AI-created video featuring 3 S. Korean missionaries detained in N. Korea to air in Nov. An artificial intelligence-created video featuring three South Korean Christian missionaries who have been detained in North Korea for 10 years will air this month as part of a campaign to address issues related to detainees, the unification ministry said Tuesday.Nov 5, 2024By Yonhap
'Considerable' number of some 10,000 NK troops in Russia moved to front lines: S. Korea Some 10,000 North Korean troops have been deployed in Russia, with a "considerable" number of them having been dispatched to front-line areas, South Korea's defense ministry said Tuesday.Nov 5, 2024By Yonhap
N. Korean leader urges completion of flood rehabilitation before Dec. party meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected flood-hit areas and called for expediting rehabilitation to ensure its completion before a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in December, state media reported Tuesday.Nov 5, 2024By Yonhap
NK leader's sister says S. Korea-US-Japan air drills justify North's bolstering of nuclear forces The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un lambasted the recent joint air drills staged by South Korea, the United States and Japan, claiming they validate her country's policy of bolstering its nuclear forces, the North's state media said Tuesday.Nov 5, 2024By Yonhap
As many as 10,000 N. Korean troops are in Kursk, could join combat in 'coming days': State Dept. As many as 10,000 North Korean troops are in Russia's western front-line Kursk region and could engage in combat in the "coming days," a State Department spokesperson said Monday, amid growing concerns that their involvement could expand Moscow's war in Ukraine.Nov 5, 2024By Yonhap
Putin meets N. Korean FM Choe: TASS Russian President Vladimir Putin has met North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui at the Kremlin in Moscow, TASS reported, amid growing concerns over Pyongyang's troop deployment to Russia to support its war in Ukraine.Nov 5, 2024By Yonhap
N. Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles just ahead of US election North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, in the latest saber-rattling just hours ahead of the U.S. presidential election.Nov 5, 2024By Yonhap
S. Korean delegation to Ukraine returns home after discussion on N. Korean troop dispatch to Russia A South Korean government delegation to Ukraine returned home Monday after visiting Kyiv to discuss possible cooperation measures in response to North Korea's troop deployment to Russia, officials said.Nov 4, 2024By Yonhap
1st N. Korean troops come under Ukrainian attack in Kursk: Ukraine official The first batch of North Korean troops dispatched to Russia to fight in its war against Ukraine has likely already come under Ukrainian attack in the western Russian border region of Kursk, a Ukrainian official said Monday.Nov 4, 2024By Yonhap
N. Korea raises earthen mounds to block severed inter-Korean roads: S. Korean militaryNorth Korea has raised 11-meter-high earthen mounds to completely block inter-Korean roads that it blew up last month, South Korea's military said Monday, in yet another show of Pyongyang's efforts to sever ties with the South.Nov 4, 2024By Yonhap