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North Korea

  • 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 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
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Russian politics
    Putin ‘gratefully’ accepts Kim’s invitation to North Korea

    Trip would be first to the east Asian country by Russian president since 2000 as ties deepen

    Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met on Wednesday at the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s far east
  • 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
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Kim pledges support for Russia’s ‘sacred fight’ in Ukraine

    Vladimir Putin signals talks with North Korea’s leader cover possible supply of weapons

    President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un at the Vostochny Сosmodrome
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Kim arrives in Russia for talks with Putin on expected arms deal

    North Korean leader’s visit could seal deal to supply military equipment for Moscow’s war in Ukraine

    Kim Jong Un waving from the train
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    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-depth
    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, 5 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    North Korea’s Kim plans to visit Putin in Russia to discuss arms sales, says US

    Moscow is seeking more weapons supplies from Pyongyang to use in Ukraine war

    Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    Russia proposes joint naval drills with North Korea and China

    Exercises would be a first for Pyongyang as it tightens ties with Moscow

    An image taken from TV footage of Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese politburo member Li Hongzhong
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    US warns of ‘advancing’ arms talks between Russia and North Korea

    Negotiations come as Moscow tries to secure munitions to stave off Ukrainian counteroffensive

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    News in-depth
    Power-starved North Korea turns to solar energy to keep the lights on

    Cheaper panels and increasing domestic assembly offer an alternative to regime’s dilapidated electricity grid

    Two balconies on the light pink building have mini-solar panels on them. Red flowering plants in pots stand on some of the balconies
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    North Korea claims US soldier was escaping ‘racism’ in military

    Pyongyang makes first public comments on case of Travis King after army private crossed border last month

    A TV screen shows a file image of American soldier Travis King during a news program at the Seoul railway station on Wednesday
  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russia requested munitions from North Korea, says US

    Defence minister Sergei Shoigu travelled to Pyongyang to secure further weapons

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu attend a military parade in Pyongyang on July 27
  • 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
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine fires North Korean rockets to blast Russian positions

    Artillery crews are pounding Putin’s invasion forces with Pyongyang-made munitions that can ‘do crazy things’

    Ukrainian troops prepare the North Korean rockets for launch near Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia late last month
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Russian defence minister vows to strengthen military ties with North Korea

    Sergei Shoigu’s visit to Pyongyang marks 70th anniversary of Korean war armistice

    Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, left, meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Wednesday
  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    US soldier’s dash to North Korea puts focus on border weak spot

    A guided tour gave Private Travis King the chance to cross one of the world’s most tightly guarded frontiers

    A montage with a picture of King in front of a North Korean flag
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    US soldier detained after crossing into North Korea

    Incident comes at time of high tensions between Washington and Pyongyang

    US and South Korean soldiers at Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    North Korea nuclear tensions
    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 nuclear tensions
    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-depth
    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
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    FT Magazine
    Two North Korean defectors: a tale of secrets, lies and love

    After she fled to South Korea, Kim Joo Kyung couldn’t stop thinking about her first love. She decided to try to find him

  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    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
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