David Choi

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North Korea launches short-range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast, in this photo issued by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on May 9, 2025. (KCNA) North Korea launched a series of short-range ballistic missiles Thursday during a nuclear counterstrike drill overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, in what state media said was a response to recent nuclear exercises by the United States and South Korea.

1 week ago | stripes.com | David Choi

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a Pyongyang weapons factory in this image released by the Korean Central News Agency on May 7, 2025. (KCNA) SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s authoritarian leader ordered his nation’s munitions factories to accelerate artillery shell production, even as state media boasted of new records set in munition production rates, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Wednesday.

1 week ago | stripes.com | David Choi

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervises a cruise missile test in this image issued by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Feb. 26, 2025. (KCNA) North Korea fired an unspecified number of short-range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Thursday morning, possibly to test their capabilities ahead of potential exports, according to the South’s military.

1 week ago | stripes.com | David Choi

Lee Jae-myung, leader of the opposition Democratic Party, said the Comprehensive Military Agreement signed on Sept. 19, 2018, should be reinstated. (Lee Jae-myung/Facebook) South Korea’s leading presidential candidate has pledged to restore a military deconfliction agreement with the North if elected, aiming to reduce rising tension on the Korean Peninsula.

2 weeks ago | stripes.com | David Choi

ScreenX shows movies, concerts, sports and short films on screens at the front, left, right — and now above — the audience in roughly 30 theaters across South Korea. (David Choi/Stars and Stripes) When CGV, South Korea’s largest multiplex cinema chain, announced in January that it would begin showing films on the world’s first four-screen movie display the same month, I was skeptical.