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
SEOUL: The US aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson arrived at the southern city of Busan in South Korea on Sunday (Mar 2) as a show of force, South Korea’s navy said. The visit was part of the “ironclad” commitment of the United States to extended deterrence and to show readinessContinue Reading
As scam compounds in Southeast Asia continue to drive massive campaigns targeting victims around the world, WIRED took a deeper look at how Elon Musk’s satellite internet service provider Starlink is keeping many of those compounds in Myanmar online. Meanwhile, FTC complaints obtained by WIRED allege that an “OpenAI” jobContinue Reading
North and South Korea could not be more different. North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) is a dictatorship, with one of the world’s poorest economies and largest, nuclear equipped, militaries, and a population isolated from literally everyone. South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea, ROK) isContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country has come a long way in building a powerful army but weapons without ideology are simply “ironware”, as he stressed loyalty to some of its most elite military cohorts, state media reported on Tuesday (Feb 25). Kim’s remarks at theContinue Reading
Hackers affiliated with North Korea are believed to have carried out Friday’s (Feb 21) record US$1.5 billion hack of crypto exchange Bybit, according to security researchers. Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said on Friday an attacker gained control of an ethereum (ETH) wallet and transferred around US$1.5 billion worth of holdings toContinue Reading
MUNICH, Germany: The United States, Japan and South Korea renewed their “resolute” pledge to seek the “complete denuclearisation” of North Korea, according to a joint statement from the three allies released on Saturday (Feb 15). The statement came after new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held his first meetingsContinue Reading
North Korea is believed to be preparing to send another group of soldiers to come to Russia’s aid in the war in Ukraine, despite heavy combat losses already suffered by troops from the East Asian country. When Ukrainian forces crossed the border into the Kursk region of Russia in August 2024, Ukraine’s military commandersContinue Reading
