6 Americans in Custody over Alleged Attempt to Send Bottles Filled with Rice, Dollar Bills to North Korea

Photo : Incheon Ganghwa Police Station Six Americans have been arrested after police say they attempted to release plastic bottles containing rice, Bibles and one dollar bills into the sea near Ganghwa Island in Incheon, off the west coast, in hopes they …

Video: Kim Jong Un, with his 'rarely seen' wife opens lavish beach resort in North Korea, it has 54 hotels, beer pubs, ...

North Korea's Kim Jong Un just opened the Wonsan-Kalma beach resort on June 24, in a major effort to boost tourism in the country. Earlier, slated to be opened in 2019, the beach resort will now open for domestic tourists from July 1. North Korea's …

North Korea restarts passenger services to Russia

‘No justice in North Korea’: Defectors at UN hearing testify about executions, mounting abuses by regime

Published: 27 Jun. 2025, 07:00 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Defector Maeng Hyo-shim speaks about her experience living and escaping North Korea during a public hearing hosted by the United Nations Human Rights Office in Seoul on Wednesday …

Six under investigation for attempting to send bottles of dollar bills and rice to North Korea

Published: 27 Jun. 2025, 09:46 Updated: 27 Jun. 2025, 12:37 A North Korean defector group puts rice and face masks into plastic bottles to send to the North on June 18, 2020. The image is not related to the story. [YONHAP]   Six people were detained by …

6 Americans detained in South Korea for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said. The Americans were apprehended on front …

What South Korea’s New President Means for Japan-North Korea Relations

The election of Lee Jae-myung as South Korea’s president has returned inter-Korean diplomacy to the regional spotlight. While Lee has yet to lay out a fully detailed roadmap, his early messaging points to a more cautious and conditional posture toward …

North Korea to Send More Infantry to Russia

North Korea plans to send more infantry to Russia to help Moscow fight its war against Ukraine, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said Thursday. The new deployment is expected to begin in July or August. North Korea also plans to send 25,000 …

North Korea just opened a beach resort for 20,000 people. But who will visit?

Seoul CNN  —  Kim Jong Un personally cut the ribbon of a new resort hailed by state media as a “national treasure-level tourism city” — a lavish seaside development set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and hardship …

North Korea may send more troops to Russia by August, South Korea says

North Korea may deploy more troops to Russia as early as July or August to aid in its war against Ukraine, with recruitment efforts already underway for another wave of military support to Moscow, South Korean intelligence told lawmakers Thursday. Last …