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North Koreans drinking 'deep sea water' as state media advertises bizarre new products
Daily Star
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August 18, 2025
There's water and then there's deep-sea water – and a North Korean company is trying to sell the latter to its fellow countrymen and women. In a bizarre advertorial spotted in the Pyongyang Times, a state-controlled English-speaking newspaper,...
North Korea’s Lazarus Group Exposed in $23M Crypto Heist That Crushed UK Startup Lykke
Crypto Economy
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August 18, 2025
TL;DR North Korea’s Lazarus Group is accused of stealing $23 million from UK-registered crypto exchange Lykke, leading to its permanent closure. More than 70 customers are pursuing compensation through UK courts, claiming combined losses of £5.7...
The Untold Plight Of North Korean Seafood Workers in China
The Maritime Executive
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In February 2023, Donggang Jinhui Foodstuff, a seafood-processing company in China, threw a party. It had been a successful year: a new plant had opened, and the company had doubled the amount of squid that it exported to the United States. The...
North Korean Hackers Stealthy Linux Malware Leaked Online
Cyber Security News
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August 18, 2025
In a significant breach of both cybersecurity defenses and secrecy, a trove of sensitive hacking tools and technical documentation, believed to originate from a North Korean threat actor, has recently been leaked online. The dump, revealed through...
(LEAD) S. Korea to devise 'phased denuclearization' strategy for N. Korea: FM Cho
Yonhap News Agency
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August 18, 2025
(ATTN: UPDATES with more remarks in last 3 paras) By Kim Seung-yeon SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Yonhap) -- Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Monday that South Korea will craft a "phased denuclearization" strategy for North Korea, moving in sequence from "freeze...
When the insider Is the adversary: North Korea’s remote work espionage campaign
TechRadar
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August 18, 2025
In a revelation that should concern every security leader, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) recently disclosed that over 300 companies, including tech giants and at least one defense contractor, unknowingly hired North Korean operatives posing as...
North Korea-China trade dips to $205M in July but remains far above 2024 levels
NK News
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August 18, 2025
North Korea’s trade with China jumped 32% year-on-year in July to $205.2 million, new customs data shows, maintaining double-digit growth throughout this year amid signs of improvement in both bilateral relations and cross-border commerce. The...
FM Cho to Prepare Denuclearization Strategy to Resolve N. Korean Nuclear Issue
KBS World
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August 18, 2025
Photo : YONHAP News Foreign Minister Cho Hyun has pledged to prepare a step-by-step denuclearization strategy to resolve North Korea’s nuclear issue and encourage the resumption of dialogue between the two Koreas, as well as between the North and...
N. Korea cigarette smuggling operations hit hard by China crackdown
Daily NK
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August 17, 2025
A sweeping Chinese crackdown on cigarette smuggling has brought North Korean companies’ lucrative tobacco operations to a virtual standstill, forcing them to scramble for alternative sources of foreign currency. A Daily NK source in China said...
Lee calls for comprehensive security and economic cooperation with U.S. in meeting with visiting senators
Korea JoungAng Daily
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August 18, 2025
Published: 18 Aug. 2025, 20:13 President Lee Jae Myung, front row center, poses for a photo after a meeting with U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, front row left, and Sen. Andy Kim, front row right, at the Yongsan presidential office in central Seoul on...
North Korea’s Lazarus Group accused of $23 million crypto theft from UK's Lykke
Cryptopolitan
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August 17, 2025
North Korea has been accused of stealing £17 million in Bitcoin from Lykke, a crypto trading platform registered in the UK. The hack forced the company to freeze trading, shut down operations, and later get liquidated in court. The UK’s Office of...
Lee's risky business
The Korea Times
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August 18, 2025
President Lee Jae Myung is moving incrementally but firmly to deescalate tensions with North Korea. This comes at a sensitive time ahead of his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba this weekend, just before his summit with U.S....
Korea, Britain to hold high-level economic talks on AI, biotech
Korea JoungAng Daily
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August 18, 2025
Published: 18 Aug. 2025, 14:59 Catherine West, parliamentary under secretary of state for the Indo-Pacific at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in Britain, is pictured in this photo provided by the British Embassy in Seoul. [BRITISH...
Google Docs, Upwork, and LinkedIn: Inside North Korean IT Workers’ Secret Crypto Operations
CryptoPotato
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August 17, 2025
Investigations by popular blockchain sleuth ZachXBT have uncovered extensive North Korean infiltration in the global cryptocurrency development job market. An unnamed source recently compromised a device belonging to a DPRK IT worker and provided...
North Korea’s Criminal Activities in Africa Keep the Cash Flowing to Pyongyang, Experts Say
The Epoch Times
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August 16, 2025
North Korean soldiers march during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Sept. 9, 2018. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images JOHANNESBURG—North Korean diplomats in Africa continue to run syndicates that are perpetrating crimes, including...
Truth behind North Korea’s Benidorm resort exposed with ‘slave brigades’ working 21-hour days & women sexually assaulted
The Scottish Sun
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August 16, 2025
IT’S the showpiece beach resort at the heart of Kim Jong-un’s plans for a holiday empire – but the “North Korean Benidorm” hides a dark secret. The Wonsan-Kalma resort reportedly got its nickname after dictator Kim sent a fact-finding mission to...
New data shows N. Korea rice prices hit highest level since 2009 currency reform
Daily NK
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August 14, 2025
North Korea’s market rice prices have once again reached a record high. According to Daily NK’s regular survey of market prices in North Korea, a kilogram of rice in a particular market in Pyongyang cost 15,200 North Korean won on Aug. 3, 10.1%...
Binance Identifies North Korea’s Growing Cyber Threat
Arabian Post
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August 16, 2025
Binance’s Chief Security Officer, Jimmy Su, has identified North Korean hacking groups as one of the most significant threats facing the cryptocurrency sector in 2025. As the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance has been at the...
The First Lee-Trump Summit: Addressing the North Korea Issue
The Diplomat
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August 15, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to hold his first summit with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in Washington on August 25. The meeting aims to finalize a trade deal following several months of intense negotiations between the United States...
The horrors of Gukurahundi and complicity of World Bank and IMF
Zimbabwe Independent
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To put it into perspective, Gukurahundi was characterised by inversion of human rights violations, including torture, disappearances, abductions, sexual molestation, rape, ethnic profiling and arbitrary arrests, detainment in concentration camps,...