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    • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
      News in-depth
      Kim adopts trappings of royalty as he presents ‘princess’ to North Korea

      Ju Ae sparks speculation over successor after joining her father and generals at missile launch

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      North Korea fires suspected ICBM in latest missile barrage

      Washington fears Pyongyang about to conduct first nuclear test since 2017

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      South Korea launches military drills with the US as tensions mount

      Pyongyang has increased provocations while blaming fraught environment on Seoul and Washington

    • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
      News in-depthNorth Korea nuclear tensions
      ‘North Korea has already won’: US urged to abandon denuclearisation ‘farce’

      Washington and its allies have failed to arrest the development of Kim’s arsenal, analysts warn

    • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan

      Projectile’s 4,600km flight potentially puts US territory of Guam within Pyongyang’s range

    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      Kim Jong Un toughens nuclear policy to allow pre-emptive strikes

      North Korean leader vows to never give up arsenal or enter talks to decommission weapons

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      News in-depthNorth Korea
      North Korea seizes on Russian isolation to deepen ties with Putin

      Kim Jong Un cultivates relationship in effort to win support for his own strategic goals

    • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
      OutlookChristian Davies
      The shifting nature of North Korea’s weather forecasts is telling

      Broadcasting the meteorological truth gives state television credibility that can later be exploited

    • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
      North Korea
      North Korea reports new Covid cases after claiming ‘victory’ over pandemic

      Kim Jong Un hails ‘miracle’ of country’s handling of coronavirus even as economy suffers

    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      North Korea declares ‘victory’ over Covid

      Regime says only 74 people died from the virus and claims leader Kim Jong Un was ‘severely ill from high fever’

    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      News in-depthNorth Korea
      North Korea’s Covid crusade sheds light on Kim Jong Un’s propaganda strategy

      Leader has differentiated himself from predecessors by admitting flaws

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      Kim Jong Un says Korean peninsula on the ‘brink of war’

      North Korea’s leader threatens to ‘wipe out’ foes with nuclear weapons

    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      News in-depthNorth Korea
      Unvaccinated and unprepared, North Korea faces Covid catastrophe

      Pyongyang’s gamble on extreme isolation has unravelled as Omicron sweeps the country

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      North Korea
      North Korea reports first Covid-19 death from Omicron variant

      Fever has spread ‘explosively’ as experts warn about potential impact on unvaccinated nation

    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      North Korea
      Kim Jong Un orders lockdowns as North Korea confirms first Covid cases

      Isolated country has not vaccinated population, stoking worries about potential damage of outbreak

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      ‘Stay vigilant’: no let-up in North Korea’s two-year Covid lockout

      Pyongyang claims to have avoided a big outbreak but experts warn its luck will eventually run out

    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      North Korea preparing for first nuclear test since 2017, warn experts

      Satellite images at test site emerge as Kim Jong Un watches parade of sophisticated weaponry

    • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
      North Korea
      North Korea’s ‘nascent hacker underground’ playing ‘cat and mouse’ with regime

      Tech-savvy citizens are trying to circumvent restrictions but the penalty for being caught is severe

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      News in-depthNorth Korea nuclear tensions
      Kim could use nuclear arsenal to dominate Korean peninsula, warn experts

      Dictator’s weapons programme has grown beyond the ‘purely defensive’

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      Kim Jong Un tones down rhetoric in rare friendly exchange with South Korea

      North Korean leader praises President Moon Jae-in after weeks of rising tensions and missile tests

    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      Kim Jong Un’s sister condemns South Korean defence minister as a ‘lunatic’

      Dictator’s confidante warns Seoul that it faces ‘extermination’ in confrontation with Pyongyang

    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      North Korea claims successful launch of ‘monster missile’

      Pyongyang says it is ready to contain ‘US imperialists’ but some observers question validity of reports

    • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
      News in-depthNorth Korea nuclear tensions
      North Korea: ‘Kim doesn’t just want more missiles, he wants better ones’

      New generation of manoeuvrable weapons is raising alarm over an accelerated arms race

    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      Kim Jong Un ‘withered away’ on behalf of North Koreans, says state TV

      Leader’s dramatic weight loss sparks speculation about future of secretive state’s leadership

    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      North Korea nuclear tensions
      North Korean missile tests expose world’s struggle to curb military development

      Kim Jong Un sees opportunity with global powers distracted by other foreign policy issues, analysts say

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