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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un inspects a nuclear submarine during a visit to a shipyard, in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on March 8, 2025. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA.

North Korea is about to join a dangerous club after unveiling first nuclear submarine

Channel: World World March 9, 2025 By Danny Rigg

North Korean soldier shouted ‘Kim Jong-un’ before blowing himself up on battlefield

Channel: UK UK January 31, 2025 By Josh Layton
Beach resort shown in December 2024.

Kim Jong-un unveils his 'Benidorm' beach resort - and 250 Brits already want to go

Channel: World World January 31, 2025 By Jasper King
Caption: Putin's forces 'burning faces of dead North Korean soldiers' Credit: 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade Polissia

North Korean soldier's final diary entries before dying in Putin's meat-grinder

Channel: UK UK January 9, 2025 By Josh Layton
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

Kim Jong-Un 'bans North Koreans from eating hot dog soup'

Channel: Weird Weird January 5, 2025 By Oliver Jones
This picture taken during the period of December 23 to 27, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 29, 2024 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending the enlarged meeting of Eleventh Plenary Meeting of Eighth Central Committee in Pyongyang. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT / ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE --- / (Photo by STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Images)

Kim Jong-un is 'sending couples to labour camps for getting divorced'

Channel: World World December 30, 2024 By Sam Courtney-Guy

Moment North Korean soldier sent into Putin's meat grinder peers up at hovering drone

Channel: UK UK December 18, 2024 By Josh Layton
Two red skyscrapers that look like Hwasong missiles, located along a road in Pyongyang, North Korea

Kim Jong-un's missile shaped skyscrapers have one major design flaw

Channel: World World November 25, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Kim Jong Un celebrates longest test of 'world's most powerful missile'

Channel: World World October 31, 2024 By Danny Rigg
This picture taken on October 2, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on October 4, 2024 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C) posing with troops during an inspection at a training base of the Korean People's Army's special operations forces in the western region, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said his forces would use nuclear weapons "without hesitation" if Pyongyang's territory was attacked by the South and its ally the United States, state media reported on October 4. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE --- / (Photo by STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Putin has called up North Korean troops to the Ukrainian frontline

Channel: World World October 17, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
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Why is North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un blowing up roads to South Korea?

Channel: World World October 15, 2024 By Danny Rigg
North Korean 'Benidorm' seen along the shoreline

North Korea's 'Benidorm' will soon open to tourists

Channel: World World October 4, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
Play Video A balloon is seen attached to an object (R) after it landed in a rice field in Seonwon-myeon, Ganghwa County, in the city of Incheon on June 10, 2024. North Korea sent hundreds more trash-carrying balloons over the border, Seoul's military said on June 10, after Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of further responses if the South keeps up its "psychological warfare". (Photo by YONHAP / AFP) / South Korea OUT / NO ARCHIVES - RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE (Photo by -/YONHAP/AFP via Getty Images)

Kim Jong-un sends rubbish tied to balloons into South Korea

Channel: World World September 24, 2024 By Katie Boyden
Play Video UNCLEARED GRABS: north korean girls being punished

Girls rounded up and publicly shamed for watching TV from South Korea

Channel: World World September 12, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Is this Kim Jong Un's latest favourite outfit for testing deadly weapons?

Channel: World World August 27, 2024 By Danny Rigg
Play Video Kim Jong-un's boat crashing into a tree

Kim Jong-un crashes into tree during trip to flooded North Korean region

Channel: World World August 1, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Kim Jong Un (R) and his daughter Kim Ju-ae (L)

How Kim Jong-un's daughter, 12, is lined-up to succeed him over growing health fears

Channel: World World July 29, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un ride an Aurus car in Pyongyang

What Putin gave Kim at old friends' reunion in North Korea

Channel: World World June 19, 2024 By Katie Boyden

Trump 'said Hitler did some good things' and 'wants to be a tough guy like him'

Channel: US US March 12, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
This picture taken on March 7, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on March 8, 2024 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) using binoculars during a joint forces artillery training exercise by the Korean People's Army (KPA) at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE --- / (Photo by STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Images)

Hipster Kim goes full Action Man during army training drill

Channel: World World March 11, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva