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The Fourth Chair: Vietnam’s Pyongyang Showing
(Source: Korean Central News Agency) After spending years watching North Korea’s parades, usually half awake at odd hours, counting missiles on a grainy livestream, they rarely surprise me anymore. But this year’s did. Something about the...
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Pyongyang’s vanishing islands: Satellite images reveal aggressive sand mining in Taedong River
Recent satellite images capture the gradual disappearance of uninhabited islands in the Taedong River in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang as a result of the extraction of sand and gravel to serve as aggregate in construction projects. Around...
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North Korean listeners express loss after Radio Free Asia broadcasts end in July
Two North Korean individuals who secretly listened to Radio Free Asia for years expressed profound loss after the U.S.-funded broadcaster ceased transmissions in early July due to changes in government policy, telling Daily NK the shutdown closed...
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We’re not North Korea: Why Vanderbilt must oppose Trump compact
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The Leaf Chronicle - Tennessee
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When a government tells universities what they must teach and pledge to receive funding, that’s not education — it’s coercion and indoctrination. This is not new. We’ve seen it before: In the United States before the Civil Rights era, universities...
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Pyongyang building ‘Korean Berlin Wall’ along DMZ, warns lawmaker in Seoul
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Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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This undated satellite image purports to show four concrete barriers, each about 1 ½ miles long, being built along the border by North Korea. (ICEYE/Yu Yong-weon) Satellite images obtained by a South Korean lawmaker show that the North is...
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N. Korean couple divorces over disagreement on having children amid economic hardship
A North Korean couple in their 20s quarreled so severely about having children that they eventually divorced, as severe economic hardship causes more couples in North Korea to delay having children or give up the idea altogether. “A young couple...
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North Korea's Kim, Trump Could Meet During APEC Summit
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Zee News
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could meet with US President Donald Trump on the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit later this month, possibility at the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea's unification...
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Charlie Kirk: the latest in a long line of political martyrs, from left and right
Donald Trump has posthumously awarded the rightwing influencer Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the US. In an emotional ceremony at the White House on October 14, Trump told his Kirk’s widow Erika that...
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Pyongyang hosts grand parade and unveils massive ICBM
Holding vast military parades has been something of a pastime for communist countries in Asia in recent weeks. Vietnam got the ball rolling with a Hanoi parade on 2 September, followed by Beijing the following day. North Korea is the latest to...
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North Korea's Kim, Trump could meet on sidelines of APEC summit in South Korea: Unification minister
Published: 14 Oct. 2025, 21:43 Unification Minister Chung Dong-young speaks during a parliamentary audit session on Oct. 14. [YONHAP] North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific...
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North Korean IT Workers Use VPNs and Laptop Farms to Evade Identity Verification
In a sprawling network of covert remote labor, more than 10,000 North Korean IT professionals have infiltrated global technology and freelance marketplaces by exploiting VPNs, virtual private servers (VPS), and so-called “laptop farms” to conceal...
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Márquez’s “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” Mirrored in Global Politics
When Gabriel García Márquez begins Chronicle of a Death Foretold with the line “On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar…”, the reader already knows the outcome. The suspense lies not in what happens, but in how a whole town lets it...
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‘Key’ to US-North Korea meeting lies in Trump’s ‘determination’: South Korean minister
ISTANBUL The “key” to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “lies in the determination” of Trump, a top South Korean official said Tuesday. “Based on the analysis of open information and data, both the US...
N. Korea's Kim, Trump could meet on sidelines of APEC summit in S. Korea: unification minister
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit later this month, possibility at the border village of Panmunjom, the unification minister...
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N. Korea's Kim, Trump could meet on occasion of APEC summit in S. Korea: unification minister
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit later this month, possibility at the border village of...
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(LEAD) N. Korea's Kim, Trump could meet on occasion of APEC summit in S. Korea: unification minister
(ATTN: ADDS more details in last 3 paras) SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit later this month,...
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South Korea: Russia could have helped North Korea create a new intercontinental missile
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Babel
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North Korea likely received technological assistance from Russia in developing its new “Hwasong-20” intercontinental ballistic missile. This was stated by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea Jin Yong Soon, Yonhap reports. A...
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N. Korea tells military officers China, Russia critical to economy and defense modernization
The Workers’ Party of Korea Secretariat has issued an order to high-ranking military officers underscoring the strategic importance of North Korea’s relationships with China and Russia, assigning each country distinct roles in supporting...
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North Korea Debuts Latest Intercontinental Ballistic Missile at Military Parade
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un held a massive military parade on Friday and Saturday in Pyongyang that included the public debut of North Korea’s most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-20. The Hwasong-20 is not...
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Will Xi succeed with his second grand strategy?
Xi Jinping is shifting China from an export-driven economy to the orchestrator of a new world order. Aug. 31: Leaders from Global Majority countries pose for a photo ahead of the dinner hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Shanghai...
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