Customers at this Starbucks can sip coffee and observe a quiet North Korean village

Associated Press 11/30/2024

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a new Starbucks at a South Korean border observatory. Customers have to pass a military checkpoint before…

Ukraine to allies: Act before North Korean troops reach the front

Associated Press 11/03/2024

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield, and the country’s army chief warned that his troops are facing…

North Korea: We will stand by Russia until ‘victory’ in Ukraine

Agence France Presse 11/02/2024

MOSCOW, Russia — North Korea will stand by Russia until its victory in Ukraine, Pyongyang’s foreign minister said in Moscow Friday, as the United States warned thousands of North Korean troops could be sent to combat in…

North Korea boasts of its new long-range missile targeting the US

Associated Press 11/01/2024

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday bragged of its recently tested new intercontinental ballistic missile, calling it “the world’s strongest,” a claim viewed by outside experts as propaganda though the test showed an advancement…

US: 8,000 North Korean troops at Ukraine’s border ready for combat

Associated Press 11/01/2024

WASHINGTON — Some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia near Ukraine’s border and are preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days, the Biden administration said Thursday. The new figure…

North Korea sent 10,000 troops to train in Russia, US says

Agence France Presse 10/29/2024

WASHINGTON, United States — North Korea has sent some 10,000 troops to train in Russia, Washington said Monday tripling its estimate and prompting NATO as well as EU warnings of a dangerous expansion of the Ukraine war.…

Ukraine: North Korean troops arrived in Russian ‘combat zone’

Agence France Presse 10/25/2024

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine said Thursday that North Korean troops have arrived in the “combat zone” in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Moscow has struggled to push back Ukrainian forces for months. North Korea — with whom…

South Korea warns Russia: It can also send arms to Ukraine

Associated Press 10/23/2024

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea warned Tuesday it could consider supplying weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea allegedly dispatching troops to Russia, as both North Korea and Russia denied the movements. The South Korean…

Ukraine video allegedly shows North Korean troops in Russia

Associated Press 10/20/2024

KYIV, Ukraine — A video purporting to show dozens of North Korean recruits lining up to collect Russian military fatigues has been released by Ukrainian officials, who say it shows the introduction of troops sent by Pyongyang…

N. Korea deploys elite troops to Russia – Seoul spy agency

Agence France Presse 10/18/2024

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has decided to send a “large-scale” troop deployment to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine, with 1,500 special forces already in Russia’s Far East and undergoing training, Seoul’s spy agency said Friday.…

North Korea says its revised constitution defines South Korea as ‘hostile state’ for first time

10/17/2024

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea confirmed Thursday that its recently revised constitution defines South Korea as “a hostile state” for the first time, two days after it blew up front-line road and rail links that…

North Korea blows up roads, rails to South

Agence France Presse 10/16/2024

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea blew up sections of the deeply symbolic roads and railways connecting it to the South on Tuesday, Seoul’s military said, adding it had conducted a “counter-fire” operation in response. Pyongyang’s military…

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