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Russia and North Korea deepen relations with symbolic road bridge
Ties between Moscow and Pyongyang have grown extensively amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Russia and North Korea Open First Road Bridge
Moscow says the crossing will boost trade and tourism, while some observers argue it will help the two countries discreetly move military cargo and personnel.
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Russia opens first road bridge with North Korea
Russia and North Korea have opened their first road bridge across the Tumen River as political, economic and military ties between the two countries deepen.
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Russia and North Korea open first road bridge across their shared border
Connection across Tumen River is further sign of closer ties between the two countries since start of war in Ukraine Russia and North Korea have opened the first road bridge across their shared border, in the latest sign of the rapidly deepening ties between the two countries since the start of the war in Ukraine. The one-kilometre bridge spans the Tumen River between Khasan in Russia’s far east and Tumangang in North Korea, along a remote and sparsely populated stretch of the countries’ shared
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What North Korea’s new warship reveals about Kim’s moves to secure surrounding waters
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s promise to unveil more projects in eight months’ time at the launch of the country’s second modern destroyer hints at another major strategic military asset, according to experts. “The nuclearisation of our navy is being realised, making it increasingly suited, diversified and practical for the use of our deterrent,” Kim said while commissioning the Kang Kon in the southeastern port of Wonsan on Sunday. Kim was accompanied by his daughter and potential...
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North Korea commissions destroyer to become part of its nuclear response system
The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un boarded the ship before its maiden voyage
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North Korea’s Kim launches second nuclear destroyer as US-South Korea-Japan drills start
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un commissioned his second naval destroyer and called for building a more reliable nuclear deterrent, state media reported on Monday, as the US, South Korea and Japan began a trilateral military exercise he views as a security threat. The development comes as North Korea dials up pressure on the US after rebuffing President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back a major military drill with South Korea in a conciliatory step towards Kim. Observers say North Korea wants
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(LEAD) N. Korea commissions nuclear-capable naval destroyer Kang Kon
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has commissioned its new naval destroyer ...
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North Korea deploys warship ‘capable of annihilating retaliatory strikes’
Leader Kim Jong Un says vessel will form part of Pyongyang's nuclear response system, strengthen naval forces.
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N. Korea commissions nuclear-capable naval destroyer Kang Kon
SEOUL, Sept. 7(Yonhap) -- North Korea has commissioned its new naval destroyer K...
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China and South Korea accuse each other of undermining key principles
China and South Korea have exchanged formal protests over the highly sensitive Taiwan question and Korean unity. The two countries have been trying to improve relations in recent months, but South Korea’s national security adviser Wi Sung-lac said he had issued “a serious objection” after an official Chinese statement welcomed moves “towards the peaceful coexistence of the two states of South and North Korea”. Meanwhile, Beijing “lodged serious representations” with Seoul over an art event that.
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News live: Two more Australians confirmed safe in Nepal-Tibet floods; Hanson to make cost of living ‘worse’, union boss warns
Follow the day’s news live. Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Chris Bowen has called a joint statement about China’s missile test “strong” despite it not referring to the nation by name. One of the biggest talking points of this week’s Pacific Islands Forum been the lack of a regional response to China’s nuclear-capable inter-continental ballistic missile test in July, as AAP reports. I think that leaders in the Pacific were deeply concerned: one, that a missile test
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US military’s cyber unit plan threatens South Korea’s diplomatic balancing act
The potential deployment of an American army specialist unit capable of integrated operations across domains, including cyberspace, to South Korea could further reorient the US military’s role on the peninsula from deterring North Korea towards containing China, analysts say. Recent reports that the Pentagon is considering moving elements of the Second Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF), currently deployed in Germany, to South Korea have drawn attention to potential changes in the structure of the..
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US-Iran war: Old videos falsely claim to show new attacks on American bases
As US-Iran hostilities flare up and strikes has resumed, so has a wave of misinformation online. Old and unrelated videos are flooding social media, falsely presented as footage of new attacks. As tensions escalate, lips filmed in Dubai, Russia and the US have been misrepresented as Iranian strikes on US bases in the Gulf. Another 68-year-old video of a US nuclear test has been falsely claimed to show Iran detonating mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Vedika Bahl fact-checks in Truth or Fake.
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Japan at UN: All those supporting Russia must be held accountable
North Korea's involvement in Russia's military aggression against Ukraine is a clear violation of international law, and the country must be held accountable along with Moscow's other allies.
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From North Korea to ICE: Photojournalist David Guttenfelder on the front lines in Minneapolis
David Guttenfelder from The New York Times has spent 35 years photographing history around the world. Now, he is documenting it at home. The award-winning photojournalist is known for his work in Rwanda, North Korea and conflict zones across the globe. This year, he turned his camera on Minneapolis, documenting the federal immigration crackdown and deadly clashes involving ICE. His exhibition "The People of Minneapolis vs. ICE" is currently on show at the Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festiv
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N. Korea downgrades diplomatic mission to London in protest of British sanctions over children's camp
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has downgraded its diplomatic mission in ...
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North Korea says hostile US policy unchanged, vows to strengthen nuclear force
North Korea said on Monday the United States’ hostile policy remained unchanged and vowed to continue strengthening its nuclear force, rejecting repeated US calls for its denuclearisation. In a statement carried by state media KCNA, a foreign ministry spokesperson accused Washington of maintaining a confrontational stance through its commitment to the “complete denuclearisation” of North Korea, criticism of the country’s human rights record and planned joint military exercises with South Korea a
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(LEAD) N. Korea denounces U.S. hostile policy toward it, vows 'toughest' response
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday denounced the United States for...
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N. Korea denounces U.S. hostile policy toward it, vows 'toughest' response
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday denounced the United States for...
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North Korea’s defence minister dismissed in reshuffle of military leadership
North Korea’s defence minister has been dismissed as part of a reshuffle of the country’s military leadership, state media reported Sunday. The “structural reorganisation plans” were decided during a meeting on Saturday led by Kim Jong-un, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. No Kwang-chol was not only dismissed as defence minister but also demoted in the ruling party leadership to “first vice-director of the Munitions Industry Department”, KCNA said. Kim Song-gi, director of the General.
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(LEAD) N. Korea replaces defense minister with Kim Song-gi in military reshuffle: KCNA
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has replaced its defense minister in a re...
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N. Korea replaces defense minister with Kim Song-gi in military reshuffle: state media
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has replaced its defense minister in a re...
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Trump steps up stunts as US midterms loom
From trolling Canada about a lake to suddenly talking about Kim Jong-un, US President Donald Trump’s recent distractions speak louder than words. The former reality television star has long been known for his reliance upon a simple tactic: when you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation. But the 80-year-old’s recent stunts appear to be even more targeted than usual at wrestling the news away from the Iran war and the economy as difficult midterm elections loom in November. “This..
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France's nuclear tests in Algeria: A colonial legacy that still radiates 60 years later
France's nuclear tests in Algeria: A colonial legacy that still radiates 60 years later Tassa Adidi on Wed, 08/26/2026 - 09:02 As France withholds maps and refuses to help clean radioactive sites from its Sahara nuclear tests, Algeria has begun decontamination efforts on its own An Algerian man looks at a danger sign at the entrance of the nuclear bomb test site of Tena Fila mountain at Ain Ekra, Algeria, on 25 February 2010 (Fayez Nureldine/AFP) Off Mokhtar Benabdelkader, a 30-year-old engi
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Russian Military Conducts Mobile ICBM Test
The missile was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the northwestern Arkhangelsk region, the Defense Ministry said.
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Russia and North Korea Are Scrambling Trump’s Alliance Strategy
Pyongyang’s military is sharpening itself on Ukrainian battlefields. What does that mean for U.S. defense coordination?
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N. Korean leader sends message of sympathy to Chinese, Nepali presidents over deadly floods
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent messages of symp...
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South Korea open to reviving North Korea talks, seeks progress on nuclear weapons
Seoul believes the resumption of talks between the US and North Korea should focus on progress on the North Korean nuclear weapons issue and must not undermine the country's security readiness.
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South Korea backs Trump’s North Korea outreach, but warns against being sidelined
South Korea supports US President Donald Trump’s efforts to resume dialogue with North Korea, but aims to ensure its security posture is not weakened and that Seoul is not sidelined, according to South Korea’s national security adviser. Seoul believed the resumption of talks between the US and North Korea should focus on progress on the North Korean nuclear weapons issue and must not undermine the country’s security readiness, Wi Sung-lac told reporters on Friday. “One point to keep in mind is.
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South Korea, Japan and US set joint drills despite Trump cuts
South Korea said on Friday it would hold joint military exercises with the United States and Japan in September, after Washington scaled back annual drills with Seoul in an apparent bid to encourage dialogue with North Korea. The three countries would conduct the North Korea-focused Freedom Edge exercise from September 7 to 11 in international waters east and south of South Korea’s Jeju Island, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. “This exercise is a defensive drill conducted annually by...
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Why North Korea Doesn’t Want to Meet With Trump
Kim Jong Un is done talking about denuclearization.
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Russia has asked North Korea for more powerful ballistic missiles, Ukrainian intelligence agency reports – photo
Russia has asked North Korea to provide KN-30 ballistic missiles.
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North Korea threatens ‘powerful response’ to US arms deal with South Korea
North Korea threatens ‘powerful response’ to US arms deal with South Korea North Korea has condemned US plans to supply South Korea with tactical missiles and fund projects monitoring human rights abuses in the country, warning of a “powerful response” to what Pyongyang described as Washington’s hostile actions. The US State Department said it had approved the possible sale of AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II missiles and related equipment to South Korea at an estimated cost of $125 million. North Ko
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The Goldilocks Fallacy: The Undefined Limits of Korea’s Nuclear Role
“Unthreatening and respectful.” That is how the president of the United States described North Korea on Aug. 16, 2026, in his social media post ordering his secretary of defense to scale back joint exercises with South Korea. Two years earlier in Seoul, the U.S.-South Korean alliance agreed that South Korea’s role in an American nuclear operation would involve exercises and training, formalizing those guidelines at a Nuclear Consultative Group meeting co-chaired by Vipin Narang, then-acting assi
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South Korean ex-spy reveals toll of secret missions to North: ‘treated as expendable’
In 1984, Ha Tae-jun, then 24, spotted a notice recruiting for a special unit at the Military Manpower Administration office in central Seoul’s Yongsan district. The notice was scrawled on the wall in marker, with little explanation. Ha applied, and his life was changed forever – training as a South Korean operative for covert missions into North Korea. “About a month after submitting background check documents, they said I’d passed and told me to meet at a cafe near my house,” said Ha, now 66...
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Syria removed: Which countries are still on the US ‘terror’ list – and why?
The US decision leaves three nations - Cuba, Iran and North Korea - on its 'State Sponsors of Terrorism' blacklist.
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First North Korea-Russia road bridge nearly complete, symbolizing new era of military cooperation
The first-ever road bridge linking North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River appears close to completion, according to satellite imagery reviewed by De
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South Korea scrambles jets after Russian military planes enter air defence zone
South Korea said on Wednesday it had scrambled fighter jets in response to Russian military aircraft entering its air defence zone, the second such incursion in weeks. The relationship between the countries has worsened since South Korea joined Western sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and since Moscow built stronger ties with North Korea. Seoul’s defence ministry said multiple Russian aircraft had entered and then left its air defence identification zone over the East Sea, also.
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North Korea sharpens anti-Japan rhetoric as Russia ties grow
North Korea has stepped up its verbal attacks on Japan, issuing more than a dozen denunciations through state media since early July and hardening its rhetoric in recent days by accusing Tokyo of whipping up a “neo-militarist frenzy” and preparing for a “war of aggression”. Analysts said the latest broadsides from Kim Jong-un’s regime reflected both renewed confidence in Pyongyang as ties with Moscow deepen, and a desire to frame Asia-Pacific geopolitics as a contest between rival blocs –...
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Why was China’s response to North Korea’s latest missile launches so muted?
China’s muted response to North Korea’s latest missile launch, which came soon after top diplomat Wang Yi’s visit to Seoul, underscores how Beijing is prioritising Pyongyang’s stability over near‑term denuclearisation, according to analysts. North Korea started launching more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles just hours after Wang concluded his two-day visit on Thursday, the foreign minister’s first official trip to South Korea in nearly five years. South Korea and Japan condemned the...
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South Korea pledges to help Trump revive talks with North Korea’s Kim
South Korea and the US agreed to maintain close coordination on efforts to revive dialogue with North Korea, days after Pyongyang rebuffed President Donald Trump’s overtures and launched a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles. South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a phone call late on Monday that Seoul would work to ensure that Trump’s recent messages lead to renewed US-North Korea discussions and peace on the Korean peninsula, Seoul’s Foreign...
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US removes Syria from state sponsor of terrorism list
The United States on Monday delisted Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism, rescinding a decades-old designation that had severely impeded investment. The US State Department also revoked its designation of al-Nusrah Front – also known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – as a global terrorist organisation, leaving Cuba, Iran and North Korea as the three countries designated by Washington as state sponsors of terrorism. “Today’s action will help foster additional investment in Syria to promote...
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HIGHGeneral
Trump Suddenly Wants a Summit With Kim Jong Un. Why Now?
With the Iran war stalled and Seoul slow to deliver on a $350 billion pledge, the U.S. president is dangling a one-on-one summit that could sideline South Korea.
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Seoul sees no signs of imminent North Korean troop deployment to Russia
South Korea’s Ministry of Defense said North Korea continues to prepare for an additional deployment of troops to Russia, but has detected no signs that such a deployment is imminent.
UKRINFORM ·
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Analysis-Trump's Kim gambit deepens doubts over US reliability at a key moment for Asia
By John Geddie, Yukiko Toyoda, Ben Blanchard and Aftab Ahmed TOKYO/TAIPEI/NEW DELHI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's olive branch to North Korea's Kim Jong Un at the expense of a long-standingally comes at a pivotal moment for U.S. security ties in Asia, as partners from Japan to India reassess how much they can rely on Washington.
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Japan accelerates line toward militarization — DPRK
The authors of the report highlighted the events held on August 15 at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which is viewed in North Korea and several other Asian countries as a symbol of militarism
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Reports credit North Korea’s newest missile of terror with 2.5-ton warhead and 900-km range. Expert explains why those numbers can’t both be true
Russia may receive up to 150 North Korean missiles, including the KN-30.
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