カテゴリー: North Korea
The Russian president’s visit to Pyongyang signals a deepening relationship between two isolated countriesRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesChina accounts for more than 90% of North Korea’s trade and has been its most dependable aid donor and dip…
Soldiers were laying mines along border at time of blasts, says South, as it reveals separate incident in which it fired warning shots at troops from NorthNorth Korea’s military has suffered “multiple casualties” after landmines exploded in the heavily…
Pyongyang’s trade in wigs and false eyelashes is booming, offering a vital revenue stream to help it pursue its nuclear ambitionsThey almost certainly don’t know it, but western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North…
Russian leader will have talks with Kim Jong-un with shared aim of expanding security and economic cooperationVladimir Putin has praised North Korea for supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine, as he travels to Pyongyang to seek continued military support f…
Civilian aircraft have been cleared from Pyongyang’s airport and there are signs of preparations for a possible parade in Kim Il-sung SquareThe US and South Korea have warned Vladimir Putin against forging closer military ties with North Korea, as spec…
Incident comes at time of heightened tensions between neighbours, as tit-for-tat actions increase after North Korea sent rubbish-filled balloons into the SouthSouth Korea’s military has said it fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly cr…
Seoul says it will install loudspeakers on the border with North Korea after detecting 330 more balloons in its territorySouth Korea says it will restart loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts into the North, after Pyongyang sent hundreds more rubbish-fille…
Balloons filled with US dollars, K-pop and leaflets critical of Kim Jong-un have been sent over the border by group of a North Korean defectorsThe “balloon wars” between the two Koreas have intensified after activists in the South said they had sent ba…
About 20-50 balloons an hour incoming, warns Seoul’s military, urging public to report but don’t touchNorth Korea has sent about 600 more rubbish-filled balloons containing everything from cigarette butts to plastic across the border, Seoul’s military …
Suspected North Korean balloons carrying faeces are latest example of dung or human waste being used in conflictSouth Koreans faced a different type of retaliation this week when more than 150 white balloons were allegedly floated across the border by …
South Korea has warned residents to be alert after media reports that more than 90 balloons carrying various objects have been detectedSouth Korea has warned residents living near the border with North Korea to be on alert, after media reports that bal…
Cause of accident was ‘operational reliability of engine’, says Pyongyang, after two failed attempts last yearNorth Korea’s latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit ended in a mid-air explosion, Pyongyang said late Monday, hours after its annou…
Song about North Korean leader titled Friendly Father includes lines like ‘let’s brag about Kim Jong-un’South Korea’s media regulator has banned access to a North Korean propaganda music video that it said idolised and glorified leader Kim Jong-un as a…
Kim Ki-nam was known as ‘the North Korean Goebbels’ in the South due to his role as head of propaganda departmentKim Ki-nam, the propaganda chief who served all three generations of North Korean leaders and cemented their political legitimacy, has died…
Report to United Nations security council says remnants of Hwasong-11 violate arms export embargo on Russian ally The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on 2 January was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic mi…