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Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes chiefs after censorship row

Senior staff defended the military newspaper’s editorial independence after reporting on problems facing US forces during the Iran war ...

EU nations push windfall tax on oil giants over Iran war profits – media

Six member states reportedly want energy companies benefiting from soaring prices to help ease...

Dutch watchdog fines Uber nearly $1 billion

The US ride-hailing company allegedly broke EU laws by using a fully automated system...

Supreme Court lets Trump go on with White House ballroom project amid pending lawsuit

The administrative order issued by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. is only temporary ...

Swiss media interviews Deputy FM

Deputy Foreign Minister François Chih-chung Wu stated that Taiwan is committed to maintenance of the Taiwan Strait status quo and avoidance of tension escalation. Wu...

Taiwan, France expand industrial, technological cooperation

Taiwan and France are preparing to take on more industrial research and development projects this year as the government continues to help local firms...

North Korea’s new spy agency name evokes South Korea’s Cold War secret police

North Korea’s renaming of its feared political police agency is sending a chill through the population, with many people drawing uncomfortable comparisons to a...

North Korea-China trade grows, but new customs rules shut out small traders

China’s customs authorities have sharply tightened export requirements for North Korea-bound goods since the second half of last year. The new rules are squeezing...

How North Korea built its African empire of stone and steel

For decades, North Korea has generated foreign currency by designing and constructing commemorative monuments across Africa — statues, museums, and public memorials built for...

Beyond hereditary rule: The remaking of Kim Jong Un’s system

North Korea analysts have long viewed Kim Jong Un’s government through a familiar lens: a third-generation hereditary dictatorship sustained by the same tools of...

North Korea courts Chinese private investors for Pyongyang commercial complex

North Korea is pushing to develop a large commercial complex in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district and is actively courting Chinese private investors to fund it. According...

North Korea shifts education costs onto the public with new funding law

North Korea has formalized a system requiring institutions, enterprises, and ordinary citizens to financially support state education through a newly obtained law, shifting the...

Built by Pyongyang: The North Korean company behind Africa’s most iconic monuments

North Korea has long relied on unconventional means to earn hard currency in the face of sweeping international sanctions that have effectively shut off...

N. Korea arrests official for quoting Kim Il Sung in Kim Jong Un session

A provincial party official in North Hamgyong province was seized by State Information Bureau agents the moment he stepped down from the lectern at...

North Korean elite school student expelled for tutoring during school holiday

A student at an elite provincial school in North Hamgyong province has been forcibly transferred to an ordinary school after a neighbor reported the...

North Korea threatens criminal punishment for diverting factory goods to informal markets

The party committee of Songchon county, South Pyongan province, has ordered a complete halt to the flow of state-produced goods into informal markets, threatening...

Air China’s Beijing-Pyongyang resumption stirs economic hopes inside North Korea

North Korea resumed its first direct Air China flights from Beijing in six years on March 30, and the news has spread quickly inside...

North Korea fuel prices surge 20% as Iran war squeezes oil supply

North Korea’s market prices have surged for the second consecutive month, with fuel costs leading the way as gasoline and diesel prices each jumped...

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