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  • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
    Andrei Lankov
    Russia and North Korea are baring their teeth

    By dangling the threat of military co-operation, the two states are probably warning Seoul not to arm Ukraine

    Vladimir Putin points something out to Kim Jong Un and his entourage during his visit to the Cosmodrome
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    InterviewSouth Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korea says China must push Pyongyang to curb nuclear plans

    Kim Yung-ho admits sanctions regime is ‘not working’ as North Korea and Russia pursue closer ties

    South Korea’s unification minister Kim Yung-ho
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    North Korea
    North Korea returns detained US soldier Travis King

    Washington says it has custody of army private who dashed across border from South Korea in July

    A man walks past the large TV screen with the image of Travis King next to the newsreader
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Putin and Kim’s ominous marriage of convenience

    A North Korea-Russia arms deal is bad news for Ukraine, the US, and even China

    Men in suits stand in a launch site of a rocket
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    News in-depthNorth Korea
    The last Covid reopening? North Korea eases its pandemic self-isolation

    Kim Jong Un seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing and Russia while maintaining coronavirus-era controls

    Kim Jong Un at a launch ceremony of what he says is a new nuclear attack submarine on September 6
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Person in the News
    Kim Jong Un: a dictator poised for an arms deal with Putin

    The North Korean leader’s growing alignment with Moscow raises the risks of instability in an already dangerous region

    Joe Cummings illustration of Kim Jong Un holding a missile wrapped as a gift, with Vladimir Putin stretching out a hand behind him
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    News in-depthNorth Korea
    North Korea leans on Russia to bolster weapons trade

    US warns Pyongyang will ‘pay a price’ for arming Moscow in Ukraine conflict

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, right
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    US foreign policy
    US seeks to deepen Tokyo-Seoul security links to boost Pacific deterrence

    White House pushes trilateral defence co-operation amid rising threat from China and North Korea

    US, Japanese and South Korean naval vsesels participate in a trilateral anti-submarine exercise in the international waters off the Korean Peninsula last year
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    North Korea launches long-range missile that flies 1,000km towards Japan

    Test condemned by Japanese and South Korean leaders attending Nato summit

    A TV screen in Seoul, South Korea, shows file footage of a North Korean missile launch
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    North Korea threatens to shoot down US spy planes

    Pyongyang intensifies rhetoric ahead of South Korean president’s attendance at Nato summit

    A TV screen shows a file image of a North Korean rocket launch
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    News in-depthNorth Korea
    YouTube cracks down on North Korean vloggers

    Seoul says young influencers promoting Harry Potter and water parks are ‘psychological’ propaganda

    A woman on her phone passes a propaganda dance troupe in front of the Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    North Korea
    Russia resumes oil exports to North Korea after pandemic hiatus

    US warns Pyongyang plans to deliver more weapons to Moscow as isolated regimes deepen ties

    Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during a meeting in Vladivostok in 2019
  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    Seoul retracts evacuation order after failed North Korean satellite launch

    South Korea says warning was ‘false alarm’ after rocket crashes into Yellow Sea

    People in Seoul watch a TV broadcast about North Korea firing a space satellite on Wednesday
  • Monday, 29 May, 2023
    Japan threatens to shoot down any North Korean missile that enters its territory

    Tokyo puts ballistic missile defences on alert after Pyongyang signals imminent launch of military satellite

    A TV screen shows a North Korean rocket launch during a news programme at a railway station in South Korea
  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    US foreign policy
    Biden steps up commitment to South Korean nuclear defence

    Deployments designed to deter Pyongyang, reassure Seoul and avoid a dangerous arms race in Asia

    From left, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, US president Joe Biden and US first lady Jill Biden at the Korean War Memorial in Washington on Tuesday
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    North Korea claims success in building first spy satellite

    Pyongyang says satellite will strengthen country’s ability to conduct pre-emptive strike and monitor US and South Korean activity

    Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae inspect the National Aerospace Development Administration, in a photo released by North Korean state media
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    North Korea claims successful solid fuel missile test

    Weapons can be fuelled in secret giving adversaries less time to mount a preventive strike

    A view of a test launch of a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency
  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    North Korean missile launch triggers evacuation alarm in Japan

    South Korean military suggests test could have been a solid-fuel long-range missile

    A man at a railway station in Seoul on Friday walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast of a North Korean missile test
  • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
    Visual investigation
    Inside North Korea’s oil smuggling: triads, ghost ships and underground banks

    An investigation into the Chinese criminal networks helping to prop up the rogue nuclear regime

    A CGI reconstruction of the Unica, a vessel known to deliver oil to North Korea, in front of a map of East Asia
  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    North Korea
    N Korea to restart diplomatic activity after three years of Covid isolation

    Stalled nuclear talks could benefit as leader Kim Jong Un slowly reopens country, diplomats say

    Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the ruling Workers’ party in North Korea
  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    South Korea’s ruling party leader hints at need for nuclear weapons

    Recent North Korean missile launches raise questions about US commitment to Seoul’s defence

    A Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile launched in Pyongyang on Saturday, seen in a photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency
  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    OutlookChristian Davies
    Lessons in preparing for war on the Korean peninsula

    As Kim Jong Un ratchets up his nuclear arsenal, Seoul residents face questions over how to plan for a crisis

    Commuters stand behind a glass safety barrier as they wait for their underground metro train in Seoul
  • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
    The Big Read
    North Korea’s evolving nuclear threat: too great to deter?

    Kim Jong Un’s growing arsenal is setting the scene for a risky game of military one-upmanship with the US and its east Asian allies

    Kim Jong Un, centre, at a weapons ceremony in Pyongyang on December 31
  • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
    News in-depthKim Jong Un
    Kim adopts trappings of royalty as he presents ‘princess’ to North Korea

    Ju Ae sparks speculation over successor after joining her father and generals at missile launch

    Kim Jong Un, centre, with his daughter Kim Ju Ae standing next to him at a ceremony in November 2022 in North Korea
  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    North Korea fires suspected ICBM into waters off Japan

    Launch of Pyongyang’s longest-range weapon seen as an angry response to moves by US and east Asian allies

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