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  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    North Korean hackers use AI for more sophisticated scams

    Cyber criminals backed by Pyongyang turn to artificial intelligence as they try to secure funds

    Kim Jong Un pictured this month
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida seeks summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

    Tokyo hopes diplomatic breakthrough will boost premier’s domestic popularity

    Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
  • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
    News in-depth
    Kim’s rejection of Korean reunification opens perilous new era

    Nuclear weapons development and strong ties with Russia embolden Pyongyang to escalate threats towards Seoul

    Kim Jong Un and government officials clapping their hands
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Kim Jong Un abandons aim of unification with South Korea

    North Korean leader labels Seoul ‘principal enemy’ as he drops historic commitment to reconciliation

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un addresses the Supreme People’s Assembly on Monday
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    North Korea nuclear tensions
    North Korea tests first solid-fuel ‘hypersonic’ missile

    Pyongyang claims successful launch as regime increases weapons sales to Russia

    A solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile launch, in a photo provided by North Korean state media on Sunday
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    South Korean islanders shelter after Pyongyang launches artillery shells

    North Korea bombardment raises tensions after historic foes scrapped military agreement last year

    People in Seoul watch a television showing a news broadcast of North Korea firing artillery
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    OutlookChristian Davies
    The upside-down world of North Korean elections

    Polls are valued more for propaganda value than democratic choice

    An image released by North Korea’s state news agency showing citizens lining up to vote
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    North Korea scraps military agreement with Seoul as tensions rise

    South Korea had partially suspended the deal after Pyongyang launched its first spy satellite

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, centre right, and his daughter, centre left
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    North Korea claims to have launched its first spy satellite

    Pyongyang’s third attempt follows Russia’s pledge to support Kim Jong Un’s space ambitions

    The Malligyong-1 military reconnaissance satellite was launched on Tuesday night, according to North Korean state media
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    The Big Read
    Kim Jong Un’s comeback

    Despite sanctions, the North Korean dictator has built up alliances with Russia and China and continued to develop nuclear weapons

    Montage image of Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and a missile
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    News in-depth
    Flights tracking North Korean sanctions busters anger China

    Beijing sees western surveillance of illicit oil shipments as pretext to expand military operations in Pacific

  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    ReviewFilm
    Beyond Utopia film review — stark documentary follows North Korean defectors

    The film offers startling insights into the prison state

    An elderly woman sits in a room, talking
  • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
    Andrei Lankov
    Russia and North Korea are baring their teeth

    By dangling the threat of military co-operation, the two states are probably warning Seoul not to arm Ukraine

    Vladimir Putin points something out to Kim Jong Un and his entourage during his visit to the Cosmodrome
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    InterviewSouth Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korea says China must push Pyongyang to curb nuclear plans

    Kim Yung-ho admits sanctions regime is ‘not working’ as North Korea and Russia pursue closer ties

    South Korea’s unification minister Kim Yung-ho
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    North Korea returns detained US soldier Travis King

    Washington says it has custody of army private who dashed across border from South Korea in July

    A man walks past the large TV screen with the image of Travis King next to the newsreader
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Russian politics
    Putin ‘gratefully’ accepts Kim’s invitation to North Korea

    Trip would be first to the east Asian country by Russian president since 2000 as ties deepen

    Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met on Wednesday at the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s far east
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Putin and Kim’s ominous marriage of convenience

    A North Korea-Russia arms deal is bad news for Ukraine, the US, and even China

    Men in suits stand in a launch site of a rocket
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Kim pledges support for Russia’s ‘sacred fight’ in Ukraine

    Vladimir Putin signals talks with North Korea’s leader cover possible supply of weapons

    President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un at the Vostochny Сosmodrome
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Kim arrives in Russia for talks with Putin on expected arms deal

    North Korean leader’s visit could seal deal to supply military equipment for Moscow’s war in Ukraine

    Kim Jong Un waving from the train
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    The last Covid reopening? North Korea eases its pandemic self-isolation

    Kim Jong Un seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing and Russia while maintaining coronavirus-era controls

    Kim Jong Un at a launch ceremony of what he says is a new nuclear attack submarine on September 6
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Person in the News
    Kim Jong Un: a dictator poised for an arms deal with Putin

    The North Korean leader’s growing alignment with Moscow raises the risks of instability in an already dangerous region

    Joe Cummings illustration of Kim Jong Un holding a missile wrapped as a gift, with Vladimir Putin stretching out a hand behind him
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    North Korea leans on Russia to bolster weapons trade

    US warns Pyongyang will ‘pay a price’ for arming Moscow in Ukraine conflict

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, right
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    North Korea’s Kim plans to visit Putin in Russia to discuss arms sales, says US

    Moscow is seeking more weapons supplies from Pyongyang to use in Ukraine war

    Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    Russia proposes joint naval drills with North Korea and China

    Exercises would be a first for Pyongyang as it tightens ties with Moscow

    An image taken from TV footage of Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese politburo member Li Hongzhong
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    US warns of ‘advancing’ arms talks between Russia and North Korea

    Negotiations come as Moscow tries to secure munitions to stave off Ukrainian counteroffensive

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
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