MOSCOW: Russia and North Korea on Wednesday (Apr 30) began construction of a road bridge between the two countries that will span the Tumen river, part of an effort to strengthen their strategic partnership, Russia’s prime minister said. The bridge is being built near the existing “Friendship Bridge”, a railContinue Reading
SEOUL: Around 600 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine have been killed and thousands more wounded, a Seoul lawmaker said on Wednesday (Apr 30), after Pyongyang officially confirmed deploying troops to aid Moscow. “So far, North Korean troop casualties are estimated at around 4,700, including approximately 600 deaths,”Continue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea has unveiled a new warship it claims is a destroyer armed with the “most powerful weapons”, at a launch ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un, state media said on Saturday (Apr 26). The announcement comes about a month after Kim oversaw the test of new suicide andContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea criticised the United States for deploying a B-1B strategic bomber in a recent joint military drill with South Korea, describing the move as an “open threat” to Pyongyang’s security, state media KCNA reported on Thursday (Apr 17). In a statement carried by KCNA, a spokesperson for the country’sContinue Reading
2025 is shaping up to be an annus horribilis for the dedicated community of North Korean human rights activists. The past two months have seen U.S. funding sources and programs decimated in the wake of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s aggressive federal cost-cutting initiative. Now support from the KoreanContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has test-fired a newly developed sniper rifle, state media said Saturday (Apr 5), as he inspected special forces whose training he said bolstered “actual war capability for guaranteeing victory”. Such units are among the thousands of troops that South Korea’s spy agency saysContinue Reading
In a head-spinning reversal of U.S. policy, President Donald Trump has set about engaging in negotiations with Russia, leaving Ukraine largely as an observer in efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Also apparently missing from the talks is any mention of North Korea. This does not bode well for breathingContinue Reading
North Korea fired several ballistic missiles toward its western waters around 1:50 p.m. KST on Monday, according to the South Korean military. It marked the North’s fifth missile launch this year and came on the same day the United States and South Korea kicked off their “Freedom Shield” annual jointContinue Reading
Last week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea issued an appeal to the international community. She expressed concern about the future of civil society work on North Korean human rights. The cause for alarm is a sudden freeze on the funds of the National EndowmentContinue Reading
Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are all typically seen as the largest threats to the U.S., but to what extent the public prioritizes these threats is less clear. The four have the independent means to threaten U.S. interests regionally, if not globally, while greater cooperation across the four createsContinue Reading
