Agence France-Presse on MSN1d
North Korea halts tours to border city near China: travel agencies
North Korea has halted international trips to a city near its border with China, travel agencies said on Wednesday, abruptly ...
North Korea Sends Reinforcements to Russia's Kursk
Pyongyang will provide more troops to Russia, who will be deployed to the Kursk region, according to South Korea's ...
On Chinese Tuna Boats, North Koreans Trawl for Cash for Kim Jong-un
Thousands of miles from home, North Koreans work on Chinese tuna longliners in the Indian Ocean for pay that goes to their ...
The Associated Press on MSN9d
Chinese fishing vessels used North Korean crews in breach of UN bans, a report says
A report says a fleet of Chinese fishing vessels used North Korean crews in violation of U.N. bans and many were apparently ...
The Washington Post8d
North Korea opens to a group of international travelers for the 1st time in years
In February 2024, North Korea accepted about 100 Russian tourists, the first foreign nationals to visit the country for ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists23h
Assured distraction: How attacks on South Korea’s nuclear reactors could be a smoke screen for wider conflict
An attack on South Korean reactors or spent fuel storage pools would release large amounts of radioactivity and cause massive ...
North Korea is open. Who’s going?
The first Western tourists are trickling back into the totalitarian Kim Jong Un regime—and splurging on propaganda ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute4h
Russia and China in the Indo-Pacific: China’s Use of the Instruments of Power
In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal ...
In North Korea’s desolate border city, Western tourists return – and are shocked by what they find
Visitors on first post-Covid trip impressed by tech boom but shocked by ‘brainwashed’ schoolchildren in ‘desolate’ port of ...
North Korea Threatens US With Nuclear Response
Pyongyang blasted the U.S. "provocations," including last week's ICBM test-launch and a nuclear submarine's port call at ...
I was one of the first Western tourists to visit North Korea in 5 years. I was surprised we were allowed to see signs of poverty.
Luca Pferdmenges, a travel influencer, was among the first Western tourists to visit North Korea since 2020. He was surprised ...