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North Korea

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    North Korea stole $1.3bn through crypto hacks in 2024

    Pyongyang-affiliated groups account for two-thirds of digital asset thefts globally, according to blockchain research data

    Bitcoin cryptocurrency representation pictured on a keyboard in front of binary code
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    North Korean troops take heavy casualties fighting Ukrainian forces, says US

    Pyongyang’s soldiers have for the first time fought alongside the Russian military in Kursk

    North Korean troops training in Russia
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    South Korea Politics & Policy
    North Korea condemns ‘chaos’ over Yoon’s martial law bid in Seoul

    Pyongyang slams South Korean president as ‘fascist’ who has plunged his country into ‘pandemonium’

    A protester looks at placards as they are placed on a barricade at a rally calling for the impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, in Seoul
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    North Korea nuclear tensions
    Nato’s Rutte says Russia supporting North Korean nuclear programme

    Alliance chief claims Moscow’s help for Pyongyang could destabilise Korean Peninsula and threaten US

    Mark Rutte
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    North Korean casualties in Storm Shadow strike on Kursk, says Kyiv

    Ukraine alleges a general injured and several officers killed in last week’s attack on Russian command centre

    North Korean troops take part in a training exercise in March 2024
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine says it has attacked North Korean troops in Kursk

    First contact reported in Russian region captured by Kyiv in surprise offensive

    A picture purportedly showing North Korean soldiers being fitted with Russian uniforms
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    News in-depthSouth Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korea weighs arming Ukraine after North Korean deployment

    Seoul views Pyongyang’s troops in Russia and possible technology transfers as direct security risk

    A TV screen shows file images of North Korean soldiers during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine and US warn Kyiv’s troops could face North Korean forces ‘in days’

    New assessment finds as many as 8,000 soldiers have been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region

    The North Korean embassy building in Moscow
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    North Korea nuclear tensions
    North Korea conducts longest-ever ICBM test

    Launch comes after US and South Korean defence chiefs condemn Pyongyang’s troop deployment to Russia

    A man at a Seoul train station watches a broadcast of the missile test on Thursday
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    North Korean troops enter Russia’s war against Ukraine

    Deployment to Kursk region threatens to escalate conflict but analysts question Pyongyang forces’ readiness

    Montage of a drone, soldiers in formation during a ceremony and a map
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Nato says North Korean troops in Russia threaten European security

    Pyongyang’s involvement marks ‘dangerous expansion’ of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, says Mark Rutte

    Mark Rutte, standing at a podium with the NATO emblem, delivers a statement at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Behind him are multiple national flags including those of NATO member countries.
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    The west underestimates North Korea at its peril

    Kim Jong Un’s intervention in the Ukraine war reflects a dangerous turn in Pyongyang’s approach to the world

    Illustration of  a nuclear missile standing on the North Korean flag
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Putin signals North Korean troops are in Russia

    Ukraine says North Korean soldiers expected to be deployed with Russian army as soon as this weekend

    Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un are smiling as they walk together during their meeting
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    China uneasy with North Korean troops in Russia

    Deepening Moscow-Pyongyang ties could destabilise Korean peninsula and embolden US-led alliances in region

    Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin attend the plenary session of the Outreach/Brics Plus meeting in Kazan, Russia
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Putin bets on North Korean troops to retake Kursk from Ukraine

    ‘Storm Corps’ is first foreign army contingent deployed in Russia’s war

    A montage showing Vladimir Putin, two North Korean troops and missiles over a background of a map of Kursk
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    ‘Thousands’ of North Korean troops to fight in Russia

    Washington says deployment of soldiers is ‘a very, very serious issue’

    North Korean soldiers taking part in a mass rally in Pyongyang in September 2018
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    South Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korea asks Russia to stop apparent North Korean troop deployment

    Seoul calls in ambassador amid concerns about Pyongyang involvement in Ukraine conflict

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un shaking hands during their meeting at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur region on September 13, 2023,
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia to deploy North Korean soldiers in Ukraine, warns Zelenskyy

    Ukrainian president says Moscow is preparing to use 10,000 troops from Asian nation in ‘first step to a world war’

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy giving a speech in front of the Ukrainian flag at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    South Korea-North Korea tensions
    North Korea blows up roads to south as tensions mount

    Symbolic detonations are first of their kind and come amid dispute over drones

    People in Seoul Station watch a television broadcast showing news footage of explosions, with a prominent red news ticker displaying Korean text and a person in the foreground using a mobile phone
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    North Korea nuclear tensions
    North Korea releases first-ever photos of uranium enrichment plant

    Kim Jong Un calls to ‘exponentially’ increase nuclear weapons stockpile

    Kim Jong Un inspects uranium enrichment centrifuges at an undisclosed location in North Korea
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    South Korea-North Korea tensions
    North Korean soldier crosses demilitarised zone into South

    Second possible defection this month comes amid heightened tensions on peninsula

    A North Korean flag
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Taiwan
    Taiwan targets North Korean oil smuggling

    Taipei seeks to ‘close loopholes’ in terrorism financing law that undermined UN sanctions

    An employee rides a bicycle at the Kao Ming Container Terminal at the Port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    News in-depthSouth Korea Politics & Policy
    More South Koreans want Seoul to have its own nuclear weapons

    Stronger Putin-Kim ties and possible Trump re-election increases public support for independent deterrent

    People in Seoul watch a television broadcast about a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Pyongyang
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    South Korea-North Korea tensions
    North Korean balloons carrying rubbish briefly close South’s busiest airport

    Launches come amid high tensions on Korean Peninsula days after Vladimir Putin visit

    A balloon believed to have been sent by North Korea over a rice field in South Korea last month
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Global InsightJoe Leahy
    Why Xi is wary of Kim’s embrace of Putin

    North Korean leader’s deepening ties with Russian president could increase his sense of independence from Beijing

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat in a car
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