The Daily Populous

NORTH Korea has bizarrely claimed Kim Jong-un's dad invented burritos in 2011 — and despite food shortages sales of the dish were booming.

6 A mural shows Kim Jong-il in a kitchen where burritos are being prepared Credit: Credit: Pen News.

Away from propaganda, food shortages remain a big problem for North Korea, with Kim Jong-un himself acknowledging last June that the situation was “tense”. »

Landerholm has served as Ambassador to Latvia and the United Arab Emirates, and also as an MP for the centre-Right Moderate Party.

After his appointment, Mr Landerholm named Russia, China and Iran as three countries known to mount disinformation campaigns against Sweden, adding that the propaganda was often aimed simply to sow division within society and undermine trust in the authorities.

Previous reports for MSB have placed Russia's propaganda campaigns in Sweden within a broader push to polarise debate and sow disunity in Europe more broadly. »

North Korean officials are demanding handwriting samples from thousands of Pyongyang residents after graffiti appeared insulting supreme leader Kim Jong-un, a rare sign of discontent among the elite in the capital.

Operated by dissidents and defectors, the Seoul-based media outlet has a network of undercover “citizen reporters” in North Korea and China.

He was “barely scraping a living” working as a janitor in Seoul, according to a South Korean military official. »

Zagorodnyuk noted, as everybody in Kyiv does, that Russia already invaded Ukraine in early 2014.

On New Year’s Eve, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti tweeted a prediction: “Russia will destroy Ukraine within 10 minutes.”.

We could start with this one: Help make Ukraine the successful, prosperous, Western-facing democracy that Putin so clearly fears. »