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A South Korean border city has cast doubt on reports that North Korea tested loudspeakers aimed at the South on Thursday morning, after local media cited residents who said they had heard the broadcasts. “We are unable to determine exactly what happened,” an official from Paju City’s security team told NK News, suggesting a resident […]

A Chinese travel agency claims it has been invited to organize youth tours to North Korea’s Wonsan Kalma beach resort from this week, though a tourism insider expressed skepticism that the trips will actually take place. In a post on social media earlier this month, the Chinese travel agency Offline said it had received an […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended an exhibition showcasing both new and old unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on Thursday and called for “absolute superiority” in drone technology, describing it as an essential choice to meet the demands of modern warfare. The “Unmanned Aviation Technology Development-2026” exhibition displayed various strategic and tactical multipurpose UAVs, suicide […]

A U.S. general’s pitch to bring an advanced military task force to Korea has highlighted Washington’s view of the peninsula as more than a standalone front against North Korea, while raising the specter of another standoff with China. During an event in Washington this month, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson said he […]

Switzerland formally opened its first diplomatic office in North Korea on Thursday evening, with Bern’s top diplomat in attendance. Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis and a DPRK diplomat cut a red ribbon at the office’s opening ceremony in Pyongyang, according to photos and footage he shared on social media late Thursday. In the post, the minister […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un kept a busy public schedule this week amid rising inter-Korean tensions, traveling to China, posing for photos with military commanders and attending a drone exhibition. But domestic-facing outlets made no mention of the growing standoff with the South, even as the DPRK military deployed artillery to prominent border locations. […]

North Korea staged live-fire demonstrations of suicide drones, cruise missiles and large-caliber rockets for a drone exhibition attended by leader Kim Jong Un, according to state media on Friday, a day after the U.S., South Korea and Japan offered wildly different estimates of the number of projectiles involved. The demonstrations on Thursday featured various tactical […]

The public disclosure of information about a suspected North Korean nuclear facility by Seoul’s unification minister triggered the U.S. to start restricting intelligence sharing earlier this year, South Korea’s intelligence agency has confirmed. National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director Lee Jong-seok delivered the agency’s assessment during a briefing for the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee on Thursday, […]

North Korean cybercriminals stole $6.36 billion in cryptocurrency from the Binance exchange on Thursday, recording by far the biggest virtual theft in history, according to a U.S. blockchain analytics firm. In a blog post, TRM Labs said an attacker drained funds from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, to wallets across 10 […]

Earlier this week, a small park on the inter-Korean border, about an hour’s drive from Seoul, became the center of media attention. The reason was that North Korean artillery had appeared across the river from the Aegibong observatory, with its barrels pointed toward South Korea. The sight of artillery guns positioned within view of a […]