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Matched Keyword: diplomacy
NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park opens this week’s episode by discussing the first session of the new Supreme People’s Assembly, which reappointed Kim Jong Un as North Korea’s head of state and carried out a generational reshuffle of officials. He also discusses Pyongyang’s increasingly hardline rhetoric toward South Korea and the U.S., Kim Yo […]
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Matched Keyword: terrorism
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accused the U.S. of carrying out state terrorism on Monday in apparent reference to its attacks on Iran, while repeating that South Korea is the “most hostile state” at a session of the country’s rubber-stamp parliament. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that Kim is still “prepared to […]
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Matched Keyword: sanctions
Canada will deploy a patrol aircraft to Japan this month to monitor North Korea’s illicit maritime activities in violation of U.N. sanctions, Tokyo’s Defense Ministry announced Monday. Canada’s CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft will carry out surveillance against ship-to-ship transfers involving DPRK vessels and other illegal activity from an unspecified date later this month to early […]
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Matched Keyword: defectors
Nearly three dozen North Korean defectors who lived near the country’s nuclear test site have shown signs of chromosomal abnormalities, although researchers have not established a direct link to the tests, according to Seoul. Radiation exposure tests conducted in 2024 on 35 North Korean defectors from areas near the Punggye-ri nuclear test site found that […]
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Matched Keyword: diplomacy
The North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong slammed Japan for seeking a summit with Pyongyang on Monday, reiterating her previous rejection of diplomacy with Tokyo. In a statement issued through the state-owned Korean Central News Agency, Kim criticized Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for broaching the subject of a DPRK-Japan summit during her visit […]
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Matched Keyword: sanctions
Chinese firms have boasted on social media of supplying North Korea with products ranging from TVs and smartphones to electric vehicles, NK News has found, in apparent violation of international sanctions. Recent posts on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, suggest that the Guangzhou-based Huaju Electric Appliance Company is exporting ultra-thin TVs to North Korea. […]
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Matched Keyword: defectors
SEOUL, March 23 (Yonhap) -- A quarter of North Korean defectors from regions nea...
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Matched Keyword: air defense
Ukraine can provide South Korea with invaluable battle-tested expertise for deterring North Korea in exchange for military aid like anti-air defense systems that are in short supply due to Russia’s invasion, members of Ukrainian security think tanks said Friday. Experts from the Kyiv-based New Europe Center and New Geopolitics Research Network made the remarks at […]
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Matched Keyword: drone
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a combined infantry and tank drill on Thursday, inspecting what state media described as an “incomparably superior” new main battle tank and observing enemy drone attack simulations as part of “war preparations.” Accompanied by senior DPRK defense officials, Kim visited the Capital Defense Corps’ Pyongyang Training Base No. […]
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Matched Keyword: sanctions
A British cryptocurrency entrepreneur wanted by the FBI for allegedly conspiring to breach North Korea sanctions gave a speech at a pro-DPRK event in Moscow, raising questions about his support for Pyongyang. Christopher Emms spoke about the use of modern technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) for “preserving sovereignty” at a conference organized by the DPRK […]
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Matched Keyword: diplomacy
North Korea has leveraged its deepening military partnership with Russia and renewed diplomacy with China to bolster its economy and military, while continuing to expand its nuclear and missile arsenal with weapons capable of reaching the U.S. homeland, according to a new U.S. intelligence report. The 2026 Annual Threat Assessment released by the Office of […]
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Matched Keyword: air defense
U.S. troops held air defense drills at a key air base outside Seoul as part of the large-scale Freedom Shield exercise, amid questions about how the possible redeployment of American missile defense assets could impact the military’s ability to counter North Korea. The March 11 air defense drill involved the Patriot missile system and Avenger […]
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Matched Keyword: defectors
“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with 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 asks about the increasing prominence […]
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Matched Keyword: missile
North Korea launched a salvo of around 10 ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Saturday, the ROK military reported, marking the first ballistic missile test since January. The unspecified ballistic missiles were launched from the Sunan area near Pyongyang and flew toward the East Sea, or Sea of Japan, at 1:20 p.m. KST, according […]
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Matched Keyword: nuclear weapons
The U.S. has sanctioned a North Korean technology company, a Vietnam-based firm and six individuals over their roles in IT worker schemes to raise money for Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. Thursday’s action by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) marks the latest step in its drive to disrupt networks that place North […]
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Matched Keyword: food
North Korea’s winter crops have benefitted from favorable weather, a U.N. report found, leaving the country well positioned for the annual lean period amid persistent food insecurity concerns. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) concluded in a report published Tuesday that North Korea saw “generally favorable” weather conditions between October to February, which allowed […]
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Matched Keyword: border closures
A Chinese passenger train on Thursday traveled from China’s Dandong into Sinuiju in North Korea for the first time in six years, videos circulating on Chinese social media show, marking the resumption of the service between the two countries since the strict border closures of the COVID-19 pandemic. The train’s departure came a day after […]
NK News |
Matched Keyword: defectors
“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with 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: What happens when you […]
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Matched Keyword: cruise missile
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a cruise missile test from the country’s newest destroyer on the west coast on Tuesday, according to state media, the second such test in the last week. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Wednesday that Kim executed the launch remotely in order to test command and control […]
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Matched Keyword: sanctions
International efforts to counter North Korean cryptocurrency theft are too reactive and must shift toward prevention to close off funding sources for the regime, according to a former U.S. sanctions official, stressing that the DPRK’s ability to innovate continues to outpace authorities’ capacity to respond. In an interview with NK News, Dawson Law, a former […]