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asia North Korea opens landmark coastal Wonsan tourist zone
Asiaone
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June 26, 2025
SEOUL — North Korea has completed construction of a massive tourist zone on its east coast, state media reported on Thursday (June 26), a key project driven by leader Kim Jong Un for years to promote tourism. With "great satisfaction", Kim...
North Korea Overtakes Iran As Russia's Partner Of Choice
MENAFN
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June 23, 2025
Latest stories Siege warfare keeping Myanmar military in the fight Seoul's Lee and Tokyo's Ishiba off to a surprisingly warm start The US attack on Iran and the collapse of negotiations While Russia and Iran have a long history of distrust and...
Kim Jong-un hails new North Korean beach resort as one of country’s ‘greatest feats’ this year
The Guardian
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June 26, 2025
Kim Jong-un is more accustomed to overseeing ballistic missile launches and political purges, but this week the North Korean leader opted for a change of pace with a family visit to a new beach resort – the vanguard in a tourism drive that may one...
FORCES: North Korean Soldiers Service Extended
Strategy Page
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June 26, 2025: North Korea has extended the service obligation for new recruits from eight to ten years for men and from five to seven years for women. This change is imperative because North Korea is running out of military age men. Women, on the...
Why Ukraine’s newest weapons offer a glimpse of the future of war
The Times
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Oleksiy has peered into the future of war. “For those unlucky bastards who serve in the trenches, life is already hell,” said the mustachioed soldier who goes by the call sign ‘Mexican’. “But it’s about to get a lot worse.” The former fintech...
Heart emoji banned, K-pop punished: Defectors share details on North Korea’s brutal controls
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 26, 2025
Published: 26 Jun. 2025, 09:59 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI A North Korean defector speaks during an event hosted by the Seoul office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Ohchr) held at the Global Center in...
Dennis Rodman transcended basketball by partying hard, wrestling Hulk Hogan and marrying to Carmen Electra
talkSPORT
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July 9, 2025
Former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman is an enigma in every sense of the word. On the court, he was renowned as one of the best re-bounders in NBA history who won five championships during his time with Chicago and the Detroit Pistons. 7 Rodman...
Kim Jong Un opens massive Wonsan beach resort as he bets on North Korea tourism boom
The Independent
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June 26, 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...
World Reuters North Korea opens landmark coastal Wonsan tourist zone
Yahoo News
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By Ju-min Park 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...
Sanders joined Trump officials in D.C. to tout anti-China agriculture security plan
Arkansas Times
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July 9, 2025
The cover of a new national agriculture security plan features Farmer in Chief Donald Trump. Credit: United States Department of Agriculture On Tuesday, Gov. Sarah Sanders joined Trump administration officials to announce a new plan to protect...
North Korea fired multiple rounds with rocket launches in Yellow Sea
Mint
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June 22, 2025
A day after South Korea conducted joint air drills with the US and Japan, North Korea fired over 10 rounds of rockets into the Yellow Sea on Thursday morning from Sunan near Pyongyang in a north-westerly direction, according to South Korea's...
The constant battle: How Booking.com’s security chief fights travel scams at scale
WIT
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July 9, 2025
The constant battle: How Booking.com’s security chief fights travel scams at scale For cybercriminals, the travel industry has become a lucrative new target and it’s not hard to see why. Big money, emotional stakes, digital self-service, and a...
Taiwan begins largest military exercises ever
Asia News
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July 9, 2025
Today's news: South Korea repatriates six North Koreans: The Taliban rejects International Criminal Court warrant for its leaders; Indian media report an Indian nurse sentenced to death in Yemen could be executed in the coming days; Tajikistan...
The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Wall Street Journal win awards in National Press Club journalism contest
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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WASHINGTON, July 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- National Press Club President Mike Balsamo today announced the 2025 winners of the prestigious National Press Club Journalism Awards. This year's honorees include news outlets from across the country,...
Defectors testify to executions by firing squad of N. Koreans for watching S. Korean TV dramas
The Korea Times
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June 25, 2025
Watching or distributing South Korean TV dramas or K-pop songs is being punished by execution by firing squad in North Korea, with one young man shot to death in public on such charges, North Korean defectors testified Wednesday. The testimonies...
S. Korea approves civic groups' bid for N. Korean contact for humanitarian aid exchanges
Yonhap News Agency
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June 25, 2025
SEOUL, June 25 (Yonhap) -- The government has granted permission for several civic groups to contact North Korea for humanitarian purposes in an effort to resume civil-level inter-Korean exchanges that had effectively been suspended during the...
Unification ministry greenlights NGO outreach to North Korea
The Korea Times
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June 25, 2025
The Ministry of Unification recently approved a series of requests from civic groups to establish contact with North Korea, signaling the Lee Jae Myung administration’s push to revive dialogue with Pyongyang. According to the ministry Wednesday,...
North Korea blurs Lee Kang-in out of its Club World Cup broadcast
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 21, 2025
Published: 21 Jun. 2025, 15:57 North Korea's state-run Korean Central Television blurred South Korean footballer Lee Kang-in in its broadcast on June 20. [KOREA CENTRAL TV] Pyongyang’s Korean Central Television (KCTV) on Friday blurred a moment...
Explained: Why North Korea Blurred Lee Kang-in’s Goal During Club World Cup Broadcast
Asianet Newsable
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June 24, 2025
North Korea’s state TV edited out a South Korean footballer’s goal during the Club World Cup broadcast. Here’s what was shown, and what was hidden from viewers in Pyongyang and why. North Korea’s state-run Korean Central Television (KCTV) once...
North Korea soon opening borders to 'select' Chinese tourists, travel agency says
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 21, 2025
Published: 21 Jun. 2025, 09:44 An undated image of a North Korean flight attendant pointing to a North Korean plane, posted on Koryo Tours' website [SCREEN CAPTURE] North Korea may be preparing to reopen its borders to foreign tourists, according...