Pyongyang

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  Puppies, Kitten, Power: North Korea's Kim Jong Un Steals Spotlight At Pet Shop

  Images released by state media showed a visibly delighted Ju Ae watching cats with her father and petting one perched on a tower.

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  "Left With 1,000 Questions": YouTuber Enters North Korea Through Marathon, Shares Rare Glimpse

  Reflecting on the trip, he said he left the country with "1,000 questions" about life in North Korea.

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  Around 600 North Korean Soldiers Killed Fighting For Russia: Seoul Lawmaker

  Around 600 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine have been killed and thousands more wounded, a Seoul lawmaker said Wednesday, after Pyongyang officially confirmed deploying troops to aid Moscow.

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  North Korea 'Kim Jong Il' Birthday Tours To Open: Tour Agency

  A tour operator said it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, offering foreign tourists the first chance to visit since the pandemic.

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  North Korea Fires Suspected Short-Range Ballistic Missiles

  North Korea launched several suspected short-range ballistic missiles on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, a week after Pyongyang reported firing a new hypersonic missile system.

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  Kim Jong Un Meets Russia's Minister In Pyongyang As Ukraine War Deepens Ties

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Monday with Russia's natural resources minister in Pyongyang, state media reported, as visiting delegations from Moscow highlighted deepening ties amid the Ukraine war.

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  South Korea Sent Drones To Scatter Anti-North Korea Leaflets, Says Pyongyang

  North Korea accused South Korea on Friday of sending drones to scatter a "huge number" of anti-North leaflets over its capital Pyongyang, in what it called a political and military provocation that could lead to armed conflict.

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  North Korea Missile Explodes Midair After Launch, Claims S Korea

  North Korea test-fired what appeared to be a hypersonic missile off its east coast on Wednesday, but it exploded in midair, South Korea's military said.

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  Russian Delegation In North Korea In Fresh Signs Of Border Reopening

  Pyongyang celebrates the 75th anniversary of the country's founding day on September 9 and the nuclear-armed state has previously indicated it will hold a "militia parade" to mark the event.

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  North Korea Shows Off Drones And Ballistic Missiles At Night-Time Parade

  Nuclear-capable missiles and new attack drones were among the weapons displayed in a large military parade staged in Pyongyang for leader Kim Jong Un and visiting delegations from China and Russia, North Korean state media reported on Friday.

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  North Korea Says It Defused US-Made Korean War Bombs At Apartment Site

  The explosives, found at the housing construction site in the Hwasong area, were rusty but at risk of going off at any time, a report said.

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  "Fully Support": China As North Korea Reports First Official Covid Case

  China said Thursday it was ready to "fully support" North Korea in its pandemic prevention efforts after Pyongyang reported its first official Covid case and declared a national emergency.

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  Unreliable Lifts, Power Outages: North Korea Penthouses Are No Dream

  For people in many countries, living in a penthouse is the dream. In North Korea? Not so much.

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  North Korea Appears To Have Restarted Nuclear Reactor: UN Agency

  Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing reprocessing reactor in a "deeply troubling" development, the UN atomic agency has said, a possible sign Pyongyang is expanding its banned weapons programme.

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  North Korean Lecturers Say There Are Confirmed Coronavirus Cases: Report

  North Korean authorities told citizens in public lectures that there were confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the country as early as the end of March, in contrast to official Pyongyang claims that it has not had any confirmed cases, Radio Free Asia reported on late Friday.