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Nov 30, 2025 - North Korean and Russian athletes squared off in friendly soccer and ice hockey matches this week, highlighting the countries’ deepening sports diplomacy...

Nov 27, 2025 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected the construction of a mega greenhouse farm on the border with China for the sixth time on Wednesday, where he said a...

Nov 25, 2025 - “Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with and columns by North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few...

Jan 25, 2024 - Our team of expert journalists at NK News produces leading analysis on all major developments in North Korea.

Nov 27, 2025 - A new North Korean restaurant serving traditional fare like cold buckwheat noodles has opened its doors in central Moscow, just a short walk from the Kremlin,...

Nov 3, 2025 - Anton Sokolin is the data correspondent at NK News. He previously worked at Reuters, TASS and the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (KOTRA).

Nov 12, 2025 - Jooheon Kim is a Correspondent at NK News. He previously worked at Aju News Corporation where he covered South Korea’s economy and tech sectors, K-pop...

Welcome to the North Korea News podcast, produced exclusively for NK News and hosted each week by Jacco Zwetsloot in Seoul.

On January 20, 2021, Markus Garlauskas, the former US National Intelligence Officer for North Korea and nonresident senior fellow with the Asia Security...

Nov 28, 2025 - Russian has become a mandatory subject in North Korean schools, according to a top Russian official, in the latest example of the two countries expanding their...