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2025 saw North Korea push Kim Jong Un’s daughter into ‘successor spotlight’

Jaewoo Park, Radio Free Asia

TOPSHOT - Fireworks light up the sky as spectators react during the "Long Live the Workers' Party of Korea" performance to celebrate the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on October 9, 2025. (Photo by KIM Won Jin / AFP) (Photo by KIM WON JIN/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea celebrated its soldiers who fought with Russia in Ukraine

By Radio Free Asia

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Suicide rates in North Korea are so high, Kim Jong Un had to issue a special order

Kim Jieun, Radio Free Asia

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North Korea showed off its new intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade

By Radio Free Asia

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North Korea has declared war on decadent, Western-style love

By Blake Stilwell

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Adopting North Korean basketball rules would be a literal game-changer for the NBA

By Blake Stilwell

Korea vs Japan in the 1590s: Admiral Yi’s Turtle Ships

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North Korea just launched a new nuclear missile submarine

Kim Jong Un is going to Russia to set up an arms deal for Russia’s Ukraine war

North Korean Hacker

North Korean hackers targeted Russia’s top missile maker

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This letter and Purple Heart haunted Truman

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A US Army private crossed into North Korea to escape disciplinary action

By Miguel Ortiz

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Everyday North Koreans are attacking police officers in the streets across the country

Why North Korea declared its high suicide rates as an ‘act of treason’

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A guide to the Battle of Chosin Reservoir

By Jessica Evans

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What do you know about the second Korean War?

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North Korea’s new ‘Radioactive Tsunami’ is an underwater drone to target naval fleets

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North Korea and Israel have been engaged in a decades-long shadow war

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The US defector to North Korea no one ever hears about

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North Korea has the world’s largest navy – but it’s still a joke