Jul 26 Watch 3:30 K-pop band 1VERSE, featuring two North Korean defectors, makes global debut By Lisa Desjardins, Harry Zahn The world of K-pop has fresh new faces: the band 1VERSE with a debut album and lead single, “Shattered.” The boy band has an improbable origin story that includes two North Korean defectors. Lisa Desjardins reports. Continue watching
Jul 05 Watch 5:29 How North Korean operatives are infiltrating U.S. companies to fund weapons programs By John Yang, Andrew Corkery, Gerard Edic This week, federal prosecutors charged four North Korean nationals with scheming to get hired by a U.S. company as remote workers and then steal nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency. It’s a relatively new North Korean threat: operatives using fake IDs… Continue watching
Jun 04 South Korea's new president vows to pursue talks with North Korea and bolster ties with U.S., Japan By Hyung-Jin Kim, Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press President Lee Jae-myung said he'll pursue pragmatic diplomacy and boost a trilateral Seoul-Washington-Tokyo cooperation based on the South Korea-U.S. alliance. Lee won a snap election Tuesday for a five-year term. Continue reading
Apr 08 South Korea fires warning shots as about 10 North Korean soldiers cross border By Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press South Korea says its military has fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the border. Continue reading
Mar 10 North Korea fires ballistic missiles into sea after the U.S. and South Korea began military drills By Kim Tong-Hyung, Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected from the North’s southwestern Hwanghae province. It called the weapons close-range but didn't say how far they flew. Continue reading
Jan 13 North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine haven't shown desire to defect, Seoul's spy agency says By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers that two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region haven’t expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea. Continue reading
Jan 07 North Korea says it tested hypersonic intermediate range missile designed to strike remote Pacific targets By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press North Korea says its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike targets in the Pacific. Continue reading
Dec 26 North Korean troops suffering heavy battlefield losses in Russia, Ukrainian intelligence says By Samya Kullab, Associated Press Ukraine’s military intelligence said Ukrainian strikes near Novoivanovka in Russia's Kursk region inflicted heavy casualties on North Korean units. It said North Korean troops also faced supply issues and shortages of drinking water. Continue reading
Dec 16 Ukraine claims North Korean troops were killed fighting alongside Russian forces By Samya Kullab, Associated Press This is the first reported casualties since the Pentagon and Ukraine announced North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to help it in the almost 3-year war. Continue reading
Dec 11 Ahead of Trump's return, Biden approves national security memo on China, Iran, North Korea and Russia By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press The memorandum was approved before Donald Trump takes office in January and it was shaped to help his team build its approach in dealing with the relationships involving America's most prominent adversaries and competitors. Continue reading