As North Korean troops dispatched to Russia become increasingly involved in combat with Ukraine, China is upping its pressure on North Korea with crackdowns on North Korean workers.
North Korea Uses Neutral Tone
North Korea has renamed its DMZ entry permits and expanded travel permits for citizens of the capital, Daily NK has learned.
(Reuters) - Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.
Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea’s main opposition Democratic Party, met with the acting United States ambassador to South Korea on Jan. 22, stressing the importance of bolstering the South Korea-U.
The loose arrangement of hostile powers could pose a series of conundrums for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.
With the fate of suspended South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol hanging in the balance, the country has also been left facing an uncertain future as it battles through the resulting political turmoil.
During the Cold War, there was a time when China would have been paranoid about Russia and North Korea conspiring behind its back. Those worries, however, are now relics of a bygone era characterized by a radically different balance of power among this authoritarian triangle.
Set in a high-end shopping mall in central Pyongyang, the fake Ikea outlet comes complete with a huge collection of furniture - and Ikea's exact logo on its entrance
A chance for Ukraine and Trump to set Putin back and drive a wedge between Pyongyang and Moscow.
Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.
TOKYO — Japan will expand an unprecedented military aid program, the first of its kind since World War II, to help the armed forces of like-minded countries like the Philippines deter threats to the rule of law in the Indo-Pacific,