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Direct commercial flights between Russia and North Korea begin amid closer ties
CBS News
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July 27, 2025
Updated on: July 27, 2025 / 3:44 PM EDT / AP China, Russia, Iran and North Korea tie Concerns over China, Russia, Iran and North Korea partnership 03:48 Russia on Sunday opened a regular air link between Moscow and Pyongyang, a move reflecting...
First direct commercial flight launched between Russia and North Korea
The Independent
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July 27, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Kim Jong-un vows North Korea will triumph in ‘Anti-American Struggel’
Khaama Press
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July 27, 2025
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un takes part in a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in this image released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 11, 2020. [Photo:...
First tourists visit North Korea’s ghostly ‘Benidorm’ resort where ‘minders’ follow visitors & phones are ‘bugged’
The U.S. Sun
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July 27, 2025
NORTH Korea has welcomed its first tourists to its ghostly new "Benidorm" beach resort. But the initial batch of visitors have reported that they are followed everywhere and their phones are likely bugged. 10 The newly built resort, called...
Arizona Woman Sentenced to 8 Years for Helping North Korean Spies to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Breitbart
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July 27, 2025
Christina Marie Chapman, a 50-year-old Arizona resident, has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for her role in a scheme that allowed North Korean spies to infiltrate 309 U.S. companies using false identities as IT workers. Bleeping...
Russia opens new direct flights to North Korea
Deutsche Welle
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July 27, 2025
The first direct passenger flight from Moscow to Pyongyang since the mid-1990s was set depart on Sunday evening. The eight-hour, 6,500-kilometer (4,040-mile) flight, operated by private Russian carrier Nordwind Airlines, was due to take off from...
Arizonan sentenced to 8 years in prison for helping North Korea exploit U.S. companies
Roswell Daily Record - New Mexico
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An Arizona woman was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for helping North Korea exploit hundreds of American companies, while generating more than $17 million for herself and the foreign government, the U.S. Department of Justice...
North Korean hackers ran US-based “laptop farm” from Arizona woman’s home
Ars Technica
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July 25, 2025
As the number of computers mounted, Chapman began stacking them on shelves around her residence, labeling them with sticky notes so she could remember which "worker" and company controlled which machine. When Chapman's home was searched, FBI...
North Korea's IT Worker Rampage Continues Amid DoJ Action
Dark Reading
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July 25, 2025
A "laptop farmer" in Arizona responsible for enabling North Korean IT worker infiltration into US companies is going to jail for eight and a half years, after raising $17 million in illicit funds for Kim Jong-Un’s regime. That news, however, is...
Russia launches first direct flights to North Korea
Daily Times
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July 27, 2025
Russia has begun operating direct passenger flights from Moscow to Pyongyang for the first time in nearly three decades, strengthening ties with North Korea amid rising global tensions. The move follows the restart of rail services between the two...
(LEAD) N. Korea's Kim vows not to forget Chinese war dead on armistice anniversary
Yonhap News Agency
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July 27, 2025
(ATTN: ADDS details throughout, photo) SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited the Friendship Tower in Pyongyang on the anniversary of the signing of an armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, pledging not to...
North Korea’s Illicit Funds Bolster Russia’s War in Ukraine, US Says
Kyiv Post
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July 25, 2025
WASHINGTON DC – The United States on Thursday launched a broad, multi-agency initiative targeting North Korea’s illicit financial networks, which funnels money to Pyongyang’s prohibited weapons programs and increasingly, to Russia’s war in...
N. Korea opens new beach resort hoping to remake eastern coast into tourism hub
The Korea Times
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July 25, 2025
North Korea unveiled a new beach in Tongchon County, roughly 50 kilometers south of the recently launched Wonsan-Kalma coastal resort, state media reported Thursday — a move analysts view as part of Pyongyang’s broader campaign to reinvent the...
25% tariff + penalty: How economists, experts reacted to Trump tariff on India
The Economic Times
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July 30, 2025
United States President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a 25% tariff will be imposed on goods imported from India starting August 1, with an unspecified penalty for buying Russian weapons and oil. The surprise announcement came a day...
Australia, India, Japan, US declare economic war on China’s rare earth empire
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 30, 2025
Washington, DC [US], July 30 (ANI): Foreign ministers from the Quad nations- Australia, India, Japan, and the United States- convened in Washington earlier this month and unveiled a robust strategy designed to counteract China's coercive influence...
North Korea’s tourism gamble: Kim unveils new resort to lure foreign visitors
NK Insider
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July 24, 2025
Kim Jong-un at the opening ceremony of the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Area on June 24 (Image: KCNA) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over the long-delayed grand opening of the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Area on June 24. After years of...
Arizona Woman Jailed For Orchestrating Massive North Korean IT Worker Fraud Scheme
The Free Press - Tampa - Florida
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July 26, 2025
Over Eight Years in Prison for “Laptop Farm” Operator Who Duped U.S. Companies Out of Millions An Arizona woman has been sentenced to over eight years in federal prison for her central role in a sophisticated scheme that enabled North Korean IT...
Arizona woman gets prison for helping North Korea
AZ Central - Arizona
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An Arizona woman was sentenced to over eight years in prison for aiding North Korea in exploiting over 300 U.S. companies. The scheme involved North Korean IT workers posing as U.S. residents to obtain remote jobs, generating over $17 million. The...
Arizona woman sentenced for aiding North Korea in U.S. IT job fraud scheme
Security Affairs
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July 26, 2025
Arizona woman sentenced for aiding North Korea in U.S. IT job fraud scheme Arizona woman gets 8 years for helping North Korea-linked threat actors to infiltrate 309 U.S. firms with fake IT jobs. Christina Marie Chapman (50) from Arizona, was...
Arizona Woman Sentenced for Aiding North Korean IT Workers in Cyber Operations
GBHackers
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July 26, 2025
Christina Marie Chapman, a 50-year-old Arizona woman, has been sentenced to 102 months in prison for her role in an elaborate fraud scheme that helped North Korean IT workers pose as U.S. citizens to obtain remote positions at over 300 American...