#north-korea

#north-korea

The report published on the 38 North website was based on research carried out under "Project Anthracite," a multi-year effort led by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) security think tank in London to use open source materials to produce a "networked overview" of North Korea's chemical weapons potential. The report points out that industrial facilities, universities and government-run research institutions have the equipment and access to adequate feedstocks to produce a number of chemical weapons agents.

Korean Central Television, the state broadcaster, is the only channel North Koreans get, and it's showing the farmers at work, he says. This leaves North Koreans largely in the dark about all the rushed diplomacy happening in the lead-up to June 12. "You can keep 25 million people completely in the dark. So the propaganda apparatus and the way the North Korean government tells different things to its people, and also restricts them from hearing things, is one of the things I was most interested in," says Martyn Williams, who records and watches North Korean state television every day from satellite TV, as part of his blog, North Korea Tech.

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.

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.