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The No. 1 rule of North Korea is, “Don’t be the first one to stop clapping.” Exception: Unless the subject is South Korea’s smash hit show Squid Game. While the dystopian series is the No. 1 show on Netflix in 90 countries, its not a big hit in North Korea, where it was slammed as a “sad reality of a beastly South…

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a prominent member of the Senate Foreign Relations committeee, said Saturday he would be "shocked" if North Korea's Kim Jong Un wasn't dead. Rumors have swirled worldwide in the last week on the state of Kim’s health. North Korea is a highly closed society, which means intelligence is often…

President Donald Trump may have 99 Problems, but a tweet ain’t one. The President was up bright and early on Sunday, communicating on Twitter and laying out some of the issues he faces. First and foremost, the “Impeachment Hearing Hoax,” as the Commander-in-Tweet calls it, was given a zing. House Democrats have…

UPDATE: President Donald Trump took 20 steps into North Korea on Sunday, becoming the first sitting US president to visit that country. Trump shook hands with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un as he stepped over the stone curb separating North and South Korea. The DMZ session included a 50-minute private meeting in a…

Bong Joon-Ho’s multi-genre comedy-thriller Parasite takes aim at a number of themes occurring in our world, from class struggle to global warming. But criticizing North Korea isn’t one of the movie’s dominant motifs according to the director. Parasite follows a struggling family who worm themselves into the good…

UPDATED with Donald Trump response: President Donald Trump tried to tweet his way out of the corner into which he painted himself when he said he does not hold Kim Jong Un responsible for Otto Warmbier’s death, taking the North Korean ruler at his word that he did not know what was happening to the college student. If…

Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election will block us from "peace and legislation," President Donald Trump threatened in his State of the Union address. "Another 300,000 jobs" were added to the U.S. economy last month," Trump crowed, calling it "almost double the number expected," as…

UPDATED throughout with more details: Nearly four years after it jolted Hollywood and threw a wrench into international relations, the Sony hack is once again taking center stage. The Department of Justice today unsealed a criminal complaint against a North Korean computer programmer who conducted sophisticated cyber…

Though North Korea still has the all of warheads and missile systems it had before Donald Trump sat down with dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday, POTUS this morning tweet-boasted “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” “A long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took…

For the 12th time since Saturday, President Donald Trump tweeted this morning at length about Robert Mueller’s investigation, or as he now calls it, the “Rigged Witch Hunt,” before apologizing to his base that he would have to take a break from that topic to turn his attention to the upcoming North Korea…

The 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival is in full swing and I just spend 11 straight hours in theatre seats catching it all. Christopher Nolan sat for a two hour “Rendez-Vous” , or what used to be called a master class Saturday afternoon at the Bunuel theatre which was , to put it mildly, a mob scene. You would think…

Donald Trump said he believes North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wants to bring "his country into the real world" after overseeing the release of three American detainees Thursday. Trump and his wife Melania were at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to greet Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, who were released as…