MOSCOW: North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui arrived in Russia on Tuesday (Oct 29) for an official visit after South Korea and the United States claimed Pyongyang had sent thousands of troops to train in Russia. Choe flew into the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, TASS state newsContinue Reading
Tokyo: On Friday ( October 25 ), Japan stated that it was monitoring with” serious concern” indications that North Korean troops might be stationed in Russia before moving to Ukraine. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi stated that the Chinese government is “watching the implementation of warriors by North Korea toContinue Reading
As he addressed leaders of the BRICS group of emerging economies, including his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday ( October 23 ), China’s president Xi Jinping stated that there must be” no escalation of fighting” in Ukraine. The largest political conference held in Russia since Putin’s order to sendContinue Reading
South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador on Monday ( Oct 21 ) to criticise Pyongyang’s decision to send thousands of soldiers to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine, the foreign ministry said, calling for their immediate withdrawal. In Pyongyang’s primary for deployment overseas, about 1, 500 North Korean specific forces soldiersContinue Reading
A new sanctions monitoring team led by the United States was criticized by North Korea’s top diplomat on Sunday ( October 20 ), with the president edifying as “unlawful and illegitimate” and admonstrating that the nations involved in the group would be “dearly priced.” Following Russia’s veto of a sectionContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea’s determination to build thousands of soldiers to Ukraine’s back lines cements Pyongyang’s controversial military alliance with Moscow, experts told AFP, and pulls Russia deeper into Korean peninsula protection. About 1, 500 North Korean special forces soldiers are already in Russia acclimatising, likely to head to the frontContinue Reading
South Korea’s spy agency reported on Friday ( Oct. 18 ) that it has sent 1, 500 special forces troops to Russia’s Far East for training and acclimatization at local military bases. They will likely be deployed for combat in the conflict in Ukraine. The National Intelligence Service of SouthContinue Reading
Around 1.4 million young people, including students and youth league officials, reportedly joined or returned to the army this week, according to state media in North Korea on Wednesday ( October 16 ). According to the KCNA report, the younger people are determined to engage in a” spiritual warfare ofContinue Reading
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, on Friday ( October 11 ), as a pro-poor nation’s message to nations with nuclear weapons not to use them. Testimony to the only two atomic bombs always to be used inContinue Reading
The award-giving organization announced on Thursday ( October 10 ) that South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” The Swedish Academy gave the prize, which is worth 11 millionContinue Reading