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South Korea plans to investigate North Korean incursions across the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) in order to formally declare them violations of the Korean War armistice, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday, following the Sept. 21 mine explosion that injured three ROK soldiers. The ministry outlined the plan in…
North Korea has renamed a government agency tasked with preserving the country’s culture to drop a reference to a shared Korean ethnic identity, in the latest example of Pyongyang’s abandonment of its reunification policy. The agency formerly known as the Bureau for the Protection of National Cultural Heritage…
North Korean and Russian scientists have found signs that endangered leopards and tigers are living in the DPRK and will join hands to search for the animals, a Russian nature reserve has announced. The revelation came during a three-day visit by a delegation from the DPRK Ministry of Land and Environment Protection…
An unknown prankster appears to have hacked the voicemail of the North Korean mission to the U.N., NK News has confirmed, recording a profane greeting that mocks the country and its persistent food shortages. CNN was first to report on the satirical message that plays after calling the phone number of the DPRK’s…
NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park and Michael Bosack, former deputy secretary of the U.N. Command Military Armistice Commission, join the podcast this week to discuss the Sept. 21 landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), what investigators have established about the North Korean mine involved and why…
North Korea on Tuesday condemned South Korea’s final investigation into a land mine explosion near the inter-Korean border that injured three soldiers and warned that its forces would respond to any South Korean demining activity that crosses into the North’s territory. In a statement issued through the state-run…
South Korea’s highest court has acquitted a North Korean defector who helped facilitate money transfers to family members in the North, marking the court’s first such ruling in a remittance case. The Supreme Court of Korea on Thursday dismissed the prosecution’s appeal and finalized the acquittal against the defector…
An apology from Ukraine for publicly disclosing the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea has fallen short of Seoul’s expectations, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun told lawmakers Tuesday. “I cannot say that there was no apology,” Cho said in response to a question from ruling Democratic Party lawmaker…
North Korea has relied heavily on counterfeit U.S. and European parts to produce missiles and drones used in the war against Ukraine, a new report has found, suggesting that sanctions are limiting Pyongyang’s ability to source original components. The U.K.-based Conflict Armament Research (CAR) project analyzed North…
South Korea’s military has concluded that plastic, North Korean anti-personnel mines “deliberately buried” south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) caused the Sept. 21 blasts that injured three ROK troops, announcing the final results of a joint investigation with the U.N. Command (UNC). At a briefing on Monday…
President Donald Trump on Saturday touted his relations with nuclear-armed nations, specifically North Korea, as the U.S. State Department reaffirmed his willingness to diplomatically engage with the DPRK. Speaking at a 2026 midterm election campaign rally in Ohio, Trump said he got “along great with Kim Jong Un” and…
Russia has agreed to finance training programs for North Korean first responders in Vladivostok for the next five years, according to a government decree, following an agreement last year to exchange drone and rescue tactics. The Russian government instructed the Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) to organize the…
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry has denounced a new U.N. report on human rights abuses in the country, accusing U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres of following “hostile forces” that distort the facts about its record. In a statement released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday, a ministry…
North Korea’s 2026 Asian Games campaign was a study in contrasts: Its 29-medal haul fell short of its previous performances, but a dominant weightlifting team delivered all seven of the country’s gold medals and proved the DPRK remains a force to be reckoned with in the sport. North Korea ranked 12th in the overall…
A North Korean military official met a Taliban counterpart on the sidelines of a Russian military exercise and weapons expo last week, where the DPRK joined Afghanistan and dozens of other countries as an observer. The Russian Defense Ministry announced Saturday that North Korea was among the 33 states that dispatched…
North Korea launched a missile toward waters off its eastern coast on Saturday, with the weapon striking a designated target about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) away in the East Sea (Sea of Japan), according to the country’s state media Sunday. The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the…
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said North Korea conducted an intermediate-range strategic missile drill Saturday, claiming its maneuvering flight prevented South Korean and Japanese militaries from tracking its full trajectory. “At dawn of this morning, a drill of firing a…
North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Saturday, according to South Korean and Japanese authorities. A ballistic missile launched from the Wonsan area of North Korea toward the East Sea was detected at around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister Kim Yo Jong on Friday accused South Korea of seeking to inflame tensions by blaming Pyongyang for a recent explosion at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), insisting that Pyongyang’s goal is to sever all ties with Seoul and close its border so tightly that “even wild…
South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young warned against politicizing the Sept. 21 mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that left several soldiers injured and argued the incident should not be used to undermine Seoul’s efforts to pursue peace with North Korea. “Stoking hatred and hostility is not…
For two North Korean soldiers who spent over a year in the hands of Russia and Ukraine, arriving in South Korea was supposed to mark the beginning of a new life. Instead, the political feud surrounding their transfer has thrust them into the international spotlight — raising fresh questions about their safety, the…
North Korea’s recent economic growth and leader Kim Jong Un’s repeated nods to addressing a widening regional “wealth gap” suggest the time may be right to build a new bridge linking the country’s main port city on the west coast to the southern provinces. There are currently no bridges across the Taedong River…
A North Korean television channel recently aired a segment from Disney’s “Frozen II” movie to teach English vocabulary and expressions, despite the country’s ongoing crackdown on foreign media, according to NK News analysis of state media. Ryongnamsan TV on Monday aired about seven minutes of the movie in English…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday expressed his condolences to soldiers injured in Sept. 21 mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) while reaffirming his push to restore dialogue with North Korea, despite a finding by Seoul and the U.N. Command (UNC) that the explosion violated the armistice…
A South Korean county recently cremated the body of a suspected North Korean child found dead on an island earlier this year. The unidentified boy, believed to be around six years old, was cremated on Sept. 23 after South Korea’s Oceans Ministry notified Ganghwa County to take account of the unclaimed remains, a…
“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 [email protected] and including their first name and city of residence. Today’s question is about…
NK News Data Correspondent Anton Sokolin and Lead Correspondent Shreyas Reddy join the podcast this week to discuss Russia’s new ambassador to North Korea, Pyongyang’s latest cyber operations and the growing dispute between Seoul and Kyiv over two North Korean prisoners of war. Anton explains what the arrival of…
Talks between the United States and North Korea have an equal chance of taking place around the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit scheduled November in China, according to a lawmaker Wednesday, citing an assessment from South Korea’s intelligence agency. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) believes…
The U.N. Command (UNC) on Wednesday determined North Korea’s land mine that exploded on South Korea’s side of the western section of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Sept. 21 violated the Armistice Agreement. The UNC said in a statement that it conducted joint on-site investigations with the South Korean military and…
North Korea and Russia have signed a deal to mutually recognize university degrees in a bid to boost academic exchanges, according to Moscow, alongside a series of cooperation agreements reached between Russian and DPRK universities in Pyongyang. The agreement was signed during the second Forum of University Rectors…
North Korea claimed it is not responsible for a landmine explosion that injured South Korean soldiers in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) this month, according to a statement by the leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday morning. In a statement titled “Those Behind the…
A Seoul-based human rights group has accused North Korea of running a secret prison beneath its embassy in Beijing to interrogate North Koreans suspected of attempting to defect before forcibly repatriating them to the DPRK. In a report released Tuesday, the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) said DPRK…
South Korean and U.N. Command (UNC) investigators on Tuesday discovered a North Korean plastic anti-personnel mine near the site of a blast that seriously injured three soldiers in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) last week. The mine was found during a joint on-site investigation involving about 30 personnel, including…
The EU has slapped new sanctions on Russia over its alleged use of North Korea’s international children’s camp to indoctrinate Ukrainian children, following a similar move by the U.K. that resulted in a diplomatic row between London and Pyongyang. The EU’s new sanctions package primarily targeted Russian entities and…
North Korea is preparing to deploy around 10,000 soldiers to Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, claiming Moscow has helped Pyongyang set up attack drone manufacturing capabilities in exchange for the military aid. The DPRK’s current contingent of over 8,000 troops in Russia is set to be…
The Korean Peninsula has a persistent land mine problem that was recently highlighted by another explosion inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), injuring three South Korean soldiers during a route-clearing operation in the western sector of the boundary area. Seoul subsequently announced its initial assessment that the…
A senior North Korean diplomat on Monday criticized U.S. support for South Korea’s pursuit of nuclear-powered submarines and accused Washington of worsening tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Speaking at the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong said the U.S. had “approved and is…
South Korea’s military said Monday an explosion that seriously injured three soldiers in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) seven days earlier was “highly likely” to have been caused by a North Korean mine, citing preliminary evidence. During a briefing at the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Seoul at 8:30 p.m. KST, ROK…
Over 39% of South Koreans say they believe reunification with North Korea is impossible, the highest number since Seoul National University’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies began its annual poll in 2007. The results of the institute’s poll released Monday showed respondents who believe reunification is…
Vietnam unveiled a plaque paying tribute to North Korean soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War on Friday, ahead of the planned installation of the first memorial sculptures commemorating the DPRK’s support for Hanoi in the conflict. In a ceremony held at Hanoi’s Vietnam Military History Museum, North Korean Vice…
South Korea has demanded an official explanation and apology from Ukraine, expressing “strong regret” after Kyiv unilaterally disclosed the repatriation of two North Korean prisoners of war and then claimed the two countries had never agreed to keep the matter confidential. In a statement released Sunday, the Blue…
Russia’s new top envoy to North Korea presented his credentials to DPRK authorities on Monday, according to the diplomatic mission, marking the formal start of his posting following his arrival in the country on Saturday. Ambassador Andrei Podelyshev presented “copies of his credentials” to Kim Myong Jin, head of the…
North Korea failed to retain its FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup title after losing to Spain on penalties in the final on Sunday, narrowly missing out on its second successive trophy despite not conceding a single goal in the tournament. From start to finish, the final played in the Polish city of Lodz was a
Russia’s newly appointed ambassador to North Korea arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday, the diplomatic mission announced on social media, nearly a year after his predecessor died in the DPRK capital. Ambassador Andrei Podelyshev arrived with his wife aboard a direct Nordwind flight from Moscow, the Embassy and TASS…
The late 1960s and early 1970s were among the most intensely ideological periods in North Korean history: from the introduction of the Singular Thought System in 1967 to the point when terror was somewhat codified with the promulgation of the Criminal Code of 1974. Soviet diplomatic reports from this period, mostly…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday expressed concern over Volodymyr Zelensky’s public disclosure of the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) to South Korea, saying the Ukrainian president had violated an agreement to keep the move private. In a statement posted on X, Lee took aim at the…
“Settling in Seoul” 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 [email protected] and including their first name and city of residence. Idam, a pseudonym for a…
North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui on Thursday rejected a joint call by the United States, South Korea and Japan for Pyongyang to denuclearize and return to dialogue, saying the country remains “unchanged in its will to keep nuclear weapons forever.” In a statement released through the state-run Korean Central…
This month, Kenneth Bae joins North Korea Unpacked with Jacco Zwetsloot to discuss the 735 days he spent detained in North Korea, how repeated visits to the country shaped his understanding of ordinary North Koreans and what his imprisonment revealed about the state’s security system. He recounts how he traveled to…
North Korea successfully tested an upgraded version of the 240mm multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) on Tuesday, according to state media, claiming the weapons will be deployed to the South Korean border to “constantly expose the enemy to extreme uneasiness and fear.” The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on…
Ukraine has transferred two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea it captured during its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in early 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Wednesday. “Recently we sent two North Korean prisoners of war to the Republic of Korea,” he said in a speech about the…
North Korea won its first medals of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, securing two golds, a silver and two bronze in weightlifting, soft tennis and table tennis in the space of a few hours. Nine days after the DPRK’s first event in this year’s Asian Games, weightlifter Ri Song Gum ended the country’s
South Korea’s new defense minister Kang Shin-chul said North Korea should halt its efforts to fortify areas along the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), adding that Seoul will not be swayed by Pyongyang’s reaction as tensions persist along the inter-Korean border. Kang made the remarks to reporters at the Ministry of…
North Korean defector and George W. Bush Institute program manager Joseph Kim joins the podcast to discuss his recent NK News opinion column arguing that analysts and policymakers focus too heavily on Kim Jong Un while overlooking the role ordinary North Koreans could play in shaping the country’s future. He explains…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday outlined a three-part vision for “peaceful coexistence” with North Korea, calling for greater mutual respect, restored communication channels and broader cooperation as part of a push to end the Korean War and establish a lasting “peace regime (평화체제).” In a speech at…
North Korea has rejected a recent report by the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) on the country’s illicit overseas worker schemes, branding the multinational body a U.S.-backed “ghost group” and characterizing its efforts to scrutinize Pyongyang’s economic ties as unlawful interference. In a statement…
Ukrainian field medics say they saved one of Kyiv’s first North Korean prisoners of war shortly after he attempted to kill himself and left a large, self-inflicted wound to his jaw, according to a new documentary released by the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially announced the capture…
Russia’s Kursk region plans to boost tourism at sites where North Korean and Russian soldiers fought Ukrainian forces in the border area in 2024-2025, a move described by an expert as a bid to demonstrate Moscow’s permanent ties with Pyongyang. New war-themed attractions will kickstart a “patriotic tourism” boom in…
Several heavy trucks appeared to cross the long-stalled New Yalu River Bridge from China into North Korea on Sunday, marking what could be the first confirmed cargo traffic on the 12-year-old bridge as preparations for its opening gather pace. According to video footage shot by a resident of the Chinese border city of…
The top diplomats of the United States, South Korea and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea while calling on Pyongyang to return to dialogue after meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Monday. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, South Korean…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a test of a “new” missile on Sunday that appears to be a short-range system with a hypersonic warhead, according to state media and NK News analysis. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released a short and vague report on the missile test on Tuesday morning, quoting Kim
North Korea’s women’s soccer team battled to a 1-1 draw with South Korea at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, offering a glimpse of sporting rivalry and cautious camaraderie amid deepening tensions between the two Koreas. Both sides had already qualified for the knockout rounds after winning their opening two games…
Three South Korean military officers were injured Monday in an explosion south of the heavily fortified border with North Korea, according to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The military said in a statement that the officers “were injured by an unidentified explosion” while carrying out an operation south of the…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged that his country’s “ideological work” is not keeping pace with a changing environment and called for a more aggressive campaign to keep pace, according to a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report Saturday. Kim reportedly made the remarks as he kicked off the Third…
Japanese and South Korean authorities joined forces to rescue North Korean sailors who fell overboard from one of two vessels that sank off the coast of Japan while being towed by the DPRK-flagged Kum Ya freighter en route to Wonsan last week. The first of the two towed vessels sank around 104 kilometers…
North Korea launched suspected ballistic missiles toward the East Sea (Sea of Japan) twice on Sunday, according to South Korean and Japanese authorities. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) reported that it detected a ballistic missile launched from Wonsan on North Korea’s east coast around 3 p.m. KST. The…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected multiple major munitions factories from Wednesday to Friday, calling for expanded production capacity and modernization of weapons systems, including through artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, state media reported Saturday. The ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun…
South Korea is “continuing behind-the-scenes coordination to help create an opening” for dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea, which in turn could help pave the way for inter-Korean dialogue, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said during a press conference at the Blue House on Friday. Lee expressed hope for a…
A top North Korean military official defended Pyongyang’s nuclear policy as “irreversible” at a major security forum in China on Thursday and pledged closer military cooperation with Beijing. In a speech at the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, Vice Defense Minister Kim Kang Il said that the “reckless political and…
A North Korean spy’s extraordinary journey from colonial Korea to Jeju, Japan and Pyongyang becomes a vehicle for exploring the peninsula’s turbulent modern history in Juliette Morillot’s sweeping historical novel “Entre la terre et le sang,” or “Between Earth and Blood.” Mansu is a schoolgirl living in Kaesong on…
Kim Yo Jong warned that North Korea may take “more offensive” actions in response to U.S.-led multinational military exercises and pledged there will “never ever” be a change in Pyongyang’s efforts to strengthen its nuclear deterrent. In a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on…
President Donald Trump may propose a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in China, and it “would not be a surprise at all” for him to suggest holding it in Pyongyang, former U.S. Special Representative for the DPRK Stephen Biegun said Thursday. Speaking at…
North Korea warned Wednesday that increased U.S.-South Korea cooperation on countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD) could trigger a nuclear response from Pyongyang, accusing the allies of seeking to trigger a nuclear and chemical weapons conflict. In a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News…
For more than 40 years, North and South Korea couldn’t agree on a basic point: which government actually had the right to represent the Korean Peninsula. The battle extended beyond the Demilitarized Zone, playing out in the corridors of the U.N. and the capitals of newly independent states across the developing world…
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, rejected international calls for Pyongyang to denuclearize Thursday, saying the country’s status as a nuclear weapons state was “absolute” and could not be reversed. In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim dismissed…
This week, NK News Senior Analytical Correspondent Colin Zwirko joins the podcast to break down North Korea’s latest missile drill, which combined ballistic missiles, 600mm multiple rocket launchers, cruise missiles and attack drones in a coordinated strike on a single target. Colin explains what the exercise reveals…
North Korea has dispatched a defense ministry delegation to Beijing for China’s flagship annual security conference for the first time in seven years, in the latest sign of warming military ties between the two neighbors. The delegation, led by Vice Defense Minister Kim Kang Il, left Pyongyang on Tuesday to attend the…
North Korea has barred Western and Chinese visitors from attending an upcoming trade fair in Pyongyang over epidemiological concerns, reversing a recent, limited reopening to foreign participants, sources familiar with the matter told NK News. The 18th Pyongyang International Autumn Trade Fair scheduled late October…
A Seoul court on Wednesday ordered North Korea to pay the South Korean government roughly $32.6 million (44.6 billion won) in damages for destroying the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in Kaesong near the border in 2020, the first such case in which the South has directly sued the DPRK. Under the Seoul Central District…
A U.S. federal court has ordered North Korea and Iran to pay roughly $487 million in damages to 47 Americans and their families who were victims of terrorist attacks in the Middle East and Africa. The ruling, issued on Sept. 8 by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, held the two
North Korea’s women’s soccer team kicked off its campaign at the 20th Asian Games with a lopsided 10-0 victory against Bangladesh on Tuesday, signaling its intent to push ahead in the tournament and secure the gold medal that narrowly slipped away at the last games. The team’s opening game of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya…
Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Rob York, director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News. North Korea’s state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun has, on a handful of occasions in 2026…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed Russia-DPRK ties in a message to his counterpart Vladimir Putin ahead of Russia’s parliamentary election, pledging unwavering support for Moscow in the Ukraine conflict, which he described as a “sacred war.” Kim’s letter dated Monday responded to an earlier telegram in which…
Swiss testing and inspection giant Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS) denied North Korea’s claim that it maintains a representative office in Pyongyang, raising questions over whether the DPRK is exaggerating a historic relationship as it seeks to expand foreign trade. “SGS does not maintain a representative…
South Korea’s Unification Ministry on Monday said it plans to donate 166 types of medical equipment to one of North Korea’s newest major hospitals should it accept them, despite the regime’s ballistic missile launches two days earlier. “We are preparing to launch the relevant project immediately if the North responds…
Private car travel to North Korea will be off limits to Russian and other foreign citizens despite the new road link between the two countries, according to a Russian tourism association, with travelers having to rely on organized bus tours. The Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) outlined the restrictions…
North Korea launched three types of nuclear missiles and various attack drones in a “joint firepower attack drill” on Saturday, according to state media, seeking to demonstrate the ability to overwhelm targets from multiple directions through advanced command and control systems. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)…
Pyongyang fired off several ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the South Korean military reported on Saturday. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that North Korea fired the missiles from an area near Wonsan on its east coast, with the ROK military detecting the launch at 5:20 a.m. KST…
The number of new words added to North Korean dictionaries have risen sharply under leader Kim Jong Un’s rule as the language differences between the two Koreas continue to widen, according to a South Korean lawmaker Thursday. The expanded 2017 edition of the DPRK’s “Great Dictionary of the Korean Language” added…
South Korea is not considering deploying U.S. tactical nuclear weapons, developing its own nuclear weapons or pursuing nuclear sharing with Washington, rejecting calls from the opposition People Power Party (PPP) for similar measures to counter North Korea’s “provocations.” Vice Defense Minister Lee Doo-hee made the…
The United States and South Korea agreed Thursday to establish a system for sharing information on North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and discussed ways to strengthen their joint response to the regime’s increasingly sophisticated nuclear, chemical and biological threats. The agreement was reached at the…
The U.S. has slapped sanctions on an illicit online marketplace allegedly used by Chinese and North Korean cybercriminals in multibillion dollar fraud schemes targeting Americans through “scam centers” in Southeast Asia. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday imposed…
A South Korean court on Wednesday ordered a former ROK soldier to pay a fine of roughly $374 (500,000 won) after being found guilty of insulting a fellow conscript of North Korean descent who later jumped off a building. The Suwon District Court imposed the fine with a one-year suspended sentence against the defendant…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a speech marking the country’s founding anniversary on Wednesday thanked service members deployed to Russia amid deepening military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. According to a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report Thursday, Kim attended a national flag-hoisting and…
Russia has brushed off a U.N. nuclear watchdog’s report on North Korea’s nuclear program that included findings on a newly built uranium enrichment facility, citing insufficient evidence attributed to the agency’s lack of access to the country. A Russian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)…
Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Mintaro Oba, a former U.S. State Department official and expert on U.S.-Korea relations. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News. Will Donald Trump meet with Kim Jong Un again? Right now, the…
South Korea’s military pushed back against claims that its troops have increasingly overlooked North Korean soldiers crossing the inter-Korean border, denying that commanders have eased their response to incursions along the Military Demarcation Line (MDL). “Our military is taking firm operational measures against…
New Zealand deployed two naval vessels to monitor North Korea’s illicit maritime activities from mid-August to early September, Japan’s foreign ministry announced after the ships concluded their sanctions enforcement mission. The Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS Te Mana and sustainment vessel HMNZS Aotearoa…
Google Maps products have started obscuring satellite imagery of U.S. and South Korean military bases and the ROK side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the North Korean border, according to NK News analysis. The move fulfills a condition Google must meet in order to export South Korea’s detailed national base map…
The inclusion of six fabricated citations in an academic article by award-winning Korean studies scholar Aram Hur earlier this year did not constitute research misconduct, according to a statement from her university to NK News. A Tufts University investigation into the nonexistent citations determined the article…