Information paradox: why we train our AI, but starve North Korea's minds

While we mark AI's transformation through data, 26 million North Koreans remain deliberately starved of information essential ...

News from outside disappears in North Korea

Despite setbacks in efforts to spread outside news in North Korea, Lee Young-hyeon, a defector-turned-lawyer in South Korea, ...

North Korea accelerates nuclear work at Yongbyon, report says

North Korea has been upgrading its Yongbyon nuclear facility throughout 2025, underscoring the regime's drive to accelerate ...

Decades-long efforts to send uncensored foreign news into North Korea are facing setbacks

Lee's Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio (FNK) station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea's 26 ...
Council on Foreign Relations

How North Korea Has Bolstered Russia’s War in Ukraine

North Korean troops and weapons have played an unexpectedly crucial role in sustaining Russia’s grinding military campaign in ...
Yonhap News Agency on MSN

Summary of domestic news in North Korea this week

The following is a summary of domestic news in North Korea this week. ------------ N. Korea enacts urban development law to provide better living conditions SEOUL -- North Korea's rubber-stamp ...
Human Rights Watch

Submission on North Korea’s Implementation of Recommendations from the Third and Fourth Cycles of the Universal Periodic Review for the Special Rapporteur’s Report

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...
Milwaukee IndependentOpinion

Russian reliance on North Korea signals how far Putin’s power has fallen since the Ukraine invasion

While Russia is not a vassal state to North Korea in the way it has become dependent on China, the dynamic marks a seismic ...