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North Korean factory foods pile up unsold
Daily NK
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July 8, 2025
North Korea boasts that its factory output is improving people’s lives, but many factory-made food products sit unsold well past their expiration dates. “The products made at factories nowadays may have flashy logos and labels, but they often...
US Sanction Key Threat Actors Linked With North Korea’s Remote IT Worker Scheme
Cyber Security News
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July 10, 2025
The U.S. Treasury’s July 8 action against Song Kum Hyok and four Russia-based entities pulled back the curtain on a sophisticated malware-enabled revenue pipeline that has quietly bankrolled Pyongyang’s weapons programs for years. Investigators...
North Korea to welcome foreign businesspersons to fall trade fair: tour agency
NK News
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July 7, 2025
North Korea is set to welcome foreign businesspersons to its biggest international trade fair this fall, according to an event partner, despite having barred external participants from the previous spring edition at the eleventh hour earlier this...
North Korea makes tourism push as it opens Wonsan resort zone to Russian visitors
Korea JoungAng Daily
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July 7, 2025
Published: 07 Jul. 2025, 16:10 A view of a beach in the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area is seen in this photo released by North Korea's state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun on July 4. [NEWS1] North Korea is resuming efforts to revitalize its...
North Korea bars Western influencers from trade fair tour, says China-based operator
Malay Mail
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July 7, 2025
BEIJING, July 7 — North Korea has barred Western influencers from joining a delegation of tourists to an international trade fair in October, a China-based tour operator told AFP today. Diplomatically isolated North Korea has welcomed sporadic...
North Korea bars Western influencers from trade fair tour
Bangladesh Sangsbad Sangstha
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North Korea bars Western influencers from trade fair tour BEIJING, July 7, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - North Korea has barred Western influencers from joining a delegation of tourists to an international trade fair in October, a China-based tour operator...
North Korea: More than a million Covid cases feared
NewsDay Zimbabwe
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More than a million people have now been sickened by what Pyongyang is calling a "fever", state media said. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has lambasted health officials and ordered the army to help distribute medicine, as a wave of Covid cases...
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader
The Register
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The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang. According to the feds, Song is...
US Treasury sanctions Song Kum Hyok for facilitating North Korean IT worker schemes
Cryptopolitan
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July 9, 2025
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned North Korean cyber actor Song Kum Hyok. Song enabled strategies for IT workers to obtain jobs at firms by utilizing fictitious identities. Furthermore, OFAC sanctioned one person and...
US sanctions North Korean member of Kim Jong Un's spy agency
AOL
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The Treasury Department has levied sanctions against a North Korean cyber operative and notorious member of Kim Jong Un's military intelligence agency, formally known as the "Reconnaissance General Bureau." The U.S. has accused Song Kum Hyok of...
U.S. sanctions North Korean hacker for crimes benefitting Kim Jong Un's arms programs
United Press International (UPI)
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July 8 (UPI) -- The federal government has sanctioned alleged North Korean hacker Song Kum Hyok for illegal activities related to his participation in the Andariel hacking group. Song has participated in malicious cyber activities, including an...
N. Korean held in South after fleeing
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 5, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. N. Korean held in South after fleeing SEOUL, South Korea -- An unidentified North Korean man crossed the heavily fortified land border separating the two Koreas...
North Korea: Report to the UN Committee on the rights of persons with disabilities
International Federation for Human Rights
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July 4, 2025
On 4 July 2025, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its partner organisation Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) submitted a joint report to the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of Persons with...
North Korea holds dog meat cooking contest, touts it as summer health food
Korea JoungAng Daily
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July 4, 2025
Published: 04 Jul. 2025, 14:22 This image, captured from Korean Central Television on July 4, shows a ″sweet meat″ cooking competition held in Pyongyang. [YONHAP] North Korea hosted a dog meat cooking contest in Pyongyang to elevate culinary...
North Korea’s Cosmetic Surgery Law Revealed, Allowing Aesthetic Procedures but With Strict Limits
The Korea Bizwire
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July 4, 2025
In 2023, North Korea’s People’s Health website highlighted Dr. Park Geum-seon and other physicians at the Cosmetic Surgery Department of the Ministry of Public Health’s Dental General Hospital, who specialize in reconstructive procedures for...
N. Korea holds dog meat cooking contest, touts it as summer health food
Yonhap News Agency
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July 4, 2025
SEOUL, July 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea hosted a dog meat cooking contest in Pyongyang to elevate culinary standards for the red meat, state media has reported, touting it as a traditional source of energy for the summer season. The "sweet meat"...
China plans major aid initiative as N. Korea relations warm
Daily NK
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July 7, 2025
China appears to be moving toward providing comprehensive “strategic support” to North Korea as the two countries’ relationship shows signs of warming. According to a Daily NK source in Pyongyang recently, the Chinese embassy in North Korea has...
N. Korea targets farm corruption as legal violations surge
Daily NK
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July 3, 2025
The justice department of Ryanggang province’s people committee has launched intensive inspections of farms throughout the province. While officials claim their goal is to root out corruption, many remain skeptical about whether these efforts can...
North Korea’s Plastic Surgery Law: A Socialist Beauty
38 North
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July 2, 2025
(Source: Korean Central News Agency) North Korea quietly passed a law in 2016 that regulates where and under what conditions plastic surgery can be attempted, and puts limits on some elective cosmetic procedures. The law was included in a database...
North Korea ‘offers 30,000 MORE troops’ for Putin’s meatgrinder war after tyrant Kim Jong-un wept over soldiers’ coffins
The Sun
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July 2, 2025
NORTH Korea is reportedly planning to send 30,000 more troops to fight alongside the Russians against Ukraine. It comes just a day after tyrant Kim Jong-un wept over the coffins of his soldiers whom he sent to die in Vladimir Putin's meatgrinder...