South Korea has lodged an official protest with Russia over its new partnership agreement with North Korea and demanded an immediate halt to military cooperation with Pyongyang. Two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea, the foreign ministry on Friday summoned Moscow’s ambassador in Seoul, Georgy Zinoviev. Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hong Kyun […]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un attend a state reception in Pyongyang, North Korea June 19, 2024. (Vladimir Smirnov/Pool via Reuters) Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in almost 25 years this week as he seeks to strengthen international relationships amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. During a summit […]
North Korea has once again sent numerous balloons with plastic bags full of rubbish across the heavily militarized border between the two countries, South Korea said. Between Saturday and Sunday morning, around 330 “rubbish balloons” were released from North Korea, according to the General Staff in the capital Seoul. More than 80 of them had […]
North Korea’s latest satellite launch failed in a fireball in the sky on Monday evening. That comes after South Korean media reported that Russia was helping Pyongyang’s space program. Yonhap reported that a “large number” of Russian experts entered North Korea ahead of the launch. North Korea announced on Monday that its latest spy satellite launch […]
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean military said on Tuesday. North Korea launched what appeared to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) from the Pyongyang area at about 6:53 am (2153 GMT on Monday) towards the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, the general staff in Seoul (JCS) […]
A group of Russian tourists arrived in Pyongyang on Friday, AFP reporters saw, the first known foreign tour group to visit nuclear-armed North Korea since before pandemic-linked border closures. AFP video and photographs showed Russian tourists arriving at Pyongyang airport, wandering around the airport and smiling as they took pictures, with the arrivals board showing […]
Russia is “clearly ahead” of Ukraine in the supply of artillery ammunition, in particular because Moscow receives it from North Korea, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with Bild on Jan. 24. Read also: North Korea now aiding overstretched Russia, stepping into role as top weapons provider — intel head “No matter […]
Pyongyang officials said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit their North Korea at an “early date.” The North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement published by state media KCNA on Sunday that Putin intends to visit North Korea at an “early date”, saying that Putin “expressed deep thanks” to North Korean leader Kim Jong […]
STORY: A video provided by North Korea’s news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed a national flag-hoist ceremony on Sunday (December 31) attended by North Korean citizens to mark the new year. Many celebrated the new year by watching a firework display at midnight while others took selfies along streets decorated with lights. […]