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The United States extended its ban on Americans traveling to North Korea for the tenth consecutive year, citing continued safety concerns. In a notice published Monday in the Federal Register, the U.S. State Department said the travel ban will remain in effect through Aug. 31, 2027, unless extended or revoked. Secretary of State Marco Rubio []
This week, the NK News Podcast presents a special episode on one of the most unlikely stories in World Cup history: North Korea’s extraordinary run at the 1966 tournament and the English town that embraced the team as its own. Sixty years after the DPRK stunned Italy and reached the quarterfinals, this episode revisits how []
South Korean authorities have detained a cargo ship over suspected violations of U.N. sanctions on North Korea, Seoul’s foreign ministry announced on Wednesday, months after the bust. The 10,730-ton Prada, formerly known as the Sophia, was detained after entering the South Korean port of Pyeongtaek in March, an ROK Foreign Ministry spokesperson told NK News. []
Doctors saved a North Korean man by removing a chicken bone that had obstructed his breathing for six months, according to a Russian hospital, in another case documenting how Russians have rendered medical aid to DPRK citizens amid an influx into the country for work. The 2-cm chicken bone fragment was lodged in the man’s []
A leading cryptocurrency firm disputed claims that it employed a North Korean information technology (IT) worker but acknowledged it had “engaged” with the Pyongyang-linked operative. In a statement posted on social media Monday, blockchain and Web3 software company Consensys stated it “identified and contained a threat” earlier this year from an individual it had engaged []
North Korea appears to have eyed China’s railway expertise to revamp its outdated rail or subway networks, Chinese state media revealed in new footage about DPRK Premier Pak Thae Song’s visit to Beijing. Pak traveled to China on a two-day state visit from July 10 and held meetings with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and President []
North Korea released water from its border dam without warning this week after heavy rain hit its southern territory, a practice Seoul warns is a safety risk for people living downstream. The partial water release from North Korea’s Hwanggang Dam was detected through satellite imagery, South Korea’s Environment Ministry said in a press release Monday. []
North Korea’s Songdowon International Children’s Camp has welcomed hundreds of Russian and Chinese kids as it kicked off its summer season on the DPRK’s east coast, two months after the U.K. blacklisted the institution over claims of indoctrination of Ukrainian youth. More than 400 Russian schoolchildren joined the camp’s first session of the year, which []
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his North Korean counterpart Choe Son Hui accused the U.S. and its allies of stoking tensions on the Korean Peninsula during strategic talks in Moscow on Monday. Lavrov welcomed Choe with a bouquet of flowers at the start of what the allies called the third round of their strategic []
South Korea’s government revealed it had spent over 150,000 to support a joint cheering campaign during the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Champions League in May, when a North Korean club visited the South for the first time in eight years. The Unification Ministry said Monday it had approved up to 319.45 million won (about 215,000) []
