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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...
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...
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....
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...
N. Korean Hackers Use PylangGhost Malware in Fake Crypto Job Scam
Hackread
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June 19, 2025
A new series of cyber attacks is targeting professionals in the crypto and blockchain industries using fake recruitment scams, according to new research by Cisco Talos. The attackers, linked to a North Korea-aligned group known as Famous Chollima,...
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...
Russia, N-Korea sign deal to deepen cooperation in education
MENAFN
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June 15, 2025
(MENAFN) Russia and North Korea have reached an agreement aimed at enhancing collaboration in the field of education, which includes establishing language centers in both nations. The agreement was finalized by Russian Education Minister Sergey...
North Korea-Russia People-to-People Exchanges as a Tool for Sustained Dialogue
38 North
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June 18, 2025
(Source: Korean Central News Agency) At the meeting with Kim Jong Un on June 17, Sergei Shoigu, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, noted that the partnership between Russia and North Korea “is being carried out not just on paper, but...
Scoop: politicians like ice cream
Times of Malta
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July 10, 2025
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed Presidential Proclamation 5219, which designated July that year as National Ice Cream Month and July 15 as National Ice Cream Day. The proclamation was spurred by two bipartisan resolutions, one originating...
Chinese MP8 players popular among N. Korean youth
Daily NK
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June 23, 2025
Chinese-made MP8 media players are gaining popularity among North Korean youth, entering the country in small quantities through border areas despite restrictions. According to a Daily NK source in North Korea recently, the MP8 has become popular...
Waiting for Peace: South Korea marks 75 years since North Korea began a war that has never ended
The Milwaukee Independent
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June 23, 2025
The war, which caused massive casualties and entrenched a division that had begun years earlier, never formally ended. The legacy of that unresolved conflict continues to shape policies, politics, and perceptions across the Korean Peninsula and...
N. Korea touts 'absolute solidity' of alliance with Russia on 1st anniv. of key treaty
Yonhap News Agency
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June 19, 2025
SEOUL, June 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday underscored the "absolute solidity" of its alliance with Russia and reaffirmed bilateral cooperation as it marked the first anniversary of the signing of a mutual defense treaty with Moscow. The...
Blow up Washington, D.C.'s brutalist buildings, and the sooner, the better
Sidney Sun Telegraph - Nebraska
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July 9, 2025
There’s a reason God created dynamite. The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation’s capital is finally beginning to move on from...
North Korea’s hackers could have laundered as much as $1.5 billion in stolen crypto
CryptoSlate
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June 18, 2025
North Korea’s hackers has reportedly stolen nearly $2 billion from centralized crypto exchanges over the past year. Blockchain security researcher Tay Monahan attributes a significant portion of those funds, around $1.8 billion, to a series of...
N. Korea forces citizens to watch Kim propaganda on repeat
Daily NK
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June 18, 2025
North Korea is forcing citizens to repeatedly watch a propaganda video called “The Policy of the Workers’ Party Is Good” that catalogues Kim Jong Un’s supposed achievements. “Party organizations are scrambling to prepare for the midyear business...
North Korea’s international film festival to return in fall after six-year break
NK News
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June 18, 2025
North Korea’s leading international film festival is set to return after a six-year absence this year, highlighting the country’s apparent willingness to give its citizens a rare chance to engage with outside cultural content after years of...
North Korean vice foreign minister reaffirms 'consistent' stance on deepening ties with China
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 18, 2025
Published: 18 Jun. 2025, 16:29 Updated: 18 Jun. 2025, 17:37 This photo of North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son-gyong, left, and Chinese Ambassador to North Korea Wang Yajun, right, during an embassy event in Pyongyang on June 17, is...