The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday lashed out at South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol and his administration for seeking more independent sanctions on Pyongyang.   Kim Yo-jong, vice president director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, even called Yoon’s administration a “faithful dog” to Washington as she criticized the South for labeling the North’s military exercise as a “provocation” and pushing to slap additional sanctions on Pyongyang.   “As soon as the U.S. talked about its ‘independent sanctions’ against the DPRK, South Korea parroted what the former said,” she said in an English-language

The Philippine Army has renewed its call to the New People’s Army (NPA) to stop engaging minors in their armed struggle against the government.   Maj. Gen. Camilo Ligayo made the appeal on Thursday after a rebel who recently surrendered disclosed there are minor combatants recruited by the communist group.   “Our young people should be in school and protected from all kinds of abuse. Imagine the trauma of a minor engaged in fighting, going hungry for days, lack of sleep and endless hiking for the ideology that has not helped even one NPA to succeed in life for almost

Rear Adm. Toribio Adaci Jr. on Thursday officially assumed as the Philippine Navy’s (PN) flag-officer-in-command.   He replaced Rear Adm. Caesar Bernard Valencia, who served in an acting capacity following the retirement of Vice Adm. Adeluis Bordado last September 9.   Adaci, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1989 thanked President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for his appointment.   “I would also like to thank the Commander-in-Chief and 17th President of the Republic of the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for this tremendous vote of confidence,” he said during the change-of-command ceremony at Naval Station Jose Andrada