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Seoul warns thousands of North Koreans to arrive in Russia as early as July
NK News
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June 27, 2025
North Korea will dispatch military engineers and construction workers to Russia around July or August, Seoul’s spy agency assessed, just as Moscow may be eyeing a new offensive against Kyiv. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) made...
‘No justice in North Korea’: Defectors at UN hearing testify about executions, mounting abuses by regime
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 26, 2025
Published: 27 Jun. 2025, 07:00 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Defector Maeng Hyo-shim speaks about her experience living and escaping North Korea during a public hearing hosted by the United Nations Human Rights Office in Seoul on...
The World and Everything in It: July 9, 2025
World - North Carolina
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July 9, 2025
Editor's note: The following text is a transcript of a podcast story. To listen to the story, click on the arrow beneath the headline above. LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning! The countdown to America’s 250th birthday begins, and with it...
(LEAD) 6 Americans nabbed for trying to send plastic bottles with rice, dollar bills to N. Korea
Yonhap News Agency
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June 27, 2025
(ATTN: UPDATES with police's plan to investigate them without detention in paras 5-7) By Chae Yun-hwan INCHEON, June 27 (Yonhap) -- Police on Friday apprehended six American citizens who attempted to release plastic bottles containing rice, one...
6 Americans detained in South Korea for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea
Associated Press
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June 27, 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 apprehended...
Six under investigation for attempting to send bottles of dollar bills and rice to North Korea
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 27, 2025
Published: 27 Jun. 2025, 09:46 Updated: 27 Jun. 2025, 12:37 A North Korean defector group puts rice and face masks into plastic bottles to send to the North on June 18, 2020. The image is not related to the story. [YONHAP] Six people were detained...
Yomiuri: China Accepting Thousands of N. Korean Workers
KBS World
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June 27, 2025
Photo : YONHAP News China has reportedly accepted thousands of North Korean workers since the beginning of this year. Citing sources familiar with North Korea-China relations, Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun daily said Friday that around three-thousand...
BRICS without the Big Boys becomes a Buzzkill
The Gateway Pundit
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July 9, 2025
Commentary There’s nothing like being an event planner when the big invites that are the “Flagship Speakers” of the event are no shows. Not just no shows, it is known well in advance they will not be there at all. So much lipstick will have to be...
Russia’s stolen children: How the Kremlin is using abducted Ukrainian minors as weapons of war
LBC
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3 July 2025, 07:38 Broken childhoods: The Ukrainian families torn apart by Russia’s forced adoptions. Picture: Getty Among the gravest atrocities of the Russian Federation in its war of aggression in Ukraine is the systematic weaponisation of...
Six Americans caught trying to float rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea
The Independent
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June 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
North Korean Missile Debris Found in Kyiv After Deadly Russian Strike
Kyiv Post
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June 23, 2025
Emergency workers sifting through the debris of a deadly overnight missile and drone attack confirmed that fragments of a North Korean missile were recovered from the wreckage in Kyiv on Monday. “It was a Korean missile, they just found some...
Would you go on holiday to North Korea? Kim Jong Un just revealed a big tourist resort
The Independent (U.S.)
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June 26, 2025
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has officially opened a big resort in a bid to increase tourism in the country, according to state media. KCNA (Korean Central News Agency) said Kim attended an opening ceremony for the Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist...
Has the Trump-Putin bromance finally run its course?
The Guardian
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July 9, 2025
“I’m not happy with Putin. I can tell you that much right now,” Trump said, expressing his frustration with the Russian leader over the war in Ukraine. “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin … He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out...
Kim Jong-un unveils missile site turned beach resort in North Korea, tourists may be next
The Indian Express
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June 26, 2025
North Korea has officially opened the long-delayed Wonsan Kalma coastal resort, a project leader Kim Jong Un hopes will boost domestic tourism and eventually attract international visitors, according to state media KCNA. The resort, six years...
Un, sea and sand! North Korean dictator launches nation's new beach resorts alongside daughter and rarely-seen wife in bizarre footage aimed to draw in tourists
Daily Mail
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June 26, 2025
Kim Jong Un has unveiled North Korea's glitzy new beach resort, touring the development with his wife and daughter, in what is a rare appearance for the dictator's spouse. The hermit kingdom completed construction on the massive tourist resort,...
South Korea grants first NGOs green light to make contact with North Koreans
Hankyoreh
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June 27, 2025
Chung Dong-young, the figure tapped to be minister of unification, answers questions from the press as he arrives at the Inter-Korean Relations Management Bureau, where he’s set up an office to prepare for his confirmation hearing, on June 24,...
Gucci handbags and water slides: North Korea’s first lady makes rare appearance
The Times
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It is summertime in North Korea and the dictator, Kim Jong-un, a man who usually relishes inspecting ballistic missiles and battleships, visited a new seaside resort. But when pictures of the walkabout were released this week it was not the sight...
A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea. Now It’s Gone.
Columbia Journalism Review
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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The mission of Voice of America, to “tell America’s story to the world,” is hard to fulfill when you’re broadcasting into the void of North Korea. For decades, VOA’s Korean service struggled to...
North Korea 'Blur Out' PSG Player Competing at Club World Cup
GiveMeSport
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June 23, 2025
Pyongyang’s Korean Central Television bizarrely blurred the moment one of Paris Saint-Germain's players scored during its delayed broadcast of the revamped Club World Cup. The game between Champions League holders and Spanish side Atletico Madrid...
North Korea overtakes Iran as Russia’s partner of choice
Asia Times
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June 23, 2025
North Korea is no longer just supplying Russia with manpower and missiles. It is embedding itself deep within Russia’s war economy, sending thousands of workers to the heart of its drone industry and reshaping the balance of power in Eurasia. This...