North Korea recently demolished facilities near major roads connecting it to South Korea, Seoul’s defense ministry confirmed on Monday, while local media reported that the DPRK also installed landmines near three inter-Korean crossings. The destruction of the facilities near the Gyeongui road on the west and the Donghae road near the east coast follows the
Tottenham host Arsenal in a crucial north London derby on Sunday, with the Gunners chasing the league title. Ange Postecoglou's Spurs side are looking to derail their bitter rivals' bid for a first league title since 2004. Tottenham are looking to torpedo Arsenal's title chances but which Spurs side will turn up in this massive derby? Listen to the
The South Korean government raised the terror alert levels at five overseas missions on Thursday, citing the possibility of attacks by the North.The Foreign Ministry in Seoul ordered elevated threat monitoring at its embassies in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh; Laos' capital, Vientiane; and Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. Warnings were also sent to its consulates in Vladivostok in Russia's Far East and in Shenyang in northeastern China.The diplomatic missions were warned after a government...
The findings of the UN sanctions monitoring team indicate that North Korea has violated arms sanctions by supplying “Hwasong-11” missiles to Russia. Reuters reported on Monday, April 29th, citing the results of the UN sanctions monitors’ review presented to the Security Council’s committee, that remnants of North Korean ballistic missiles have been seen in Ukraine. […]
Commercial satellite imagery shows renewed construction at Uiju Airfield, North Korea’s largest import quarantine facility located northeast of Sinuiju City.…
Escapee elected to National Assembly talks about flight to the South, political goals.
An estimated 168 billion gallons of wastewater—or produced water—is generated annually by the Permian Basin fracking industry, according to a 2022 report by the Texas Produced Water Consortium. The major waste stream has proved both difficult and costly to treat because of the chemical complexity of the water.
China says it firmly opposes foreign military alliances targeting it and stoking bloc confrontation.
North Korean animators may have helped create popular cartoons for Amazon Prime Video, Max and other streaming services. Researchers from the Washington-based 38 North project allegedly discovered a misconfigured cloud server on a North Korean IP address that contained thousands of animation files, as reported by Wired. US sanctions prohibit commercial activity with North Korean entities, due to human rights abuses and the advancement of its nuclear weapons program. The server included...
All of North Korea’s known missile activities during the first four months of 2024 have involved theater strike systems. This…
Scientists are harnessing cells to make new types of materials that can grow, repair themselves and even respond to their environment. These solid "engineered living materials" are made by embedding cells in an inanimate matrix that's formed in a desired shape. Now, researchers report in ACS Central Science that they have 3D printed a bioink containing plant cells that were then genetically modified, producing programmable materials. Applications could someday include biomanufacturing and...
UN sanctions monitors conclude that the 'debris recovered from a missile that landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on 2 January 2024 derives from a DPRK Hwasong-11 series missile.' North Korea is formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).