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Multiple images and videos published in Russian media in recent weeks show Moscow’s troops using several types of North Korean rockets and artillery shells against Ukraine, providing what one expert called evidence “beyond a reasonable doubt” of arms transfers between Pyongyang and Moscow. The most recent example came via a so-called war correspondent Telegram channel, […]

North Korea has finally inched toward accepting that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, opening the country to citizens marooned abroad for nearly four years. At the same time, Pyongyang is in the process of rethinking its diplomatic activities and has closed at least nine overseas missions in recent months. One result of these changes is […]

A South Korean border observatory facing North Korea flicked on the lights to a large-scale Christmas display over the weekend, nearly a decade after suspending a similar holiday installation that Pyongyang denounced as an “unpardonable provocation.” Gimpo City held a ceremony on Christmas Eve to turn on the lights at Aegibong Peace Park, located around […]

In the grand ballroom of a five-star Seoul hotel, the spotlight turned to a North Korean defector. She related her harrowing experience of escaping from the DPRK, and she burst into tears describing how she became “like a dead body” when forcibly repatriated, her weight dropping from 126 pounds to just 60. But in the […]

North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile on Sunday, Japan's Coast Guard and the South Korean military said, as Pyongyang condemned U.S.-led military shows of force as tantamount to "a preview of a nuclear war".

“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with and columns by North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years. Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing [email protected] and including their first name and city of residence. Today’s question is about what it’s like […]

From saying you have a ‘tough life’ while drinking with friends to joking about how worthless the money is, the list of banned speech in North Korea is as seemingly endless as it is arbitrary – as a new museum in Seoul shows.