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North Korea reduced trade deficit but remained reliant on China in 2024: Report
NK News
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July 28, 2025
North Korea reduced its trade deficit with China in 2024 but remained highly dependent on its biggest economic partner, according to a new report, which found that Pyongyang also expanded ties with foreign partners as diverse as Argentina,...
North Korean hackers ran a 'laptop farm' out of Arizona woman's home
PC World
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In 1925, an innocuous American house might’ve hidden a speakeasy, slinging illegal booze to thirsty patrons during Prohibition. In 2020, you might’ve found the same house hiding dozens of Bitcoin miners. But in 2025, an American house hides a data...
Miranda Devine: Trump nailed the biggest trade deal in American history and proved everyone wrong – again!
New York Post
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July 31, 2025
When President Trump nailed the biggest deal in history on Sunday with the European Union on trade, you could almost hear the sound of egg splattering all over the faces of experts across the Atlantic. Economists, Democrats and Never-Trumpers have...
(3rd LD) N. Korea says ties between N.K.-U.S. leaders 'not bad' but rejects denuclearization talks
Yonhap News Agency
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July 29, 2025
(ATTN: UPDATES with more details in 14th para; ADDS byline) By Lee Minji and Park Boram SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Tuesday personal ties between the leaders of the North and the United...
N. Korea’s Kim vows not to forget Chinese war dead on armistice anniv
Inquirer
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July 28, 2025
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un lays a flower wreath in front of the Friendship Tower in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the signing of the armistice ending the Korean War, in this photo published on Sunday. (Yonhap) SEOUL —...
‘Nukes or Nothing’: North Korea Mocks Trump's Peace Dream, Shuts Door On Denuclearisation Talks
The Times of India
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Dying Fan Gifts Sanjay Dutt ₹72 Cr | His Unexpected Reaction Breaks The Internet Veteran actor Sanjay Dutt revealed that a Mumbai-based die-hard admirer, Nisha Patil, left him property worth ₹72 crore in her will—despite having no personal...
N. Korea's exports hit 5-year high in 2024: data
Yonhap News Agency
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July 28, 2025
SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's exports climbed to the highest amount in five years last year, data showed Monday. North Korea exported a total of US$360.4 million worth of goods in 2024, up 10.9 percent from a year earlier, according to...
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Radio silence: Trump’s fund cuts gift Kim Jong-un a tighter grip on North Korea’s ‘mind apartheid’
Firstpost
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July 29, 2025
In the world’s hermit kingdom, the rulers appear anything but hermits — the face allegations of relentlessly hounding their hapless citizens in a, what many describe as, barbaric fashion, crushing human rights as a hippopotamus crushes a...
Kim Yo Jong spurns Seoul’s overtures, and US targets North Korean laptop farms
NK News
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July 29, 2025
North Korea broke its relative silence about the new South Korean administration of Lee Jae-myung on Monday, with the DPRK leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong dismissing the president’s peace overtures and attacking Seoul’s alliance with the U.S. NK News...
Shoigu’s Pyongyang Visits Suggest Turbulence in Putin’s Security Council
The Jamestown Foundation
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Executive Summary: Russian President Vladimir Putin tasked Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu with strengthening the military-political alliance between Russia and the North Korea, sparking rumors of his potential appointment...
U.S. Sanctions North Korean Andariel Hacker Behind Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme
The Cyber Post
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July 29, 2025
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday sanctioned a member of a North Korean hacking group called Andariel for their role in the infamous remote information technology (IT) worker scheme. The...
(2nd LD) N. Korea says ties between N.K.-U.S. leaders 'not bad' but rejects denuclearization talks
Yonhap News Agency
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July 29, 2025
(ATTN: UPDATES with more details in paras 10-13,16; ADDS photo) By Lee Minji SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Tuesday personal ties between the leaders of the North and the United States are...
North Korea says it has ‘no interest’ in dialogue with South Korea
Al Jazeera
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July 28, 2025
North Korean leader’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, dismisses Seoul’s outreach efforts under new president. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister has rejected the possibility of dialogue with South Korea amid Seoul’s outreach efforts...
World News | North Korea Says Kim-Trump Ties 'not Bad' but It's Not Giving Up Its Nuclear Weapons
Latestly
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July 29, 2025
Seoul, Jul 29 (AP) The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed the US's intent to resume diplomacy on North Korea's denuclearisation, as she urged Washington to accept her country as a nuclear weapons state and find a new...
North Korean Leader's Sister Says Not Interested In Any Proposal From Seoul, Won't Sit Down For Dialogue
MENAFN
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July 27, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Seoul, July 28 (IANS) North Korea is not interested in any policy or proposal from South Korea and will not sit down with Seoul for talks, the powerful sister of state leader Kim Jong-un said Monday.Kim Yo-jong, vice department...
Russia's resources minister visits N. Korea on 1st direct Moscow-Pyongyang flight
Yonhap News Agency
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July 29, 2025
SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- Russia's natural resources minister has visited North Korea for a meeting on trade and technology cooperation, traveling aboard the first flight of the resumed direct air route between Moscow and Pyongyang, state media...
Russian Minister Visits N. Korea on First Direct Flight from Moscow to Pyongyang
KBS World
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July 29, 2025
Photo : Yonhap News / KCNA Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov visited North Korea aboard the first direct flight to Pyongyang from Moscow in 33 years and held talks with the North’s external economic relations...
North Korea rejects Seoul proposals, says no talks will be held
Telengana Today
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July 28, 2025
Kim Yo-jong has said North Korea is not interested in any proposal from Seoul, rejecting talks with South Korea and criticising President Lee Jae Myung's approach as confrontational and unchanged. Published Date - 28 July 2025, 07:51 AM Seoul:...
World News | Kim Jong Un's Sister Dismisses US Intent to Resume Diplomacy on North Korea Denuclearization
Latestly
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July 28, 2025
Seoul, Jul 29 (AP) The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed US intent to resume diplomacy on North Korea's denuclearization, saying Tuesday the North flatly opposes any attempt to deny its position as a nuclear weapons...
US Woman Gets Eight Years for Part in $17m North Korean Scheme
Infosecurity Magazine
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July 28, 2025
An Arizonan woman has been handed a jail term of over eight years for helping North Korean IT workers defraud over 300 US companies. Christina Chapman 50, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, had pleaded guilty in February 2025 to conspiracy to commit...