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U.S. President Donald Trump used the anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement to warn of a renewed communist threat, saying the ideology behind North Korea’s June 1950 invasion is attempting to make headway “in the West.” In a 613-word White House statement marking Washington’s National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day on Tuesday, Trump honored […]
38 North |
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The international community should not treat every form of overseas Democratic People’s ... The post Not All Overseas Income Is Alike: DPRK Medical Workers and the Limits of Sanctions Equivalence appeared first on 38 North.
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Cyberattack attempts targeting the Korea Hana Foundation, a state-funded organization helping North Korean defectors resettle in South Korea, have surged more than sixfold in four years, according to a South Korean lawmaker Tuesday. The organization under South Korea’s Unification Ministry recorded 944 cyberattack attempts from January to July 15, exceeding the 817 record attempts all […]
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“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. Idam, a pseudonym for a defector who […]
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The U.S. submitted a motion to designate seven more vessels suspected of breaching the North Korean sanctions regime Monday, bringing the total number of ships awaiting blacklisting to 14, including a freighter that South Korea detained in March. The formal proposal designating sanction-breaking ships is Washington’s second after it lodged its first motion in December, […]
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An alternative school for North Korean defectors and their children will have a new home in Seoul after relocating three times in 22 years, thanks to support from the South Korean government and Hyundai Motor Group. Construction for the Yeomyung School in Seoul’s western district of Gangseo is scheduled for completion in 2029, and the […]
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For generations of North Koreans, Choe Tok Sin was not merely a former South Korean general who defected to Pyongyang: He was a familiar figure from one of the country’s best-known propaganda film series, a onetime enemy commander recast as a patriot who ultimately found his way back to Kim Il Sung. Yet decades earlier, […]
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The North Korean leader’s influential sister Kim Yo Jong dismissed calls by a consortium of Southeast Asian states to denuclearize as “stupid” and “foolish” Monday, days after Russia defended the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons during a regional security meeting in the Philippines. Kim’s remarks carried by the Korean Central News Agency referenced a statement […]
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Around 200 North Koreans began receiving artificial intelligence-generated phone calls this week, as part of a pilot program aimed at detecting signs of isolation, financial hardship and physical or mental health problems among those struggling to adapt to life in South Korea. The state-funded Korea Hana Foundation’s social adaptation department launched the project Tuesday to […]
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A South Korean court fined a North Korean defector over $6,700 for brokering money transfers from other defectors to their families still living in North Korea. The Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Court on July 15 imposed a $6,760 (10 million won) fine against Ju Su-yun after she was convicted of violating the Foreign […]
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After years of pandemic isolation and sparse political contact, North Korea and China are suddenly back in the business of summitry. A summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping last September has sparked a renewed wave of diplomacy, culminating in a reciprocal summit and a succession of party, government […]
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s son demands proof of mother’s life, urging world leaders to prioritize rights over diplomacy.
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South Korean authorities have detained a cargo ship over suspected violations of U.N. sanctions on North Korea, Seoul’s foreign ministry announced on Wednesday, months after the bust. The 10,730-ton Prada, formerly known as the Sophia, was detained after entering the South Korean port of Pyeongtaek in March, an ROK Foreign Ministry spokesperson told NK News. […]
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The top military commanders of the United States, South Korea and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea and pledged to deepen defense cooperation during an annual meeting at the Pentagon on Wednesday. U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman Gen. Jin […]
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Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Ki-ho Han, a research professor at the Ajou Institute of Unification Studies. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News. There is no greater folly than repeating the same mistakes and expecting a different outcome, and […]
Radio Free Asia |
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Experts say Beijing is invoking Japan’s wartime past to try to delegitimize Manila's South China Sea claims.
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vowed Tuesday to work toward a future where both Koreas can prosper in a speech marking the third annual Ministry of Unification ceremony recognizing North Korean-born citizens now living in the South. “I will do my utmost to establish lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula and open a future […]
NK News |
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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 how North Korean society […]
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Only 43 North Korean defectors entered South Korea in the first quarter of this year, according to data from the Unification Ministry, underscoring how Pyongyang’s tightened border controls continue to suppress defections. The arrivals consisted of two men and 41 women, according to figures posted on the ministry’s website, though officials declined to say how […]
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For decades, beef occupied a strange place in North Korean food culture: celebrated in state propaganda as part of the country’s proud culinary heritage, but largely absent from ordinary dining tables and reportedly restricted because cattle were too valuable for farm labor. However, that appears to be changing. As North Korea’s economy has stabilized under […]