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SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday did not report on its launch of ...
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. senator has reintroduced a bill to expedit...
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WASHINGTON, May 26 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. military said Thursday that it is aware ...
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SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired one short-range ballistic missile to...
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SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic m...
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SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic m...
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North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) toward its eastern coast late Thursday, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). “At around 5 p.m., our military detected a short-range ballistic missile launched from the Wonsan area of North Korea toward the East Sea,” the JCS said in a message to journalists. South […]
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Sixty-three North Koreans defected to South Korea between January and June, a roughly 34% decline from the same period last year, the Unification Ministry said Thursday, reporting that all had gone through third countries rather than crossing directly. The new arrivals included 59 women and four men, according to ministry data. The figure represents just […]
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SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Yonhap) -- A total of 63 North Korean defectors entered South Kor...
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North Korea could soon send a dedicated missile unit to a western Russian region bordering Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s military intelligence agency, amid increasing reports that Pyongyang plans to ramp up military assistance to Moscow. “The aggressor state Russia intends to deploy a North Korean missile unit in the Voronezh region that will be equipped […]
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“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews and columns by North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years. Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing ask@nknews.org and including their first name and city of residence. Today’s question is about burglaries and what motivated […]
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Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, on Wednesday threatened Japan for transforming into a “war state,” citing Tokyo’s recent first-ever test-firing of a long-range Tomahawk cruise missile. In a statement issued through the state-run Korean Central News Agency, Kim criticized Japan’s test launch of a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise […]
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A full-scale conflict with North Korea could leave the Korean Peninsula littered with millions of explosive remnants of war (ERW), prompting the need for South Korea to adopt an integrated drone and artificial intelligence (AI) based clearance system, according to researchers from a government-funded think tank. A Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) report released […]
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More than 60 North Korean defectors who lived near the country’s nuclear test site were found to have chromosomal abnormalities, though researchers have yet to confirm a direct link to nuclear testing, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Unification. Radiation exposure tests conducted annually between 2017 and 2025 on 214 North Korean defectors from areas […]
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South Korea’s Drone Operation Command slashed drone training by over 50% and reduced spending by over $2 million since last year, a lawmaker from the country’s opposition party said Friday, arguing that Seoul’s counter-drone capabilities have weakened amid a reorganization effort. The command conducted 14 joint exercises with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and individual […]
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The 11 member states of a multilateral initiative monitoring DPRK sanctions evasion issued a joint alert for the first time on Friday about North Korean information technology (IT) workers’ illicit revenue generation activities. The advisory — issued by the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the U.K. […]
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South Korea has begun operating this year’s first batch of domestically developed Cheongung-II medium-range surface-to-air missile (M-SAM-II) systems, strengthening the country’s lower-tier missile defense against North Korean missile threats. Seoul’s Defense Ministry announced in a press release Monday that the first Cheongung-II battery scheduled for deployment this year entered full operational service two days earlier, […]
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The nominee to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) invoked the struggles of North Korean defectors during her confirmation hearing Thursday in Washington, D.C., telling lawmakers the impact American radio broadcasts had on those who would later flee the regime. “In Seoul, North Korean defectors told me that snippets of American radio were […]
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Pyongyang accused Washington of turning U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ) into a “de facto war command” aimed at a regional conflict as Tokyo announced it successfully conducted its first live-fire test of a Tomahawk cruise missile capable of striking North Korea. In a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday, Pyongyang referred […]
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Russia attacked Ukraine with a North Korean ballistic missile for the first time since last year, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday, shortly after Kyiv warned of a new wave of DPRK troop deployments and transfers of North Korean ballistic missile launchers to Russia. Multiple people, including children, were killed after the Russian-operated North Korean ballistic missile […]