Putin Receives North Korea’s Top Diplomat As Zelenskyy Pushes Long-Range Missile Development

Russian President Vladimir Putin received North Korea's top diplomat at the Kremlin on October 27 as Russian forces continued their push in eastern Ukraine, penetrating a key city amid fierce fighting. North Korean media said Foreign Minister Choe...

In South Korea, Trump secures a trade deal — and a glittering crown

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, second left, gestures as he poses for a photo with state leaders including President Donald Trump, from left, Vietnamese President Luong Cuong, New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Canadian Prime...

Trump and South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung Agree on Major Trade and Investment Deal

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, met with the President of South Korea, Lee Jae-man, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on October 29, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn...

Trump and South Korea finalize trade deal as tariffs on auto exports are set to decrease

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung are finalizing the details of their trade deal on Wednesday. “We made our deal, pretty much finalized it,” Trump said at a dinner with Lee. Trump and South Korea...

North Korean Chollima Actors Added BeaverTail and OtterCookie to its Arsenal

Famous Chollima, a DPRK-aligned threat group, has evolved its arsenal, with BeaverTail and OtterCookie increasingly merging functionalities to steal credentials and cryptocurrency via deceptive job offers. A recent campaign involved a trojanized...

Trump says trade agreement with South Korea ‘pretty much finalized’

Open this photo in gallery:U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and receives a gifted gold crown in Gyeongju, South Korea. The two leaders hammered out details of a trade deal this week.Mark...

Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers

Everybody’s got their favorite newspaper or magazine—the one they turn to first thing in the morning, breakfast fork in hand, for a look at what’s going on in the world. Noam Chomsky, famously, prefers the Financial Times, calling it “more open,...

N. Korean FM Choe to attend security conference in Belarus this week: report

SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui will attend a Eurasian security conference in Belarus this week, a Russian news report said Monday, citing the Belarusian foreign ministry. The Minsk International Conference on...

Trump Pushes Trade Wins in South Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump began the final leg of his Asia trip in South Korea on Wednesday, expressing optimism about advancing an unresolved tariff deal with President Lee Jae Myung and reaching a trade truce with China’s Xi Jinping. Trump...

North Korea stresses self-reliance as key to development ahead of Trump's visit to South Korea

Published: 27 Oct. 2025, 17:59 This photo, published by the Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 26, shows Choe Ryong-hae, center, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, inspecting various projects,...

With a new leader – and Trump in town – Japanese families whose loved ones were abducted by North Korea have fresh hope

(CNN) — For the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents decades ago, this week is perhaps the best shot they’ve had in years of substantive progress. Not only does Japan have a new prime minister, but US President Donald...

AP Business SummaryBrief at 9:06 a.m. EDT

Missing government data unlikely to sway Federal Reserve from rate-cut path WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is expected to cut its short-term rate Wednesday for the second time this year despite an increasingly cloudy view of the economy it...

N. Korea stresses self-reliance as key to development ahead of Trump's visit to S. Korea

SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) —- North Korea on Monday stressed self-reliance as the only path to national development and prosperity amid attention over whether leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump may meet on the occasion of this week's...

The City That Armed a War: How Hong Kong Became Russia’s Sanctions Escape Hatch

by Our Economic Affairs Editor When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western governments unleashed a barrage of unprecedented sanctions aimed at strangling Moscow’s war economy. From semiconductor exports to banking restrictions,...

U.S. official says no evidence North Korea has mastered hypersonics, notes progress in its ICBM reentry tech

Published: 28 Oct. 2025, 08:50 This photo from the Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 23 shows North Korea's missile launch the previous day. The agency said two hypersonic projectiles were launched from the Ryokpho District in Pyongyang in a...

S Korea announces lowering of tariffs as part of new US trade deal

Koh Ewe,Singapore and Kathryn Armstrong,London ShareSave The meeting comes as both countries are still trying to reach a trade deal The US and South Korea have reached a broad trade deal, both countries have said following talks between their...

Trump announces trade breakthrough with South Korea on Asia trip; to meet with Xi on Oct 30

The deal lets Seoul split US$350 billion pledge, pay US$200 billion cash in instalments [GYEONGJU, South Korea] Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung finalised details of their fraught trade deal at a summit in South Korea on...

Trump and China’s Xi meet face-to-face to try to solve months of trade tensions. Follow live updates.

Xi says US and China should be ‘partners and friends’ despite ‘frictions’ — 10:25 p.m. By the Associated Press The Chinese leader spoke for longer than Trump in his opening remarks, saying “it feels very warm seeing you again because it’s been...

Trump says US-South Korea trade deal ‘pretty much finalised’ after hours of talks

Donald Trump said the U.S. has “pretty much finalised” the details of a fraught trade deal with South Korea as he marked the last pitstop on his whirlwind Asia tour Wednesday. The US President confirmed the highly anticipated deal and almost...

Trump announces trade breakthrough with South Korea on Asia trip

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Jihoon Lee and Ju-min Park GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) -Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung finalised details of their fraught trade deal at a summit in South Korea on Wednesday, and the U.S. president...