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North Korean Ambassador to Malaysia, Kang Chol told reporters that Malaysia is helping Pyongyang's enemies and that they would reject the outcome of the postmortem conducted on King Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has scaled the country's highest mountain, state-run media said Sunday (Apr 19), arriving at the summit to tell troops that the hike provides mental energy more powerful than nuclear weapons. A photo of the leader of the isolated state showed a smiling and wind-swept Kim standing on a snow-covered mountaintop, the sun rising behind him.

The sombre mood at a Hong Kong viewing of the live broadcast of Lee Kuan Yew's state funeral yesterday was momentarily broken by a Kim Jong-un impersonator and activist. Shouts of "crazy" and "get out" broke out from the crowd as security guards ushered the man away after he took the stage at Central Plaza and called Singapore's founding prime minister "the world's greatest dictator" and cried out, satirically, "long live one-party rule in Singapore".

North Korea has sent their condolences to Singapore on Tuesday over the death of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, reported news agency Yonhap. Premier Pak Pong-ju called him a "close friend" of the communist country, said (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in a brief English report.

Some 100,000 North Koreans have staged a demonstration in Pyongyang against the UN resolution seeking to bring human rights violations in North Korea under the international justice system, media reported Wednesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, using a cane for support, visited a housing development, state media reported on Tuesday, ending a lengthy absence from public view that had fueled speculation over his health and grip on power in the secretive country.

"The Ministry of State Security has conducted an operation aimed at identifying Jang Sung-taek’s supporters after his execution last December and has identified 200 main supporters and 1,000 followers," the newspaper writes. It notes that about 1,000 members of their families will be sent to concentration camps without trial on charges of complicity. "Among those who will be sentenced to death there are 200 officials from the Labor Party, government and army, which received orders directly from Jang Sung-taek. Executions will be held at the shooting-ground of the Kang Kon Military Academy before the eyes of senior officials of the party, government and army," writes the newspaper. Seven more people executed in North Korea

On the Tree-Planting Day two years ago, Marshal Kim Jong Un gave instructions to turn the mountains and fields of the country into a fairyland of socialism with thick woodlands and greenery while planting together with service personnel with great care the trees he personally brought. Workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, agricultural workers and members of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, officials and members of the Democratic Women's Union of Korea and school youth and children met on Maran Hill and at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Site, the arboretum of the Central Botanical Garden and the April 15 Children's Flower Garden on Sunday.

On the 20th August 1978, five women were kidnapped in Singapore. Two men claiming to be Japanese asked an escort agency to send five young women to join in on a party on their boat. These young hostesses aged from 19 to 24 years old disappeared, along with the boat, without a trace. There were four Malaysians: Yeng Yoke Fun (22) Me Yap Leng (22), Seetoh Tai Thim (19), Margaret Ong Guat Choo (19), and a Singaporean, Diana Ng Kum Yim, (24).