Asia North Korea The country at the center of attention on UN sanctions in the last week: while China and Russia sent a proposal to ease them, Australia deploys warship to harden them
Asia North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un has vowed he will build an invincible army and considers the US responsible of regional tensions and acts of hostility towards the country; foreign journalists could not access the arms exhibition where the statement was made
Asia North Korea A civic group advocating national reunification has called for the lifting of South Korea's autonomous sanctions against the country and forthe resumption of operations at a now-closed joint industrial plant to pave the way for a thaw in cross-border ties
Asia North Korea State media are promoting President Kim Jong-un's "10 years of great revolutionary leadership" to celebrate his first decade in power in a series of new articles and programmes
Asia North Korea The tests of a new rail-based ballistic missile system continue; state media claim it was able to fire missiles from a train to hit a target 800 kilometers off the east coast
Asia North Korea The offer of 3 million Sinovac vaccines was rejected, though UNICEF believes they could be as useful as they were to other countries, despite eventual side effects
Asia North Korea More than 300.000 bottles of rice beer were exported to China in July, according to the latest trade data, which contrasts with the DPRK leader Kim Jong Un declaration of a "food crisis" and the call for emergency food distribution
Asia North Korea UNICEF could provide the country with equipment to store vaccines, as the UN Security Council extended a sanctions exemption for another 12 months allowing humanitarian assistance items to be sent by the organization
Asia North Korea The country plans to start operating within this month a disinfection complex near the border with China - now under construction - to resume cross-border trade
Asia North Korea Dialogue with South Korea has resumed after the two Presidents of the peninsula restored channels of communication
Asia North Korea Imports from China reach $12.3 million in June, increasing steadily but still well below pre-pandemic levels
Asia North Korea In an attempt to alleviate the serious food crisis in the country, two incoming shipments of humanitarian aid may have been detected delivering white parcels of goods to both Nampho and Haeju ports
Asia North Korea In the first half of 2021, Kim Jong-un has exchanged correspondence 12 times with President of Syria Assad, four times the frequency of Kim’s reported communications with China’s Xi Jinping during the same period