North Korea

| NORTH KOREA – RUSSIA

North Korea’s strongman Kim Jong-un is strengthening his regime’s military and economic ties with Moscow, sending more manpower to Russia. A year after Moscow and Pyongyang signed a defence treaty, North Korean losses in the Ukraine war are up.

 


Pope Francis has approved the promulgation of the decree on the “offering of life” of Fr Emil Joseph Kapaun, a priest from Kansas who died in 1951 in a North Korean POW camp.

| 25/02/2025
| NORTH KOREA – VATICAN

A report by the Environmental Justice Foundation denounces the extreme conditions inflicted on North Koreans working on Chinese ships. The research is based on interviews with workers of other nationalities, especially Indonesians and Filipinos. The boats involved are also accused of illegal fishing.

| 24/02/2025
| NORTH KOREA - CHINA

The Seoul authorities denounce the ‘inhuman’ destruction of a place with a strong symbolic value. A gesture that continues the policy of shelving any prospect of reunification between North and South. Over the years, the facility on Mount Kumgang had hosted reunions between relatives separated by the conflict for decades: the last meeting was in 2018.

| 13/02/2025
| KOREA

Some North Korean families are paying up to US 0 to keep their boys from deployment in the Ukraine-Russia war. The certificate means a one-year deferral, but checks could be carried out every three months. Ukraine reports that some 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in combat so far.

| 28/01/2025
| NORTH KOREA

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency investigating the martial law attempt continues to meet resistance from the president’s security detail and lawyers. Yoon has refused to be questioned three times. Meanwhile, the parliamentary committee charged with impeachment (dominated by the opposition) is trying to speed up the process so that it can reach the Constitutional Court.

| 07/01/2025
| SOUTH KOREA
by Alessandra De Poli

What are the repercussions in Asia of the deployment of Kim Jong-Un's troops in Ukraine? Prof Andrew Yeo told AsiaNews that geopolitical lines are being redrawn. Ukraine may be encouraging North Korean soldiers to desert, but support for Ukraine in South Korea is a divisive issue. For its part, China is trying to avoid being identified as part of the Russia-North Korea bloc.

 

| 06/11/2024
| KOREA – RUSSIA
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