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North Korea cracks down on illegal housing sales as real estate market booms
Daily NK
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August 26, 2025
North Korean authorities have issued an internal directive targeting widespread illegal real estate transactions after discovering rampant home sales across the country. A source in North Hamgyong province told Daily NK recently that the...
'No Murders in North Korea, Either'—CNN's Cornish Smears Trump's DC Success
NewsBusters
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August 26, 2025
DC under Trump = Pyongyang on the Potomac! That was the absurd analogy that CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish tried to make on Tuesday's show. Reacting to the news that there have been no murders in the capital for 12 days running under Trump's...
South Korea Prosecutes Six U.S. Citizens for Sending Rice and Bibles Toward Oppressed North Koreans
The Gateway Pundit
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August 26, 2025
Credit: Staff Sgt. Ken Scar South Korea has formally referred six American citizens to prosecutors for the “crime” of sending rice, dollar bills, and Bibles to starving and oppressed North Koreans. On June 27, 2025, six Americans, aged between 20...
‘Big progress’ with North Korea possible if South Korea works with US, Trump says
Hankyoreh
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August 26, 2025
President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea speaks to US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Aug. 25, 2025. (Yonhap) Monday’s summit between South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and US President Donald Trump took place in a cordial atmosphere...
North Korea faces grain price surge as exchange rates soar amid economic turmoil
Daily NK
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August 26, 2025
The price of grains such as rice and corn is on the rise at North Korean marketplaces as higher exchange rates drive up the price of imported goods. North Korean consumers are being overwhelmed by a “price tsunami” that is inciting considerable...
My COVID experience in North Korea (Part 4)
NK Insider
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August 26, 2025
Image/Korean Central TV I will now share what it was like when I first learned about COVID, how we tried to get treatment, whether vaccines or medicine were available, and how we managed to obtain them. Most people naturally assume that when you...
Donald Trump Signals Willingness to Rekindle North Korea Talks as South Korean President Lee Jae Myung Visits White House
Alexa.ng
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In a high-stakes summit at the White House on Monday, August 25, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed openness to resuming direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, reigniting hopes for diplomacy aimed at reducing tensions on the...
N Korea ‘could produce 10-20 nukes per year’
Hurriyet Daily News
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SEOUL North Korea could soon produce 10 to 20 nuclear weapons per year, South Korea's dovish new president has said, as he called for efforts to lower tensions. North Korea has assembled an estimated 50 warheads and has fissile material to produce...
(News Focus) Lee, Trump align on shipbuilding cooperation, N. Korea dialogue, but thorny issues remain
Yonhap News Agency
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August 26, 2025
By Kim Eun-jung WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump presented their close alignment on efforts for shipbuilding industry cooperation and diplomacy to reengage with a recalcitrant North Korea...
Trump hosts South Korea's Lee, discussing North Korea, trade
Deutsche Welle
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August 25, 2025
Donald Trump met with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the White House on Monday, with the topic of North Korea at the forefront of discussions as the US president said he'd like to meet with dictator Kim Jong Un "this year." Trump 'looks...
North Korea’s glossy new surface: Apps, beaches and a fake Starbucks
The Straits Times
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August 26, 2025
SEOUL – North Korea is taking inspiration from the West. In Pyongyang, elites drink coffee at a fake Starbucks and pay by mobile phone. About 100 miles away on the east coast, a seaside resort that’s a pet project of the country’s leader Kim Jong...
North Korea Could Produce 10 to 20 Nuclear Weapons Per Year, South Korean President Says
Tasnim News Agency
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August 26, 2025
President Lee Jae Myung made this assessment on Monday while calling for efforts to lower tensions on the Korean peninsula, AFP reported. “An ICBM capable of reaching the United States is almost fully developed, and they are continuing to build...
N Korea’s expanding nuclear reach testing China and Russia
Asia Times
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August 26, 2025
A newly exposed North Korean missile base near the Chinese border underscores the former’s expanding nuclear reach and the uneasy fault lines in its ties with Russia, China, and the US. This month, the Center for Strategic and International...
N Korea's Expanding Nuclear Reach Testing China And Russia
MENAFN
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August 26, 2025
Latest stories Misunderstood Malthus: The original Dr Doom has lessons for today Fallen empire: Wahaha's illusions, lies and faux patriotism Trump's Central Asia gambit risks backfiring Bermudez Jr. and others note that these dispersed, concealed...
North Korea could produce 10-20 nukes per year – S. Korea leader
Inquirer
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August 26, 2025
US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung attend a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2025. Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON — North Korea could soon produce 10 to 20...
Trump Tower in North Korea Suggested as Kim Jong Un Meeting Teased
Newsweek
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August 26, 2025
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung floated the idea of building a Trump Tower in North Korea during a meeting at the White House this week, as U.S. President Donald Trump expressed interest in reviving direct talks with Kim Jong Un. The meeting...
Lee asks Trump to become 'peacemaker' on North Korea
Korea JoungAng Daily
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August 26, 2025
Published: 26 Aug. 2025, 19:25 Updated: 26 Aug. 2025, 19:42 Korean President Lee Jae Myung, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump chat in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Aug. 25. The two leaders held their first bilateral...
US President Donald Trump Says He Hopes To Meet North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un in 2025
Latestly
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August 26, 2025
Washington, August 26: US President Donald Trump said that he hopes to meet with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), later this year. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday during the outset of...
“South Korea looks forward to “construction of Trump tower in North Korea, [Trump] playing golf”: President Lee Jae Myung
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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August 26, 2025
Washington, DC [US], August 26 (ANI): President of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, on Tuesday asked for US President Donald Trump's intervention in establishing peace in North and South Korea. Lee Jae Myung jested with Trump- an avid golfer- that he...
North Korea could produce 10 to 20 nuclear weapons per year
The Sun Daily
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August 26, 2025
WASHINGTON: North Korea could soon produce 10 to 20 nuclear weapons per year according to South Korea’s dovish new president. President Lee Jae Myung made this assessment on Monday while calling for efforts to lower tensions on the Korean...