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Debris recovered from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv on 2 January was North Korean, the Reuters news agency is reporting. Citing a United Nations sanctions monitor, Reuters said debris recovered was from a Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile – made in North Korea. Three sanctions monitors travelled to Ukraine earlier this…
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Russia claims it has evidence that the gunmen who killed more than 140 people in an attack on a Moscow concert hall last week were linked to “Ukrainian nationalists”. In a statement, the Russian Investigative Committee said the attackers had received significant amounts of cash and cryptocurrency from Ukraine. The committee has not provided the…
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Russia’s foreign intelligence chief paid a visit to North Korea this week, the country’s spy service has said. Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), visited Pyongyang on 25-27 March. The aim of the visit was to deepen cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang and discuss broader regional security, SVR was quoted as…
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North Korea has shipped around 6,700 containers carrying millions of munitions to Russia since July, South Korea has claimed. The shipments might have included more than 3 million 152mm artillery shells or 500,000 122mm rounds, defence minister Shin Won-sik said. “It could possibly be a mix of the two, and you can say that at…
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Amidst recent hostilities, Ukraine’s top prosecutor revealed on February 16 that out of 24 North Korean ballistic missiles launched by Russia, only two accurately hit military targets, raising questions about the reliability of Pyongyang’s weaponry. Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin stated that a preliminary analysis indicated that all 24 ballistic missiles recently fired originated from North…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is currently speaking at at Munich Security Conference. He says Ukraine has “ruined the myth that Russian weapons have some advantage over Western ones”. “In reality, Russia is worse in all respects,” he says. The Ukrainian leader says this is why “for the first time in Russian history Putin bowed to Iran and North…
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Buoyed by the successful launch of a reconnaissance satellite and at least five intercontinental missiles, North Korea has described the outgoing year as one of “great turn and great change.” In a report to the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, which began a key meeting on Tuesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said 2023 was…
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North Korea has shut down its embassy in Madrid, Spain amid an economic crisis due to global sanctions, South Korean media said on Wednesday. The latest move came after Pyongyang closed its embassy in Angola and Uganda last month, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. North Korea did not give a reason for the decision but the…
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The Kremlin is planning to bring workers from North Korea to temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine, Kyiv’s National Resistance Centre has said. The report comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week. The National Resistance Center, which was created by Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, said Russia intends to…
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North Korea supplying arms to Russia would not significantly change the course of the war, a former Ukrainian president has suggested. Speaking about reports that Vladimir Putin may welcome Kim Jong Un in Russia to discuss potential arms deals this month, Petro Poroshenko told Sky News it highlights Mr Putin’s “complete isolation” during the conflict.…
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday said Travis King, the U.S. soldier who crossed the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) into the country last month, has admitted that he “illegally intruded” due to “inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army,” state agency KCNA reported. The report also claimed that King expressed a…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has approved the plan to launch the country’s first military spy satellite and vowed to exercise just right to self-defense to defend his country, the state-run media said on Wednesday. Kim on Tuesday met with the non-permanent Satellite Launch Preparatory Committee for launching the military first reconnaissance satellite and inspected…
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea east to the Korean Peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported on Saturday, citing South Korean military. Japan’s coast guard also said North Korea fired what could be a ballistic missile, which had already fallen. NKNews.org reported a second suspected ballistic missile before 8:16 a.m., citing “Japanese MND.”…
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Another ballistic missile launch by North Korea has been condemned as “serious provocation that harms peace”. The South Korean military said a pair of short-range ballistic missiles were detected overnight on Saturday, flying towards its eastern waters – the latest in the country’s barrage of weapons tests in recent days. The launch, the North’s sixth…
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South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has ordered an update to the military’s operational plans, aimed at countering North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile threats. Yoon said he wanted updated plans this week while visiting a military bunker that would serve as a command post in the event of a war. The announcement coincided with the…
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two cruise missiles toward the western waters, Yonhap news agency reported, citing a military official in Seoul. The military authorities of the Republic of Korea and the United States were reportedly assessing the details of the missiles. It was the second DPRK launch of cruise missiles this…
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