6 h. 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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10 h. 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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20 h. ago US to send more weapons to support Ukraine in its war with Russia as Trump's patience with Putin wears thin

President Trump said the US was on the verge of heeding Volodymyr Zelensky 's request for more firepower to stop the war.

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28 h. 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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62 h. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. ago Zelenskyy urges west to hit Russia with sanctions after huge attack on Kyiv

Ukrainian president wants allies to speed up action against Putin after two killed in second night of major strikesVolodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up imposing new sanctions on Russia after another huge wave of strikes on his country’s capital killed two people and left more wounded.“Sanctions must be imposed faster, and pressure on Russia must be strong enough that they truly feel the consequences of their terror,” the Ukrainian president said on social media. Ukraine’s air defence force said Moscow sent 400 drones and 18 missiles across the country in the early hours. Continue reading...

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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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5 d. 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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7 d. ago 'I've visited every country on Earth and my favourite was the very first one'

Nicolás Pasquali, 44, who describes himself as the "first Argentinean to visit every country in the world", has finally managed to tick off North Korea from his list after eight years of travel

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1 week ago North Korea’s new resort, fires in Crete, Diogo Jota tributes: photos of the day – Wednesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world• Warning: graphic content Continue reading...

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1 week 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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1 week ago North Korea to send up to 30,000 troops to bolster Russia’s forces, Ukraine says

North Korea is already helping Russia as Putin's forces struggle against determined Ukrainian resistance, and the dictatorship is now said to be about to triple its numbers

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1 week ago North Koreans swim at huge new beach resort touted as boost for country’s tourism

The first group of Russian tourists to the Wonsan-Kalma resort will depart on July 7 for a eight-day trip

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1 week ago Royal Navy warship sent to put pressure on North Korea amid rising tensions in region

HMS Spey has conducted operations in the Sea of Japan alongside the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force

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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week ago Ukraine war briefing: Russia claims to have seized all of Luhansk region and first village in Dnipropetrovsk

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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