information came from also said Kim Jong Nam had been almost certainly in contact with security services of other countries, particularly China’s.

More than 300 sites used by the North Korean government to publicly execute its citizens have been identified in a new report. A South Korean nonprofit called Transitional Justice Working Group says it interviewed around 600 North Korean defectors over four years to reach its shocking findings.

Just days after he was reported to have been purged over Kim Jong Un’s failed nuclear summit with Donald Trump, a high-ranking North Korean official has been seen in public sitting alongside the country’s leader. It was reported last week that Kim Yong Chol was sentenced to hard labor and ideological re-education for the aborted talks.

While in Germany, Sec. of State Pompeo was asked about reports stating that Kim Jong Un had some of his envoys executed for the failed summit in Vietnam. Pompeo admitted he had seen the reports but had nothing to add except for, “We’re doing our best to check it out.”

The United States is attempting to check on reports that a senior North Korean official involved in Pyongyang’s non-proliferation talks with Washington has been executed, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday. “We’re doing our best to check it out. I don’t have anything else to add to that today.”

National security adviser John Bolton said Saturday that sanctions against North Korea must be kept in place after the rogue country violated a United Nations Security Council resolution when it test-fired short-range missiles last week.

North Korea said Friday that nuclear negotiations with the United States will never resume unless the Trump administration moves away from what Pyongyang described as “unilateral demands for disarmament.” “We hereby make it clear once again that the United States would not be able to move us even an inch with the device it is now weighing in its mind, and the further its mistrust and hostile acts toward the DPRK grow, the fiercer our reaction will be,” the NK Foreign Ministry statement said.

North Korea’s official state-news agency has released a statement on Joe Biden that reads like a Donald Trump tweet, calling the former vice president a “fool of low IQ.” It looks like Kim Jong Un might be spending a little too much time with the US President.

North Korea has called the U.S. seizure of its cargo ship last year an “unlawful robbery” and demanded that it be returned. U.S. officials first detained the ship, which was reportedly used to transport banned coal exports, in April 2018.

Early on the morning of May 9th, North Korea fired off two short-range missiles in quick succession, conducting its second such test in less than a week. The United States followed suit with a much bigger launch of its own just minutes later.

North Korea fired several “unidentified short-range projectiles” into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, prompting South Korea to call on its neighbor to “stop acts that escalate military tension on the Korean Peninsula.” Experts say the projectiles appeared to be multiple rocket launchers, not ballistic missiles.

At the request of North Korea, the UN conducted a food security assessment and found that food rations in North Korea are under 11 ounces per person each day. The recent harvest in North Korea was poor and experts believe that if North Korea does not improve the word famine will be used to described the food crisis.