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Pyongyang Song: N. Korea’s secure collaboration platform
Daily NK
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June 25, 2025
North Korea has developed a collaborative work platform called Pyongyang Song (meaning “Pyongyang Castle”) that it’s promoting among major organizations. The program enables virtual meetings and document sharing while incorporating security...
North Korea Unveils Key Tourist Project In Wonsan
StratNews Global
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June 26, 2025
Home Asia North Korea Unveils Key Tourist Project In Wonsan The tourist zone will open for domestic guests from July 1, KCNA said, without mentioning foreign tourists. North Korea has finished building a massive tourist zone along its east coast,...
Russia to Increase University Places for North Korean Students, Cultural Diplomacy Agency Says
The Moscow Times
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June 23, 2025
Russia plans to increase the number of university spaces reserved for students from North Korea, the head of state-funded cultural diplomacy agency Rossotrudnichestvo said. Moscow and Pyongyang have deepened political, military and cultural ties...
North Korea Completes Kalma Beach Resort Set For Opening Next Month
MENAFN
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June 25, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Seoul, June 26 (IANS) North Korea has completed the construction of a large-scale beach resort in the eastern coastal region of Kalma, with leader Kim Jong-un touting it as one of the country's greatest feats this year, state media...
Six Americans detained in South Korea for trying to send rice, Bibles to North Korea by sea
News Tribune - Missouri
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June 28, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said. The Americans were...
N. Korea completes Kalma beach resort; set for opening next month
Yonhap News Agency
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June 25, 2025
By Park Boram SEOUL, June 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has completed the construction of a large-scale beach resort in the eastern coastal region of Kalma, with leader Kim Jong-un touting it as one of the country's greatest feats this year, state...
North Korea opens landmark coastal Wonsan tourist zone
The Malaysian Star
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June 25, 2025
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has completed construction of a massive tourist zone on its east coast, state media reported on Thursday, a key project driven by leader Kim Jong Un for years to promote tourism. With "great satisfaction", Kim attended...
Six Americans detained for trying to send rice, Bibles to North Korea
The Gleaner
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June 28, 2025
SEOUL (AP): Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said. The Americans were apprehended on front-line...
North Korea and the Lasting Legacy of Kim Il Sung
The Diplomat
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June 25, 2025
The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Fyodor Tertitskiy, author of “Accidental...
South Korea Detains 6 Americans Sending Bibles into North Korea
International Christian Concern
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June 27, 2025
6/27/2025 South Korea (International Christian Concern) — South Korean authorities detained six Americans today after they attempted to send 1,600 plastic bottles containing miniature Bibles into North Korea by sea. According to the Gwanghwa...
6 Americans detained for sending Bibles to N Korea
News Today Net
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June 28, 2025
The Americans were apprehended on front-line Gwanghwa Island before throwing the bottles into the sea so they could float toward North Korean shores on the tides, two Gwanghwa police officers said. They said the Americans are being investigated on...
South Korea arrests six Americans trying to send Bibles to North Korea
Zambian Observer
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June 28, 2025
South Korean authorities have arrested six American nationals who were allegedly attempting to send plastic bottles packed with rice, Bibles, and U.S. currency across the maritime border into North Korea. The arrests took place in the early hours...
World’s most exclusive resort? What we know about North Korea’s lavish new seaside development
CNN
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June 27, 2025
Seoul CNN — Kim Jong Un personally cut the ribbon on a new resort hailed by state media as a “national treasure-level tourism city” — a lavish seaside development set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and...
Female superstars: How North Korean propaganda portrays women in sports
NK News
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June 26, 2025
North Korean female athletes have been on a dominant run in international competition, capturing seven medals at the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships earlier this year and winning both the U-20 and U-17 Women’s World Cups in 2024. But even as...
Six Americans detained trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea
1News
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Six Americans were detained in South Korea for trying to send 1600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 American bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said. The Americans were apprehended on front-line Gwanghwa...
N. Korean vendors cash in on Children’s Day celebrations
Daily NK
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June 25, 2025
North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported on June 2 that joyous celebrations were held nationwide to mark International Children’s Day the day before. Food vendors in North Korea’s markets were all smiles as kindergartens and elementary...
Why South Korean young men and women are more politically divided than ever
Los Angeles Times
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July 3, 2025
SEOUL — It’s a worldwide shift that has taken political scientists and sociologists by surprise: the growing ideological divide between young men and women. In the recent U.S. presidential election, President Trump won 56% of the vote among men...
Americans held over N. Korea deliveries
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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June 28, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Americans held over N. Korea deliveries SEOUL, South Korea -- Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled...
Trump administration moves decisively to block China from 'weaponizing' American farmland
Fox News
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July 8, 2025
Fox News correspondent David Spunt reports on the latest espionage attempts by Iran and China on 'Special Report.' NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled its National Farm Security Action...
South Korea Detains Americans Trying to Send Food, Bibles to North Korea
Breitbart
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June 27, 2025
South Korean police detained six Americans on Friday caught with over 1,000 bottles carrying rice, Bibles, and American money that they reportedly intended to send across the sea to North Korea. The incident is the largest scale of its kind in...