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N. Korean street vendors vash in on early heat wave
Daily NK
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June 30, 2025
With muggy weather arriving early in North Korea this year, street vendors are profiting handsomely from surging demand for cool drinks and ice cream. A source in South Pyongan province told Daily NK recently that soft drink vendors in busy parts...
North Korean nationals wanted in cryptocurrency embezzlement scheme; $5M reward
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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The feds have a big warning after they say foreign agents infiltrated one Atlanta business and stole hundreds of thousands. Agents in the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office announced the indictments of four North Korean men just a little while ago. Now,...
Understanding the ‘I’ in denuclearization: Lessons from North Korea and Iran
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 30, 2025
Published: 01 Jul. 2025, 00:03 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Yoo Jee-hye The author is the head of the diplomatic and security news department at the JoongAng Ilbo. Since the administration of former President Moon Jae-in, the...
N. Korea executes 23 defense workers in brutal crackdown
Daily NK
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June 30, 2025
North Korea’s state security department has taken an ultra-hardline stance against “counterrevolutionary acts” at munitions factories in Jagang province earlier this year. Families of security officers at munitions factories circulated a report...
Crypto Heists Hit All Time High: North Korea Linked Bybit Hack Drives $2.1 Billion Loss in H1 2025
Techstory
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June 29, 2025
In the first half of 2025, hackers made off with an astonishing $2.1 billion worth of cryptocurrency—the highest half year total on record. According to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, this surge was fueled primarily by a single, audacious...
Seoul presses Pyongyang for advance notice on dam discharges to prevent flooding
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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Freedom Bridge, overlooking the Imjin River, is seen from the South Korean side on Jan. 4, 2007. (Wikimedia Commons) South Korea’s government urged the North to give advance notice if it releases water from its Imjin River dam as the monsoon...
S. Korea Seeks Advance Notice from N. Korea Before Dam Release
MENAFN
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June 29, 2025
(MENAFN) South Korea on Friday called on North Korea to provide advance warnings before releasing water from a border-crossing dam during the critical monsoon season, citing safety concerns, local reports revealed. Chang Yoon-jeong, deputy...
World’s most exclusive resort? What we know about North Korea’s lavish new seaside development
CNN
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June 27, 2025
Seoul CNN — Kim Jong Un personally cut the ribbon on a new resort hailed by state media as a “national treasure-level tourism city” — a lavish seaside development set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and...
Seoul says no change in radioactive levels in sea over suspected N.K. nuclear waste discharge
Yonhap News Agency
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July 1, 2025
SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- The unification ministry said Tuesday there has been no meaningful change in radioactive levels in the Yellow Sea following a news report over North Korea's suspected discharge of wastewater from its uranium refining...
North Korea stages rallies marking Korean War anniversary with anti-US messaging
NK News
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June 27, 2025
An in-depth analysis of June 25th events, censoring of South Korean soccer player and wet weather warnings On the 75th anniversary of the Korean War’s outbreak, North Korea reinforced its anti-U.S and anti-ROK propaganda, reiterating its claim of...
Through old ports and quiet borders, Incheon reveals Korea’s layered past
Korea JoungAng Daily
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July 1, 2025
Published: 01 Jul. 2025, 13:33 Students participating in the Incheon DMZ Tour pose for a photo infront of the General MacArthur statue at Jayu Park in Jung District, Incheon, on June 27. [PARK SANG-MOON] INCHEON — A closer view of North Korea,...
North Korea just opened a beach resort for 20,000 people. But who will visit?
CNN
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June 27, 2025
Seoul CNN — Kim Jong Un personally cut the ribbon of a new resort hailed by state media as a “national treasure-level tourism city” — a lavish seaside development set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and...
The race for long-range missiles between Japan and North Korea
NK Insider
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June 27, 2025
A MIM-104 Patriot mobile surface-to-air missile launcher in Kanagawa, Japan, in 2020 (Image: iStock/viper-zero) Eastern Asia is witnessing a military buildup not seen since the aftermath of WWII. North Korea is becoming an ever greater rogue...
North Korea may send military construction workers to Russia as early as July or August
The Independent
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June 26, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Seoul asks North Korea for advance notice of dam release
United Press International (UPI)
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SEOUL, June 27 (UPI) -- South Korea's Unification Ministry on Friday asked North Korea to give advance notice before releasing water from a dam across the border on the Imjin River, citing safety concerns for residents living in nearby areas. "We...
South Korea asks North Korea for advance notice of dam release as 'humanitarian matter'
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 27, 2025
Published: 27 Jun. 2025, 17:21 Water from the upper Imjin River is released from the Gunnam Flood Control Dam in Yeoncheon County, Gyeonggi, on June 25. [YONHAP] The South Korean government has called on North Korea to provide advance notice...
Six Americans caught trying to float rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea
The Independent
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June 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
‘No justice in North Korea’: Defectors at UN hearing testify about executions, mounting abuses by regime
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 26, 2025
Published: 27 Jun. 2025, 07:00 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Defector Maeng Hyo-shim speaks about her experience living and escaping North Korea during a public hearing hosted by the United Nations Human Rights Office in Seoul on...
S. Korea Asks N. Korea to Give Prior Notice of Dam Releases
KBS World
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June 27, 2025
Photo : YONHAP News The government has called on North Korea to provide prior notice before releasing water from a dam near the inter-Korean border, to prevent flooding on the South Korean side during the monsoon season. Chang Yoon-jeong, a deputy...
(LEAD) S. Korea calls on N. Korea to give prior notice before cross-border dam discharge
Yonhap News Agency
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June 27, 2025
(ATTN: UPDATES with more info from 3rd para; ADDS photo) SEOUL, June 27 (Yonhap) -- The unification ministry on Friday called on North Korea to provide prior notice before releasing water from a dam across the border, after the North's unannounced...