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Struggling Starmer to divert budgets to fund military

The move follows the resignation of the UK defense secretary and a growing row over insufficient funding for the armed forces ...

Israel accuses Belarusian president of anti-Semitism

Alexander Lukashenko has compared Israel’s conduct in the Palestinian enclave to the Holocaust ...

India’s defense production surges

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh attributes the 15% growth in financial year 2025-26 to policy...

North Korea quietly softens foreign content penalties for officials’ families

North Korea secretly issued a seven-point directive on May 28, 2026, setting out revised...

One year of Lee Jae-myung’s North Korea policy: real gains, serious gaps

June 4, 2026, marks the first anniversary of President Lee Jae-myung’s inauguration. Given that his government took office in the wake of a sudden...

North Koreans credit rice price stability, but quality and affordability remain concerns

More than five years after North Korea’s state-run grain stores were introduced, North Korean people say the outlets are operating more smoothly than in...

High school students in North Korea rack up bank debt via mobile phones, alarming parents

North Korean high school students are taking out bank loans through their mobile phones without their parents’ knowledge, spending the money on smartphone games...

Satellite analysis reveals Kim Jong Un’s hidden armored train stations

Kim Jong Un does not travel like other heads of state. He moves through North Korea aboard a “rolling fortress” — an armored train...

Solar power touted as fix for North Korea’s electricity crisis, but few can afford it

North Korean authorities are actively encouraging state institutions, enterprises, and neighborhood watch units to generate their own electricity through solar power as the country’s...

North Korea mobilizes factory workers for flood prevention push as rainy season approaches

North Korea is rushing to survey and reinforce flood-prone areas ahead of the summer rainy season, mobilizing factory and enterprise workers for large-scale repair...

Pyongyang’s postwar problem: What happens to North Korea when Russia no longer needs it?

Geopolitical dynamics are shifting rapidly as major powers intensify diplomatic coordination over the future shape of the international order. During the Victory Day parade...

North Korean soldiers in Ukraine face forced return — a civilian delegation went to fight for them

The sky over Kyiv hung heavy and gray during the days I spent in Ukraine’s capital. Standing before the outer wall of a prisoner...

North Korea’s donju hand over rice and cash to the state — and call it insurance

North Korean authorities are pressuring wealthy private traders known as donju — loosely translated as “masters of money,” referring to a class of entrepreneurs...

Mass livestock deaths at Kim Jong Un’s model farm trigger political crisis in Kangwon province

Hundreds of pigs, goats, and rabbits have died at a state breeding farm in North Korea’s Sepho district, and authorities have dispatched a high-level...

North Korea makes parents pay to feed students forced into rice planting labor

Parents across North Korea are being pressured to supply food for their children mobilized for rice planting season, bearing costs the state is unwilling...

Young North Koreans turn to flexible 8·3 labor as state wages fail to cover basic needs

Young workers in North Korea are increasingly using a practice known as “8·3 labor” — paying a fee to their state-assigned workplace in exchange...

North Korea uses Russia’s Victory Day to push war readiness doctrine

North Korea used its military’s participation in Russia’s Victory Day parade to conduct ideological indoctrination sessions targeting security officials, in what reflects Pyongyang’s effort...

North Korea grain prices fall across markets as imported supply increases

Grain prices at North Korean markets fell across the board in late May 2026, reversing a sustained period of increases, according to Daily NK’s...

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