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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...
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...
North Korea's 'concentration camp' revealed as new satellite images show grim reality
Daily Star
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July 2, 2025
A rare glimpse inside the closed-off walls of North Korea has been given – and it shows one of the country's most notorious hell zones. Located inside the mountainous part of Kim Jong-un's isolated land is the Jongori Detention Camp, near Hoeryong...
North Korean operative reveals the inner workings of the IT scam infiltrating the Fortune 500—‘They had no idea that we were from North Korea’
Fortune
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For more than a decade, Kim Ji-min served as an IT worker inside a vast global scheme devised by North Korea’s authoritarian leadership to evade crushing financial sanctions. Kim has since defected to South Korea. Now, he is sharing his experience...
N. Koreans grow tired of potato-heavy diet
Daily NK
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July 2, 2025
While the summer harvest brings relief from wondering where the next meal will come from, many North Koreans have grown tired of eating mostly potatoes. A source in South Pyongan province told Daily NK recently that wheat and barley harvests are...
Top sectors to watch in 2025 amid global uncertainty: Expert insights for Indian investors
The Economic Times
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July 22, 2025
"On the other hand, emerging markets are seeing deflationary trends. The US has gained full access to manufacturing markets like Indonesia and Vietnam, which are now being flooded with cost-effective US goods. That, combined with stronger...
From market trader to CEO - how Co-op boss turned £9m loss-making retailer around
Norwich Evening News
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Fast forward to today and the chief exec has turned the business around, guiding it to a £1m return to profit this year. “We had a portfolio in the food and trading space that hadn’t been invested in or looked after,” Mr Rigby said, sitting in the...
N. Korean street vendors vash in on early heat wave
Daily NK
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June 30, 2025
With muggy weather arriving early in North Korea this year, street vendors are profiting handsomely from surging demand for cool drinks and ice cream. A source in South Pyongan province told Daily NK recently that soft drink vendors in busy parts...
N. Korea executes 23 defense workers in brutal crackdown
Daily NK
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June 30, 2025
North Korea’s state security department has taken an ultra-hardline stance against “counterrevolutionary acts” at munitions factories in Jagang province earlier this year. Families of security officers at munitions factories circulated a report...
North Korean eludes military, landmines to cross border into South Korea
Yahoo News
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A North Korean who crossed the heavily fortified land border into the South has been detained and taken into custody, Seoul's military said Friday. The North Korean, identified as a male civilian, managed to cross the Military Demarcation Line...
Plastic surgery is legal in North Korea, eyebrow tattoos aren't, report finds
Korea JoungAng Daily
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July 4, 2025
Published: 04 Jul. 2025, 15:26 The Rodong Sinmun reports on June 5 that Kim Jong-un met with Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, during his visit to North Korea on June 4. [YONHAP] While cosmetic surgery is legally allowed in...
Satellite evidence points to heightened operations at N. Korean nuclear site
Daily NK
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July 3, 2025
I took another look at North Korea’s uranium refinery in Pyongsan county, North Hwanghae province, using various satellite images. I utilized thermal IR and nighttime light photography, along with high-resolution satellite imagery, to assess the...
Pacom Commander: North Korea Remains Central Concern
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES 09.26.2011 Courtesy Story North Korea’s challenges to Asia-Pacific security and stability were most acute in 2010, but remain a central concern for U.S. Pacific Command, Pacom’s commander said today. North Korea’s nuclear...
China steps in as US pulls back from North Korea
Daily NK
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July 3, 2025
As the United States appears to be stepping back from its strategy of promoting democracy in North Korea through information campaigns, China is quietly moving to fill that void. Recent reports from Daily NK show China’s gradual efforts to reshape...
North Korea inaugurates luxury tourist resort
The Nordic Times
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June 27, 2025
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented a plan for all Americans to wear body-monitoring technology that tracks their health in real time. The measure is described as a crucial part of the national initiative...
South Korea’s New Business Diplomacy with North Korea
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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July 2, 2025
Editor’s Note: This article is part of the symposium “President Lee and North Korea.” The full symposium can be found here. Earlier this year, I registered for an absentee ballot and voted for my home country’s special election, South Korea’s 21st...
North Korea to Send More Infantry to Russia
theTrumpet
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North Korea plans to send more infantry to Russia to help Moscow fight its war against Ukraine, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said Thursday. The new deployment is expected to begin in July or August. North Korea also plans to send...
Looking for a beach escape? North Korea just opened one.
Korea JoungAng Daily
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July 2, 2025
Published: 02 Jul. 2025, 10:51 Updated: 02 Jul. 2025, 13:48 Visitors play at the new Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist zone that opened on July 1, North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun reported July 2. [RODONG SINMUN/NEWS1] For years, foreign tourists have...
South Korea closely tracking radioactivity after North Korea reportedly dumps nuclear waste into rivers
The Independent
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July 2, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...