#north-korea

#north-korea

North Korea's Naegohyang Women's FC is due to play a South Korean women's team in Suwon on May 20 the first time Pyongyang has permitted its athletes to travel to the South in more than seven years. For some, it is an indication that the North is deploying "sports diplomacy" to ease strained bilateral ties. The rare visit comes as North Korea has framed the South as its "primary foe and invariable principal enemy" in a recently rewritten constitution that removes notions of reunifying the peninsula, which has been divided since the 1950-1953 Korean War.

The new constitution, distributed by South Korea's Ministry of Unification on May 6, contains four major changes: The goal of reunifying the Korean peninsula has been abandoned, and South Korea is no longer viewed as part of a shared national community A new territorial clause has been introduced, defining North Korea as a country bordering China and Russia to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south Kim Jong Un has been given exclusive authority over the use of nuclear weapons Clauses related to the achievements of his predecessors, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, have been removed

The Transnational Justice Working Group found that 153 people were condemned to death in North Korea between January 2020 and mid-December 2024 on various charges, marking a jump of nearly 250% compared to the equivalent time period before the January 2020 closure.

North Korea's testing spree involved ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, expanding its nuclear-capable forces aimed at South Korea. The tests included anti-aircraft weapons and electromagnetic systems.

Kim Ju-ae's public appearances alongside her father have emphasized her military credentials, including driving a tank, and state media has described her as a great person of guidance.

The incident, Drift said, was a 'highly sophisticated operation' involving 'the use of durable nonce accounts to pre-sign transactions that delayed execution' and the compromise of multisig signers' approvals.

In 1986, when Norwegian delegate Ellen Wille stood on stage at Fifa's annual congress in Mexico and demanded the creation of a World Cup for women, it sparked support from one of the room's unlikeliest allies. Delegates from North Korea, so the story goes, were inspired by Wille's speech and returned to Pyongyang with a plan: to use women's football as a tool to reassert their collapsing power on the world stage.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has unveiled dozens of nuclear-capable rocket launchers ahead of a key congress of the governing Workers' Party, according to state media. Kim hailed the 600mm-calibre rocket launchers as wonderful and attractive during the ceremony on Wednesday, adding that new military and construction goals will be set during the upcoming congress. list of 4 itemsend of list Fifty such launchers were presented by North Korean munitions workers, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday.

It's been over a year since Ukrainian forces captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk, but the fate of the two men still hangs in the balance as activists accuse the South Korean government of dragging its feet. The two have asked to relocate to South Korea. In the North, they could face punishment for letting themselves be taken alive. "I won't survive [going back]. Everyone else blew themselves up. I failed," one of the soldiers told South Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo.