The supreme leader of North Korea has tried to hide the true purpose of the military site - but global analysts say sand traps with launch pads pose a slight giveaway

ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Google's Gemini are among the AI models that North Korean hackers are exploiting for fraud, experts warn In their relentless quest for foreign currency, North Korean cybercriminals have turned to artificial intelligence as a powerful new tool - one that analysts warn may be nearly impossible to block.

SEOUL -- A former sergeant in the North Korean military says that few of Pyongyang's soldiers have been captured fighting against Ukraine because they're told their families will be executed if they are caught alive.

According to the analyses and photos released by the independent website NK News along the 38th parallel, in the district of Ryokpho, something doesn't add up.

North Korea has stopped tourists visiting weeks after reopening its borders to westerners for the first time in five years. Travellers from the West were allowed into the country in February after Pyongyang continued to lift restrictions introduced during the Covid pandemic.

North Korea has stopped tourists from visiting, just weeks after the first Western tourists entered the country for the first time in five years. North Korea sealed itself off at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, and started to scale back restrictions in the middle of 2023.

Kim Jong Un was visiting a special forces base in North Korea in September when 20 of his soldiers reportedly "endangered the leader's life", with him then ordering their disappearance

South Korea’s spy agency said Wednesday that North Korea appears to have sent additional troops to Russia, after its soldiers deployed on the Russian-Ukraine fronts suffered heavy casualties.