North Korea tears down street lamps on roads connecting two Koreas North Korea has demolished street lamps on land routes connecting the two Koreas, in what observers say is a signal to South Korea that its leader Kim Jong-un is serious about abandoning the goal of peaceful unification with the South.Apr 18, 2024By Kwak Yeon-soo
NIS monitoring possible use of N. Korea's weapons technology for Iran's attack on Israel South Korea's spy agency said Wednesday it is monitoring whether North Korea's weapons technology was used in the ballistic missiles that Iran launched against Israel last week.Apr 17, 2024
Belarusian deputy FM visits N. Korea: KCNA Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Evgeny Shestakov has arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea's state media said Wednesday, in an apparent move to boost bilateral ties.Apr 17, 2024
US 'incredibly concerned' about suspected NK-Iran military ties The United States is "incredibly concerned" about long-suspected military cooperation between North Korea and Iran, a State Department spokesperson said Tuesday.Apr 17, 2024
Digital, human surveillance could extinguish 'all but the tiniest' freedoms for N. Koreans: US think tank The North Korean regime's growing use of digital technology, coupled with its extensive human surveillance system, could make "all but the tiniest freedoms" for its people evaporate, a U.S. think tank warned Tuesday, saying Pyongyang is moving toward a "panopticon" state.Apr 17, 2024
North Korea is buying Chinese surveillance cameras in a push to tighten control, report says North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces and collecting fingerprints, photographs and other biometric information from its citizens in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely, a report said Tuesday.Apr 16, 2024
US envoy says 'out of box' thinking under way to continue sanctions monitoring on NK The United States is looking at "out of the box" options with South Korea and other countries to continue the sanctions monitoring on North Korea, its top envoy to the United Nations said Tuesday, after Russia's veto on a U.N. mandate meant to renew the sanctions monitoring panel.Apr 16, 2024
NK refers to national founder's birthday as '4·15' instead of Day of the Sun: unification ministry The unification ministry said Tuesday that North Korea is believed to have changed the official name of the birthday of late national founder Kim Il-sung to just "4·15" from the Day of the Sun.Apr 16, 2024
N. Korea mentions outcome of S. Korea's latest general elections for 1st time North Korea's state media reported Tuesday that South Korea's ruling People Power Party (PPP) suffered a crushing defeat in last week's parliamentary elections, commenting on the election outcome for the first time about a week after the polls.Apr 16, 2024
N. Korea has capability to genetically engineer biological military products: US report North Korea has the capability to genetically engineer biological military products, an annual U.S. report showed Monday, noting Pyongyang has a "dedicated, national-level offensive" biological weapons (BW) program.Apr 16, 2024
