On a weekend morning in September, a 30-year-old South Korean man surnamed Oh traveled to a border island and launched a fixed-wing drone over the water, toward North Korea. By his own account, he did...

Young people in South Korea and Japan are becoming characters in their own stories with AI fiction apps but experts warn of addiction

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Editor’s note: This article is the second in a two-part investigation into the Korea Foundation’s operations in the U.S. Part one covered the organization’s funding for U.S. think tanks. A congression...

phoenix am 28.02.2025: Staatskrise in Südkorea. Die Bevölkerung fürchtet um die Zukunft ihrer Demokratie. Spiegelt sich im politischen Konflikt ein globaler Machtkampf wider zwischen den USA, Xi Jinpi...

Attorneys for North Korea expert Sue Mi Terry have filed pretrial motions seeking to dismiss the U.S. government’s case alleging that she worked for South Korean spies, arguing that the prosecution is...

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week, amid the usual rallying cries against immigration and “woke” culture, one group of prominent U.S. and South Korean conservative speake...

Trump administration splits with allies on holding Moscow responsible for war

The U.S. Treasury Department has frozen funds of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), NK News has learned, imperiling groups working to improve North Korean human rights. The freeze is the late...

North Korean authorities have demolished and completely rebuilt at least two political prisons and expanded a third, new high-resolution satellite imagery reveals, providing evidence that the DPRK is ...

A family photo reportedly found on the body of a North Korean soldier killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine features a popular South Korean meme of a laughing dog, a sign of the extent to which f...

The storming of the Seoul Western District Court by far-right protesters over the weekend, sparked by the formal arrest of former President Yoon Suk-yeol, highlights South Korea’s escalating political...

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A 64-year-old Swedish national passed away last month despite tireless efforts by Korean authorities and organizations to provide medical assistance, highlighting gaps in welfare support for foreign n...

North Korea has opened up the northeastern border city of Rason to tourists from China and most other countries, according to a travel agency, marking the first time that non-Russian travelers can vis...

North Korea’s newest luxury mall is now home to an IKEA store, a video uploaded to China social media suggests, giving wealthy residents of Pyongyang the opportunity to purchase the Swedish giant’s flat-pack furniture for their own homes. But the store…

Law enforcement’s unprecedented attempt to arrest President Yoon Suk-yeol has exposed deep fractures in South Korea’s security apparatus, testing the rule of law and raised urgent questions about poli...

At dawn in a provincial town, a young North Korean woman slips out of bed and prepares for another day of working the fields with her neighbors. The morning weather forecast plays on the radio as she ...

The smoke rose from the North Korean Embassy for days after the Assad regime fell, the smell of burning documents or other materials wafting through the neighborhood in northeast Damascus. Foreign gua...