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Pro-North Korean activists arrested in Turkey ahead of NATO summit

Turkish police detained leaders of a Russia-based North Korea friendship group over an anti-NATO protest ahead of the al...

No location · Jul 06, 2026 · Wedgetail
Kim Jong Un watches cruise missile tests from new 5,000-ton destroyer

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a cruise missile test from a new 5,000-ton warship on Friday, as part of the fir...

No location · Jul 05, 2026 · Wedgetail
Taiwan Strait Tensions Rise

Reports of increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait

Taiwan · Jul 04, 2026 · Cyberstrategy
Sakhalin LNG Cargoes Pivot Further East

Shipping data shows the project's output almost entirely absorbed by North Asian buyers under new term deals.

Sakhalin, Russia · Jul 04, 2026 · Global Energy
Locked Shields Concludes with Record Participation in Tallinn

The live-fire defence exercise drew teams from forty nations, with this year's scenario centred on subsea cable disrupti...

Tallinn, Estonia · Jul 03, 2026 · Cyberstrategy
No reports of North Korean GPS jamming near maritime border, Seoul says

South Korea’s state-run radio frequency regulator said it has not detected North Korean GPS jamming near its western isl...

No location · Jul 03, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korean traders fall victim to Russian corn supply scam: records

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing NK News series exploring Russia-DPRK relations based on court document...

No location · Jul 03, 2026 · Wedgetail
NATO ponders how to defend Eastern Europe as America pulls back

German tanks are returning to a region they once razed

No location · Jul 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Google’s Continued Disruption of Malicious Residential Proxy Networks

Background Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google took action against the NetNut residential pro...

No location · Jul 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Seoul ministry prematurely renamed ‘defectors’ as migrants: human rights group

The South Korean government’s human rights watchdog alleged the Unification Ministry did not accurately take into accoun...

No location · Jul 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Russia busted North Korean peanut delivery in rare sanctions compliance: records

Russian authorities busted an imported shipment of North Korean peanuts in a rare case of compliance with U.N. sanctions...

No location · Jul 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Seoul holds live-fire drills near disputed sea border with North Korea

South Korean marines fired hundreds of rounds for a maritime live-fire exercise near the disputed western sea border wit...

No location · Jul 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
New Delhi Hosts Connectivity Corridor Signing

Transport ministers signed the next phase of the multi-modal corridor linking South Asia with the Gulf and Europe.

New Delhi, India · Jul 02, 2026
North Korea leads global crypto crime with theft of $643M in first half of 2026

North Korean cybercriminals have stolen $643 million so far this year, leading the way for global cryptocurrency theft a...

No location · Jul 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Russia trains North Korean experts to combat drug trafficking

Russia held a training session for North Korean anti-drug experts on combating narcotics trafficking this week, the Russ...

No location · Jul 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Djibouti Approves Further Basing Expansion on Its Coastline

A new logistics pier and expanded airfield apron add capacity to one of the world's densest concentrations of foreign ba...

Djibouti · Jul 01, 2026 · Geostrategy
Seoul, Kyiv move closer to transferring North Korean POWs to South Korea

South Korea and Ukraine have moved closer to transferring two North Korean soldiers captured while fighting for Russia, ...

No location · Jul 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Lee, Moon agree on need to continue pursuing dialogue with North Korea

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and former President Moon Jae-in agreed on the need to continue pursuing dialogue w...

No location · Jul 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Russia to launch bus route to North Korea by end of 2026: official

Russia plans to launch a bus service linking its Far East and North Korea by the end of the year, a Moscow foreign minis...

No location · Jul 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korea set to export more beer to Russia as allies’ commercial ties bolster

North Korea is set to expand its beer presence in Russia, with another brewery setting its sights on the ally’s lucrativ...

No location · Jul 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Risky Business #844 -- China closes AI vulndev gap as USA lifts Fable ban

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Anthr...

No location · Jul 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Destroyer deployment, missile tests, drone warfare and North Korea’s near misses

This week’s episode of the NK News Podcast looks at North Korea’s military modernization, from Kim Jong Un’s new 5,000-t...

No location · Jul 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Allies learn how to bully America

Can Taiwan use its chipmaking industry to strong-arm Donald Trump?

No location · Jun 30, 2026 · Wedgetail
This month in security with Tony Anscombe – June 2026 edition

Three-day patching deadlines, exposed fuel-tank systems, scams costing billions of dollars, and social media bans for ch...

No location · Jun 30, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korean illicit coal exports rising due to lax sanctions monitoring: report

North Korea has ramped up illicit coal exports on the back of its ties with China and Russia, a new report found, with i...

No location · Jun 30, 2026 · Wedgetail
Seoul says it tracked North Korea missile test despite no real-time alert

South Korea’s defense ministry on Monday sought to dispel speculation that the military failed to detect North Korea’s J...

No location · Jun 30, 2026 · Wedgetail
Jakarta Confirms Maritime Patrol Aircraft Order

Indonesia has confirmed an order for additional maritime patrol aircraft, citing surveillance gaps across its eastern ap...

Jakarta, Indonesia · Jun 30, 2026 · Wedgetail
Challenging China’s maritime militia

Executive summary Introduction The ‘First Island Chain’ is a site of intense geopolitical contestation. Along it, the Pe...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Bear Necessities: A Look at the Drivers, Dynamics, and Applications of the Pro-Russia Influence Ecosystem

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pr...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
A swift effort to boost the prospects for satellite servicing

A Pegasus XL is set this week to launch a mission to reboost NASA's Swift space telescope. Jeff Foust reports on the rap...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
Security and sustainability in space: a proposed cap-and-trade model for orbital debris mitigation

Orbital debris poses a growing risk to satellite operations with no clear solution for addressing it. Isha Gupta propose...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
The last days of the Persian Cats

The conflict in the Middle East may have destroyed the last of Iran's F-14 Tomcats that it bought from the US a half-cen...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
A new age for astronomy enabled by space-based solar power

One of the criticisms of space-based solar power (SPSB) systems is that the platforms would interfere with astronomy. Be...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
Talks with North Korea could restart fast after conditions shift: ex-Trump aide

The conditions for renewed U.S.-DPRK negotiations do not currently exist but could materialize quickly and within a year...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
Hong Kong Listings Rebound on Mainland Tech Offerings

IPO volumes reached a three-year high, though bankers note pricing remains sensitive to regulatory headlines.

Hong Kong · Jun 29, 2026 · Geofinance
US extends national emergency declaration over North Korea nuclear program

Washington has renewed a longstanding national emergency declaration toward North Korea for another year, citing the cou...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
US, ROK and Japan call for crackdown on cybercrime funding North Korea nukes

The U.S., South Korea and Japan urged stronger law enforcement cooperation and sanctions enforcement to tackle North Kor...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
Tuberculosis cases trigger mandatory treatment of North Korean workers in Russia

Editor’s note: This article is part of an NK News series exploring Russia-DPRK relations based on court documents. Russi...

No location · Jun 29, 2026 · Wedgetail
Wenchang Prepares Next Station Module for Launch

Ground crews have mated the new laboratory module to its carrier rocket, extending the station's research capacity.

Wenchang, China · Jun 27, 2026 · Astrostrategy
Panama Canal Restores Full Transit Slots After Water Reforms

New reservoir capacity has returned daily transits to pre-drought levels, easing a chronic chokepoint for global shippin...

Panama City, Panama · Jun 26, 2026

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