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INVESTIGATION: Kim Jong Un — nuclear program, new destroyer, and soldiers in Russia — Pyongyang escalates
On July 1, 2026, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) published its Korean Peninsula update, covering events through June 30,
COMMENTARY: 7,000 North Korean soldiers fallen for Putin — and two prisoners who want to go South
More than 7,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in the Kursk Oblast campaign between 2024 and 2025. This figure,
ANALYSIS: Russia engraves its North Korean soldiers into school textbooks — the propaganda of blood
In June 2026, Russia announced a revision of its single national history textbook — the book imposed in all Russian schools by personal decree…
FACT-CHECK: Kim Jong Un modernizes his arsenal — what the June 25, 2026 tests actually reveal
June 25, 2026 marked the 76th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, when North Korean forces invaded South Korea in 1950. Kim…
DECODING: The North Korea-Russia Bridge Inaugurates the Axis of Upheaval in Reinforced Concrete
On June 19, 2026, a bridge was inaugurated. A bridge over the Tumen River, on the border between North Korea and Russia. The first…
COLUMN: Seoul Opens Its Doors to North Korean POWs in Ukraine — A Historic Gesture Loaded With Meaning
On June 23, 2026, South Korea made a remarkable decision: it will receive all North Korean prisoners of war held in Ukraine who voluntarily…
OPEN LETTER: These North Korean soldiers who want to choose their own fate
On June 23, 2026, South Korea announced that it would accept all North Korean prisoners of war captured by Ukraine on Ukrainian territory, if…
COMMENTARY: Seoul ready to welcome North Korean soldiers who fought for Putin
On January 11, 2025, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the Security Service of Ukraine announced something unprecedented in the history of this conflict: two…
DECODING: Two years of the Moscow-Pyongyang treaty: the axis of authoritarians
On June 22, 2024, Vladimir Putin landed in Pyongyang and set his signature alongside Kim Jong-un's on a mutual defense treaty. Two years later,…