Pyongyang's resort gamble opens for business
North Korea officially opened its long-delayed Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone on July 1, a sprawling seaside resort billed by state media as a new national landmark. The announcement, carried by th...
Yun Ye-won, Park Su-hyeon
Pyongyang’s resort gamble opens for business
Russia deepens North Korea ties with culture tour
A Russian delegation led by Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova arrived in Pyongyang on June 28 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a landmark trea...
2025.06.29(Sun)
|Kim Kyeong-pil, Park Su-hyeon
US overture meets Pyongyang's defiant rhetoric
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has voiced interest in resuming dialogue with North Korea, but Pyongyang has responded with a familiar volley of defian...
2025.06.29(Sun)
|Kim Kyeong-pil, Park Su-hyeon
Trump says he can 'solve' North Korea standoff
U.S. President Donald J. Trump said on June 27 that he would “get the conflict solved with North Korea,” while also asserting that such a conflict “wo...
2025.06.29(Sun)
|Kim Eun-joong (Washington), Park Su-hyeon
Seoul warns North Korea could send more troops to Russia by August
North Korea is likely preparing to dispatch additional troops to Russia as early as July or August, South Korea’s intelligence agency told lawmakers o...
2025.06.27(Fri)
|Kang Jung-a, Park Su-hyeon
Kim Jong-un's wife makes first public appearance in 18 months
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s wife Ri Sol-ju made her first public appearance after about one and a half years. The official Korean Central News A...
2025.06.26(Thu)
|Lee Ka-young, Kim Seo-young
U.S. to extend national emergency over North Korean threats
The second administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has once again extended the United States’ national emergency with respect to North Korea. Ac...
2025.06.24(Tue)
|Park Sun-min, Kim Mi-geon
N. Korea sends combat engineers to Russia, seeks bigger rewards
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu on June 17 to discuss “cooperation matters and future plans ...
2025.06.19(Thu)
|Kim Min-seo, Kim Seo-young
N. Korea to send 6,000 troops to help rebuild Russia's Kursk region
North Korea will deploy 1,000 military engineers and 5,000 construction troops to support reconstruction efforts in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian med...
2025.06.18(Wed)
|Yang Seung-shik, Roh Suk-jo, Yang Ji-ho, Kim Seo-young
North Korea goes silent after Seoul halts propaganda broadcasts
North Korea has gone quiet along its southern border, South Korea’s military said on June 12, marking a possible de-escalation in a year-long psycholo...
2025.06.12(Thu)
|Yang Ji-ho, Park Su-hyeon
South Korea halts anti-North loudspeaker broadcasts along border
South Korea’s military has suspended all loudspeaker broadcasts directed at North Korea across the demilitarized zone, a move Seoul is framing as a go...
2025.06.11(Wed)
|Yang Ji-ho, Park Su-hyeon
N. Korea uprights capsized destroyer 2 weeks after launch mishap
North Korea has reportedly uprighted a partially capsized destroyer nearly two weeks after it ran aground during launch. The North Korea-focused media...
2025.06.04(Wed)
|Park Sun-min, Kim Seo-young
North Korea's Mount Kumgang nears UNESCO World Heritage designation
Mount Kumgang, one of North Korea’s most iconic natural landmarks, known for its seasonal landscapes, is on track to be added to the UNESCO World Heri...
2025.05.27(Tue)
|Jeong Min-ha, Park Su-hyeon
North Korea fires cruise missiles after warship launch failure
North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles into the East Sea on the morning of May 22, just hours after state-run media publicly acknowledged the fail...
2025.05.22(Thu)
|Yang Ji-ho, Lee Jung-soo
Kim Jong-un rages over warship accident, calls it 'serious crime'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has condemned a major accident during the launch of a newly built 5,000-ton destroyer, calling it a “serious accident”...
2025.05.22(Thu)
|Kim Myeong-il, Kim Min-seo, Kim Seo-young
North Korea unveils new air-to-air missile in first live-fire test
North Korea on May 17 released footage of a live-fire drill involving a new medium-range air-to-air missile launched from a fighter jet—suggesting the...
2025.05.19(Mon)
|Yang Seung-shik, Yang Ji-ho, Lee Jung-soo