Death penalty for saying ‘oppa’ possible in N. Korea – Seoul

The Korean Herald/Asia News Network 06/02/2025

PYONGYANG – North Korea has strengthened its law to control foreign cultural influences by increasing the severity of criminal punishments against the spread of “anti-socialist culture”, going so far as to impose the death penalty, South Korea’s…

North Korea says it tested new missiles as it threatens strong steps against US-South Korea drills

Associated Press 03/21/2025

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday it test-launched new anti-aircraft missiles, as its military threatened unspecified grave steps against the U.S. and South Korea over their joint military drills that it views as an…

Seoul says North Korea is destroying facility that hosted reunions of war-separated families

Associated Press 02/13/2025

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is demolishing a South Korea-built property that had been used to host reunions of families separated during the 1950-53 Korean War, the South’s government said Thursday, as it continues to…

N. Korea test-fires sea-to-surface strategic cruise missile: KCNA

Agence France Presse 01/26/2025

North Korea has test-fired sea-to-surface strategic guided cruise missiles, state news agency KCNA reported Sunday, adding that the weapons “precisely” hit their targets. “The war deterrence means of the armed forces of the DPRK are being perfected…

North Korean troops in the Ukraine war: What we know

Agence France Presse 01/14/2025

KYIV, Ukraine — Months after Kyiv and Seoul began sounding the alarm over North Korea’s growing role in the Ukraine war, Kyiv now says Pyongyang’s troops are being killed and captured in battles with Ukrainian forces. AFP…

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…

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