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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...
Farm security is national security: Trump administration takes bold action to elevate American agriculture in national security
Lassen County Times - California
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July 9, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins alongside U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the next pillar of her Make Agriculture Great Again...
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...
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...
Why Trump’s bombing of Iran will only bolster North Korea’s nuclear resolve
The Independent
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June 24, 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 Korea flag disrupts South Korean church’s live stream in ‘hacking incident’
The Straits Times
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June 20, 2025
The incident occurred early in the morning of June 18, when the live stream was abruptly filled with the North Korean flag.PHOTO: REUTERS SEOUL - One of South Korea’s largest megachurches said on June 20 its YouTube worship service was briefly...
N. Korea flag disrupts S. Korea church livestream in ‘hacking incident’
The Malaysian Star
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June 20, 2025
SEOUL: One of South Korea's largest megachurches said on June 20 its YouTube worship service was briefly hacked during a live broadcast to display the North Korean flag, with a government agency saying it was checking the details. The incident...
N. Korea investigates officer after student self-harm at event
Daily NK
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June 20, 2025
The North Korean military is investigating a case of self-harm by a student at a revolutionary school who attended a major event in Pyongyang, Daily NK has learned. “A female student at Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School who attended the national...
North Korea’s deadly COVID lie
Daily NK
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June 20, 2025
A damning new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies reveals the true cost of North Korea’s pandemic deception—a systematic cover-up that likely condemned thousands of its own citizens to preventable deaths. Based on...
North Korea flag disrupts South Korea church livestream in 'hacking incident'
Channel News Asia
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June 20, 2025
Another Protestant church in Seoul, the Naesoo-Dong Church, told AFP it also experienced a similar hacking incident shortly before its YouTube worship service early on Wednesday morning. An "inappropriate" video was displayed for about 50 seconds...
Women’s football squad leave for Asia Cup qualifiers
Gulf Daily News Online
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FOOTBALL – BAHRAIN’S women’s football national team have departed for Myanmar to take part in Group C of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2026 Qualifiers. Matches in their division are scheduled to kick off tomorrow and continue until Saturday next week....
North Korean flag interrupts church YouTube livestream broadcast
Donga Ilbo
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Onnuri Church, one of South Korea’s largest Protestant megachurches, faced a livestream disruption during Tuesday’s dawn service when a North Korean flag appeared on screen for about 20 seconds. The church suspects external hacking and is...
Ambiguous Signaling: Filtering through Race and Language
Anthropology News - Virginia
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July 1, 2025
Credit: Patty Lan On the hunt for mooncakes for the Mid Autumn Festival in Seoul’s Daelim One day while taking the train in Seoul, two young Chinese girls were chatting in Cantonese, much to my excitement. It had been so long since I heard my...
Zelenskyy calls Russia, Iran and North Korea 'coalition of murderers' during UK visit
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 23, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described Russia, Iran and North Korea as a "coalition of murderers" during a visit to the UK, in which he met with the British Prime Minister to discuss defence co-operation. Mr Zelenskyy was in London...
N. Korea sets new S. Korea policy, views military pact as key test
Daily NK
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June 19, 2025
North Korea has been quietly reshaping its South Korea policy since Lee Jae-myung took office, leaving open the possibility of easing tensions and pursuing limited cooperation. Pyongyang particularly views restoring the 2018 inter-Korean military...