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A Chinese dissident who escaped the country on an inflatable boat has been detained in South Korea. Rights groups are urging for him to be granted asylum, following three previous escape attempts that resulted in his return to China.

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile and other weapons toward the sea on Tuesday, according to South Korea’s military, marking the latest in a succession of weapons tests by North Korea this year.

The implementation of the death penalty surged last year, with recorded executions reaching a global peak not witnessed since 1981, according to a new report. Most of this increase occurred in Iran, where the yearly execution rate doubled, as reported by the human rights organization Amnesty International.

A Russian cargo ship, potentially transporting two nuclear reactors for submarines and possibly bound for North Korea, experienced a series of explosions and sank under unexplained circumstances, approximately 60 miles off the coast of Spain, according to a CNN investigation.

North Korea announced on Friday that it will deploy new long-range artillery systems this year, which are capable of striking the capital region of South Korea, and it will commission its first naval destroyer in the coming weeks.

North Korea has amended its constitution to define its territory as bordering South Korea and has removed mentions of reunification, as indicated by a draft of the text reviewed by Reuters. This change formalizes leader Kim Jong Un’s initiative to regard the two Koreas as distinct states.

At the unveiling of a towering bronze sculpture depicting North Korean and Russian soldiers in combat, Kim Jong Un praised troops who opted for death over capture while fighting in Ukraine. This was a striking and unusually explicit acknowledgment of Pyongyang’s long-suspected battlefield doctrine.

According to information from a Russian source, the import of slave labor from North Korea into Russia is personally and exclusively managed by the head of the SVR, Sergey Naryshkin. He personally negotiated the opening of this channel during his visit to North Korea.

Unpredictable Kim Jong-Un observed the tests of his newly upgraded weapons and praised it as a significant enhancement to his military. This included a test of an upgraded, high-thrust, solid-fuel engine for weapons, state media reported on Sunday.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has presented North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with a rifle as they signed a friendship treaty in Pyongyang, according to state media reports.

As the Iran war drives oil prices above $100 a barrel, with ships being attacked and mines laid in the Strait of Hormuz, a taboo has been broken, and nuclear energy is back in vogue. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen admitted that “the current Middle East crisis is a stark reminder” that it was “a strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back on” nuclear energy.

On the morning of June 18, 2023, the cargo ship Angara dropped anchor near the Russky Bridge, the towering span connecting the island of the same name to Vladivostok. Having departed Novorossiysk six months earlier, it was the vessel’s first stop at a Russian port since the start of its long journey.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visits the White House on Thursday for meetings that provide U.S. President Donald Trump an opportunity to rely on a key security partner for backing in his conflict with Iran, potentially straining a decades-old alliance.

Between 2023 and early 2026, North Korea supplied Russia with up to 11 million artillery shells and rockets, according to an investigation by the independent exiled Russian publication Important Stories and the UK-based non-profit Open Source Center.

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned the United States and South Korea for continuing with their yearly joint military exercises during a dangerous time for global security and cautioned that any threat to the North’s security would lead to “terrible consequences.”

Fake IT workers employed by North Korea are utilizing AI technology, including voice-changing tools, to deceive Western companies into hiring them, according to Microsoft.

On Saturday, North Korea released images showing leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter at a rifle range, the latest propaganda pictures portraying the child as a potential successor.

US President Donald Trump’s assertion that Iran will soon possess a missile capable of reaching the United States is not supported by US intelligence reports and seems to be overstated, according to three sources familiar with the reports, casting doubt on his rationale for a possible attack on the country.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appointed his young daughter to a leadership position in his country’s Missile Administration, which is responsible for overseeing Pyongyang’s nuclear forces, according to a senior government official cited by South Korean media.

Experts believe that a struggle for power between Kim Jong Un’s sister and daughter to lead North Korea could result in a family member facing execution.

Kim Jong Un and his daughter offer comfort to North Koreans as they reveal apartments for families of soldiers who died fighting for Putin, in the latest indication that Ju Ae is being prepared as his successor.

A new report from Google has found evidence that state-sponsored hacking groups have utilized the AI tool Gemini at nearly every stage of the cyber attack cycle.

South Korea’s spy agency informed lawmakers on Thursday that it believes the teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is on the verge of being designated as the country’s future leader as he seeks to extend the family dynasty to a fourth generation.

North Koreans who are caught watching South Korean television shows face public humiliation, years in labor camps, or even execution—with the harshest punishments for those too poor to pay bribes, according to testimonies given to Amnesty International.

A Wildberries warehouse employee in Elektrostal described the conditions under which women from North Korea are working after being brought to the facility in large numbers.