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North Korea resumes missile tests, raising tensions with its rivals
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days after the end of the South Korean-U.S. military drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal.
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North Korea says leader Kim supervised tests of cruise missiles designed to be fired from submarines
North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has supervised test firings of new cruise missiles designed to be launched from submarines and also reviewed efforts to build a nuclear-powered submarine.
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North Korea stresses alignment with Russia against US and says Putin could visit at an ‘early date'
North Korea says it has agreed to further strategic and tactical cooperation with Russia to establish a “new multi-polarized international order,” as the two countries work to build a united front in the face of their separate, intensifying tensions with the United States.
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Rare video from North Korea shows teens sentenced to hard labor for watching K-dramas
A video from inside North Korea shows two teenagers being publicly sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for watching Korean TV dramas, a rare glimpse into Kim Jong Un’s reclusive state that comes as its neighbor reports a soaring number of defectors since 2021.
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North Korea says it tested a nuclear-capable underwater drone in response to rivals' naval drills
North Korea says it has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response to a combined naval exercise by South Korea, the United States and Japan this week, as it continues to blame its rivals for raising tensions in the region.
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North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South and abolishes key agencies for cooperation
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries.
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North Korea says it launched hypersonic warhead in latest missile test
North Korea says it has flight-tested a new solid-fuel intermediate-range missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead as it pursues more powerful, harder-to-detect weapons designed to strike remote U.S. targets in the region.
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North Korea launches a ballistic missile toward the sea in its first missile test this year
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea launched an unidentified ballistic missile off the North’s east coast but gave no further details like how far the weapon flew.
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North Korea's Kim orders military to ‘thoroughly annihilate' US, South Korea if provoked
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his military to “thoroughly annihilate” the United States and South Korea if provoked, State media reported Monday that Kim made the order during a meeting with commanding army officers the previous day.
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North Korea's Kim says country will build more nuclear weapons in 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country will launch three additional military spy satellites and build more nuclear weapons.
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North Korea fires long-range ballistic missile into sea in resumption of launches
South Korea says North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea in a resumption of its weapons testing activities.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un calls for women to have more children to halt a fall in the birthrate
Kim’s latest appeal for women to have more children was made Sunday during the country’s National Mothers Meeting, the first of its kind in 11 years.
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South Korea partially suspends inter-Korean agreement after the North says it launched spy satellite
South Korea says it will partially suspend an inter-Korean agreement to restart frontline aerial surveillance of North Korea, after the North said it launched a military spy satellite in violation of United Nations bans.
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US tech companies hired thousands of North Koreans posing as Americans, FBI says
The Justice Department said Wednesday that IT workers dispatched and contracted by North Korea to work remotely with companies in St. Louis and elsewhere in the U.S. have been using false identities to get the jobs
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US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as North's leader Kim exchanges messages with Putin
A U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea in a demonstration of strength against North Korea.
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Who is Travis King? The American soldier who is back in the US after crossing into North Korea
Pvt. Travis King ran across the heavily fortified border from South Korea in July and became the first American detained in North Korea in nearly five years.
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U.S. soldier Travis King arrives in Texas after being expelled by North Korea
Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran across the border into North Korea this summer, has arrived back on American soil after being expelled by the reclusive state.
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US soldier Travis King is in American custody after North Korea expels him
Officials said they did not know exactly why North Korea decided to expel Pvt. Travis King, but suspected Pyongyang determined that as a low-ranking serviceman he had no real value in terms of either leverage or information.
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North Korea calls South's leader a ‘guy with a trash-like brain' as it slams his UN speech
North Korea has called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “a guy with a trash-like brain” and “a diplomatic idiot” as it blasted him for using a U.N. speech to issue a warning over the North’s deepening military ties with Russia.
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North Korean state media says Kim Jong Un discussed arms cooperation with Russian defense minister
North Korean state media says leader Kim Jong Un held discussions with Russia’s defense minister on strengthening “strategic and tactical coordination” between the countries’ militaries, as Kim continued a visit to Russia’s Far East that has raised concerns about an arms alliance that would fuel Moscow’s war on Ukraine.