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    • 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
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      News in-depth
      Power-starved North Korea turns to solar energy to keep the lights on

      Cheaper panels and increasing domestic assembly offer an alternative to regime’s dilapidated electricity grid

      Two balconies on the light pink building have mini-solar panels on them. Red flowering plants in pots stand on some of the balconies
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      North Korea claims US soldier was escaping ‘racism’ in military

      Pyongyang makes first public comments on case of Travis King after army private crossed border last month

      A TV screen shows a file image of American soldier Travis King during a news program at the Seoul railway station on Wednesday
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia requested munitions from North Korea, says US

      Defence minister Sergei Shoigu travelled to Pyongyang to secure further weapons

      North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu attend a military parade in Pyongyang on July 27
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      US foreign policy
      US seeks to deepen Tokyo-Seoul security links to boost Pacific deterrence

      White House pushes trilateral defence co-operation amid rising threat from China and North Korea

      US, Japanese and South Korean naval vsesels participate in a trilateral anti-submarine exercise in the international waters off the Korean Peninsula last year
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine fires North Korean rockets to blast Russian positions

      Artillery crews are pounding Putin’s invasion forces with Pyongyang-made munitions that can ‘do crazy things’

      Ukrainian troops prepare the North Korean rockets for launch near Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia late last month
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Russian defence minister vows to strengthen military ties with North Korea

      Sergei Shoigu’s visit to Pyongyang marks 70th anniversary of Korean war armistice

      Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, left, meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Wednesday
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      US soldier’s dash to North Korea puts focus on border weak spot

      A guided tour gave Private Travis King the chance to cross one of the world’s most tightly guarded frontiers

      A montage with a picture of King in front of a North Korean flag
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