41 h. ago Kim Jong Un tourist paradise with mega waterpark – but only Russians can visit

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been making strides to market the country as a state-of-the-art destination for intrepid tourists – but it's not looking like everything is going to plan

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42 h. ago North Korea BANS foreign tourists from its glitzy new beach resort

The abrupt reversal comes only days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited the site on July 12, where he was hosted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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55 h. ago North Korea bans foreign tourists to newly opened beach resort

North Korea says it is suspending the entry of foreign tourists to a recently opened mega beach resort, a move that dims prospects for the complex

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65 h. ago Russia's new top ally in Ukraine conflict is 'more important than China or Iran'

North Korea has emerged as a key ally to Russia in the wake of Vladimir Putin's failed invasion of Ukraine, with Kim Jong-Un throwing his full support behind the Kremlin

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6 d. ago Kim Jong Un's military has 'hugely improved' and is now a much greater threat to South Korea and US troops based there after six months of fighting against Ukraine

North Korea has used the conflict as a testing ground to refine its combat strategies, according to an intelligence assessment shared with The Times .

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7 d. ago WW3 fears spike as North Korea reaffirms support for Russia's war in Ukraine

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Putin his “unconditional support” on his Ukraine bloodbath

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7 d. ago Kim renews North Korea’s support for Russia over Ukraine, state media reports

Kim Jong Un vows full backing for Russia’s war in Ukraine as Lavrov visits Pyongyang to cement growing military alliance

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7 d. ago Russia's Sergei Lavrov hugs Kim Jong Un as he thanks North Korea for sending troops to Ukraine war

Relations between North Korea and Russia have flourished in recent years with Kim Jong Un suppling troops and ammunition to Ukraine's frontlines in return for economic and military help.

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9 d. ago WW3 fears as South Korea, US and Japan hold military drills to warn Putin and Kim Jong

Top South Korean, U.S. and Japanese military officers have urged North Korea to halt unlawful activities as the three nations flew advanced warplanes for a joint exercise in a show of force

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1 week ago Defector ‘tortured’ in North Korean detention facility to sue Kim Jong Un

Choi Min Kyung says she suffered physical and sexual abuse in North Korean detention after being repatriated from China

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1 week ago Russian foreign minister to visit North Korea this week in latest sign of expanding ties

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to North Korea in the latest sign of the countries’ deepening ties during Russia’s war in Ukraine

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1 week ago South Korea sends back North Koreans who drifted on wooden boats across border

North Koreans sent back across their sea border after ‘failed efforts to contact Pyongyang’

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1 week ago South Korea sends back North Koreans who drifted on wooden boats across sea border

North Koreans sent back across their sea border after ‘failed efforts to contact Pyongyang’

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1 week ago Kim Jong Un's North Korean dystopian water park as locals appear 'forced to have fun'

Hundreds of North Koreans were picture seemingly enjoying themselves in the Wonsan-Kalma eastern coastal tourist zone's new beach, water park and amusement area

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1 week ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says US, Europe deals will increase drone production

Married couple die in Russian strike against Kostyantynivka; Ukraine on agenda as Macron makes state visit to UK. What we know on day 1,230Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones on Sunday, throwing Russian air travel into disarray, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Ukrainian deals with western partners allowing Kyiv to scale up production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Six Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow, said its mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, while another two were reported outside Russia’s second largest city, St Petersburg. Rosaviatsiya, Russia’s civil aviation authority, reported temporary airport closures in the two cities and other regional centres and said dozens of flights had been delayed.In Ukraine on Sunday, Russian drones injured three civilians in Kyiv and at least two in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, located in the north-east, officials said. A Russian attack involving Shahed drones also targeted port infrastructure in Mykolaiv in central...

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2 w. ago North Korea's 'concentration camp' revealed as new satellite images show grim reality

On Kim Jong-un's isolated land is the Jongori Detention Camp, where prisoners are killed by firing squad, and is housed in the most remote mountain region of the country

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2 w. ago Kim Jong Un shown mourning North Korean soldiers he sent to die in Putin’s war in Ukraine

Rare footage reveals Kim weeping over coffins as Pyongyang confirms battlefield deaths in Russia’s war

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2 w. ago Kim Jong Un cries mourning North Korean soldiers killed in Putin’s war against Ukraine

Kim Jong Un shed a tear during a public tribute to fallen North Korean soldiers who died whilst fighting alongside the Russian army in Ukraine.

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russia claims to have seized all of Luhansk region; Kim Jong

If confirmed Luhansk would be first Ukrainian region to be fully occupied by Moscow; pictures show North Korean leader at repatriation of soldiers apparently killed in Ukraine. What we know on day 1,224Moscow’s forces have seized all of Luhansk – one of four regions Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in September 2022 despite not fully controlling a single one – Leonid Pasechnik, a Russia-appointed official there, said on Monday. If confirmed, that would make Luhansk the first Ukrainian region to be fully occupied by Russia after more than three years of war. There was no immediate comment from Kyiv on Pasechnik’s claim. In remarks to Russia’s state TV Channel One that aired Monday evening, Pasechnik said he had received a report “literally two days ago” saying that “100%” of the region was now under the control of Russian forces.Russian forces have captured a village in the Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk for the first time in their three-year offensive, Russian state media a...

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3 w. ago Inside North Korea’s vast new beach resort as Kim Jong Un bets on tourism

The Wonsan-Kalma beach resort is North Korea's biggest tourist site. Russia said Thursday it will send its first group of tourists to the site in July

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