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North Korean avoids land mines to cross DMZ into South Korea as Seoul softens stance on Pyongyang
A North Korean man crossed the DMZ on foot before midnight Thursday, asking South Korean troops for help in a rare defection ...
Image made with AI misleads about purported N. Korean contamination of S. Korean rivers
After an online media outlet reported that Pyongyang was secretly discharging uranium wastewater into rivers flowing into ...
Foreign Affairs4h
North Korea’s Second Chance?
Thus far, however, he has said comparatively little about the growing strength of the Kim regime in North Korea, leading some ...
North Korea’s Growing Role In Ukraine War Shows How Weak Russia Is
It was reported last week that North Korea plans to triple the number of troops fighting with Russia along the front lines in ...
Korea JoongAng Daily on MSN1d
Boats and bulgogi: North aims to draw tourists with river dining experience in Pyongyang
A new dining experience on the Taedong River in Pyongyang is drawing attention — a package that allows people to enjoy a meal ...
Families of abductees halt anti-North Korea leaflet campaign
A South Korean civic group representing families of abductees held in North Korea officially announced Tuesday that it would ...
South Korea's balloon crackdown hits anti-North Korea activists
The equipment activist Lee Min-bok uses to send balloons laden with anti-Kim Jong Un leaflets across the border from South ...
North Korean spy drama in China may signal Beijing’s unease over growing Pyongyang-Moscow ties
China has traditionally viewed North Korea as a security buffer and an ideologically aligned neighbor it can dominate.
The National Interest on MSN4d
Kim Jong-un Will Turn His Back on Lee Jae-myung
President Lee faces a North Korea that has abandoned reunification, built a massive nuclear arsenal, and aligned with Russia, ...
North Korea to send as many as 30,000 troops to bolster Russia’s forces, Ukrainian officials say
North Korea is set to treble the number of its troops fighting for Russia along the front lines with Ukraine, sending an ...
The US Army once ruled Pyongyang and 5 other things you might not know about the Korean War
On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...
Wall Street Journal7y
We’re Holding Pyongyang to Account - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
In the past few months, multiple illegal North Korean ballistic-missile and ICBM tests—coupled with the most recent bellicose language from Pyongyang about striking the U.S., Guam, our allies ...