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North Korean leader Kim visits mausoleum on 31st anniversary of founder's death
NHK
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North Korean media have reported that the country's leader Kim Jong Un visited the mausoleum of his late grandfather and state founder Kim Il Sung on the 31st anniversary of his death. North Korea's ruling Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun...
North Korean Hackers Deploy Rare Nim-Based Malware on macOS to Target Web3 Startups
TechRepublic
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July 7, 2025
Image: Adobe/DC Studio Security researchers at SentinelLabs have uncovered a malware campaign targeting macOS users, particularly those in the cryptocurrency and Web3 sectors. The malware, dubbed “NimDoor,” is linked to North Korean hackers and...
North Korea to welcome foreign businesspersons to fall trade fair: tour agency
NK News
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July 7, 2025
North Korea is set to welcome foreign businesspersons to its biggest international trade fair this fall, according to an event partner, despite having barred external participants from the previous spring edition at the eleventh hour earlier this...
The Economist is hiring a Seoul-based researcher/reporter
The Economist
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July 7, 2025
The Economist is seeking a Seoul-based researcher/reporter to work with the East Asia Bureau. This is an exciting, multifaceted job that encompasses reporting, researching, fact-checking, fixing, interpreting and, on occasion, writing. The...
North Korea bars Western influencers from trade fair tour, says China-based operator
Malay Mail
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July 7, 2025
BEIJING, July 7 — North Korea has barred Western influencers from joining a delegation of tourists to an international trade fair in October, a China-based tour operator told AFP today. Diplomatically isolated North Korea has welcomed sporadic...
US Ally Flies New Submarine Hunters To Sink North Korea's Navy
Newsweek
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July 7, 2025
South Korea began flying its fleet of P-8A maritime patrol aircraft—acquired from its ally the United States—to counter North Korea's navy, including its destroyers and submarines. The P-8A is capable of conducting anti-submarine and anti-surface...
China plans major aid initiative as N. Korea relations warm
Daily NK
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July 7, 2025
China appears to be moving toward providing comprehensive “strategic support” to North Korea as the two countries’ relationship shows signs of warming. According to a Daily NK source in Pyongyang recently, the Chinese embassy in North Korea has...
Laos set to join North Korea in supporting Russia’s invasion, says Ukraine
NK News
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July 7, 2025
Laos looks poised to join North Korea in backing Russia’s war effort against Ukraine, Kyiv has warned, accusing Vientiane of preparing to send military engineers to the Kursk region under the pretext of humanitarian demining. “The latest country...
Universities Must Secure Identities as Social Engineering Attacks Increase
EdTech Magazine
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China has adopted an operational-relay base model that relies on botnets of infected routers in the U.S. That’s because attacks “coming from inside the house” are easier to pass off as normal network activity. Salt Typhoon, a Chinese advanced...
Russia turns to N. Korean workers amid Western sanctions
Daily NK
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July 6, 2025
North Korea and Russia are in talks about expanding their cooperation on technology and sending more workers to Russia. The rapid progress they’re making in both military and economic areas suggests their partnership goes beyond simply trying to...
Creative Ways To Share The Good News With North Korea
Patheos
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July 6, 2025
North Koreans lack free access to the Good News [Image from Wikimedia Commons]North Korea, referred to as the Hermit Kingdom, isolates itself to the extreme from the rest of the world. Its government tightly controls the country’s borders....
North Korea and Denuclearization: Regime Survival and Nuclear Weapons
The Geopolitics
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July 6, 2025
I aim to explore the possibility of North Korea’s denuclearization during Mr. Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president. I argue that, if a comprehensive package deal ensuring regime survival is offered, North Korea may denuclearize. This is...
Doctrinal flexibility and technological adaptation for the Gambia Armed Forces
The Standard Gambia
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July 7, 2025
- Advertisement - By Lt Col (Rtd) Samsudeen Sarr In today’s ever-shifting global security arena, no army worth its salt can afford to rest on the laurels of past doctrines. Stagnation, in military terms, is an invitation to defeat. My own journey...
North Korea-linked threat actors spread macOS NimDoor malware via fake Zoom updates
Security Affairs
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July 5, 2025
North Korea-linked threat actors spread macOS NimDoor malware via fake Zoom updates North Korea-linked hackers use fake Zoom updates to spread macOS NimDoor malware, targeting crypto firms with stealthy backdoors. North Korea-linked threat actors...
North Korea has a new luxury beach resort. But the country isn't open to most tourists
WVIA - Pennsylvania
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July 5, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea — When President Trump met North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un for a historic summit in 2018, he tried to show a rosy future North Korea could aspire to. "As an example, they have great beaches. You see that whenever they're...
Big tech rules, agriculture among issues in US trade talks with South Korea
The Economic Times
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July 7, 2025
South Korea was one of the first countries to start U.S. trade talks when both sides agreed in April to craft a package aimed at removing tariffs, but it is now seeking an extension to the 90-day pause on 25% tariffs set to expire on July 9. Trade...
Factbox-Big tech rules, agriculture among issues in US trade talks with South Korea
Regional Media News - Iowa
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July 6, 2025
By Jihoon Lee and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea was one of the first countries to start U.S. trade talks when both sides agreed in April to craft a package aimed at removing tariffs, but it is now seeking an extension to the 90-day...
Synthetic Sovereign: How Kim Jong Un Could Rule Forever as a Deepfake
The Diplomat
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July 7, 2025
In the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), even death may not end the reign of authoritarian leaders. Nowhere is this possibility more plausible — or more dangerous — than in North Korea, where the regime’s legitimacy is built on...
Feds Crack Down on North Korean Spies Working Remote IT Jobs Through American ‘Laptop Farms’
Breitbart
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July 5, 2025
The DOJ has busted 29 North Korean laptop farms across 16 states, alleging that illicit IT workers located in the communist dictatorship obtained employment with over 100 American companies to help fund the regime’s weapons programs. The DOJ...
N Korean detained after crossing DMZ, Seoul says
Taipei Times
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July 4, 2025
A North Korean civilian voluntarily crossed the heavily mined land border between it and South Korea, aided by the South’s military in a delicate 20-hour operation, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said yesterday. Tens of thousands of North...