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Photo Credit: KCNA/Yonhap North Korea is officially moving on. Details of the regime’s constitutional amendments adopted in March were disclosed this month by South Korea’s Ministry of Unification in Seoul. North Korea’s 15th Supreme People’s Assembly approved revisions that, for the first time in the country’s history, define its territory as “bordering the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south.” The amendme

Photo Credit: Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) North Korea’s state media has released new photos showing the supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s teenage daughter, Kim Ju Ae, aiming a rifle and riding a tank alongside her father. She has frequently accompanied him on visits to military-industrial sites, including facilities linked to missile production and nuclear weapons development. These appearances are unlikely to be accidental. In a system where imagery is tightly controlled, s