According to the Korean Central News Agency, North Korean “citizens abroad have been allowed to return home,” as it has decided to “adjust the anti-epidemic degree in reference to the eased worldwide pandemic situation.”

Source: https://indiatribune.com/after-over-3-years-covid-restrictions-n-korea-allows-citizens-abroad-to-return/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=after-over-3-years-covid-restrictions-n-korea-allows-citizens-abroad-to-return

A former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea said King may be used as a propaganda tool, but it was not clear how long North Korea would want to exploit his presence.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/no-word-from-north-korea-on-us-soldier-who-dashed-across-military-border/article_1c5b8f2b-bd8c-53aa-ae5a-6293a515aba7.html

Although the allies argue that the field exercises are intended for planning their response to a potential North Korean attack, Pyongyang consistently denounces them as a rehearsal for invasion and has in the past countered with missile launches.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-f16-fighter-jet-crashes-south-korea-b2461744.html

An added complication has been the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s statement of 2022, although the primary mission of his country’s nuclear arsenal is to deter an attack, he would use nuclear weapons to repel an attack if deterrence failed.

Source: http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2023/11/possibility-of-nuclear-escalation.html

As punishment, Danny was exiled to solitary confinement inside the North Korean spaceship.

Source: https://screenrant.com/for-all-mankind-season-4-danny-fate-death-worse-expected/

At akey party meeting presided over by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday, the North decided to take “important, practical” measures for the “offensive use” of war deterrents, according to the KCNA.

Source: https://www.canindia.com/n-korea-fired-2-strategic-cruise-missiles-from-submarine/

A total of 101 Chamsuri class boats were built in South Korea between the 1970s and 1980s by the Korea Tacoma, and Korea SB & Eng. Masan shipyards for defense purposes against North Korean amphibious incursions.

Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2023/12/09/uruguayan-navy-delegation-off-to-south-korea-to-bring-home-patrol-boat?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss

At this critical juncture when Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a prolonged war that the North Korean supreme leader considered to swiftly implement the declaration he made at the end of 2019.

Source: http://southasiajournal.net/is-it-ideology-or-expediency-that-provides-the-glue-for-the-emerging-russia-china-north-korean-axis-against-the-backdrop-of-the-ukrainian-war/

A TV screen shows an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with his daughter during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023.

Source: https://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/news/world_news/article_7e222b96-2beb-5ed5-8ebf-cb671393c29c.html

Bizarrely, a large portrait of Putin was seen mounted in a corridor walked by Kim and Shoigu together, the Russian leader's face seen looming over the pair from a wall opposite a second portrait of the North Korean dictator.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/galleries/article-12348511/Kim-Jong-shows-drones-ballistic-missiles-Sergei-Shoigu.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

But analysts predicted the announcement would lead to the return of North Korean students, workers and others who have had to stay abroad, mostly in and Russia, because of the pandemic.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/north-korea-ap-seoul-south-korea-beijing-b2400074.html

… Change Course and other North Korean sci-fi works can seem perplexing to people who have spent all their lives in the West.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2023/08/29/north-korean-science-fiction-in-2023.html

Essentially, there is little difference between an MEK child growing up at the group’s camp in Albania, and a North Korean child growing up in Kim Jong-un’s bubble.

Source: https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/where-are-the-mujahedin-al-khalq-children/

Feltman said he got no hint that North Korea was willing to denuclearize when he met with North Korean officials.

Source: https://www.newdelhitimes.com/experts-north-koreas-purge-of-top-official-shows-loyalty-may-be-insufficient/

FILE: This photograph offered by the North Korean authorities reveals a rocket check at North Korea’s Sohae Satellite Launching Ground on December 18, 2022.

Source: https://basquiatstrings.co.uk/north-koreas-missile-launch-puts-south-korea-and-japan-on-high-alert-bt-news

Filmmakers for “Red Dawn” altered the script to turn an invading Chinese army into North Korean troops.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/5/tinseltown-turncoats-how-hollywood-using-american-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

For North Korean children, there was not a single vaccine.

Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/10/restoring-north-koreas-childhood-immunization-program/

He is suspected of being involved in North Korean efforts to acquire spy satellites and nuclear-capable ballistic missile submarines.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1811989/Kim-Jong-Un-Russia-Vladimir-Putin-North-Korea

He’s being asked to translate English into English, like moving rocks from one pile to another in a North Korean prison.

Source: https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/ghostwriter-kristin-loberg-plagerism-steven-agus-sanjay-gupta/

In another sign of the North's post-pandemic opening, KCNA said Saturday that a team of North Korean athletes departed from Pyongyang to participate in the Asian Games starting next week in Hangzhou, China.

Source: https://www.startribune.com/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-inspects-russian-bombers-and-a-warship-on-a-visit-to-russias-far-east/600305080/