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16 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 21, 2026.
Kim Yo Jong called a six-nation 'Pacific Vanguard' naval exercise a 'frantic military move' and said there will be 'never ever change in the course of intensifying the nuclear war deterrence.' U.S. Pacific Command said the launches pose no immediate threat.
A Chengdu-led team combed 17 years of data from stations in China and South Korea and found the mountain's own weight is slowly squeezing the shattered rock into faults. The tremors could make it harder to tell old bomb damage from a new test.
Zelensky said allied interceptor deliveries have collapsed across the whole first half of 2026, blamed the Middle East war, and would not rule out that the squeeze is meant to push Kyiv toward a deal.
Ukrainian military intelligence says roughly 90 North Korean personnel will be embedded in Russia's 112th Missile Brigade with six launchers. Ukraine's thinnest defensive layer is exactly the one those weapons are built to beat.
Vladimir Putin thanked Pyongyang for backing his war in Ukraine as Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui met Sergey Lavrov, a visit with no obvious occasion that has stirred summit speculation.
A Seoul court found Yoon and his former defense minister conspired to fly drones over Pyongyang to manufacture a pretext for his failed 2024 martial-law decree.
The Chinese leader's rare state visit to Pyongyang reasserted Beijing's role as North Korea's most important partner, even as Kim Jong Un deepens ties with Russia.
The North Korean leader used COVID-19 lockdowns to ruthlessly tighten control, then energized the economy by leveraging Russia's war in Ukraine.
WatchThe Chinese leader was greeted by a 21-gun salute and a military band as he opened a two-day state visit, calling for stronger 'strategic coordination' with Pyongyang as North Korea's bond with Moscow deepens.
The North Korean leader used COVID-19 lockdowns to tighten control while energizing the economy through strategic partnerships with Russia's war effort.
The Chinese leader will meet Kim Jong Un on June 8-9 in his first overseas trip of 2026, as Beijing moves to reassert its influence over an ally drawing ever closer to Russia.
WatchState media showed the North Korean leader touring a hall of centrifuges as he declared the country has more than doubled its capacity to produce weapons-grade material in five years.
Spanish investigators believe the Ursa Major may have been struck by a Barracuda supercavitating torpedo — a weapon possessed by only a handful of elite militaries, including the United States — in what could be a rare Western intervention to halt nuclear technology transfers to Pyongyang.
North Korea said its largest warship will be commissioned in mid-June and announced 155-mm self-propelled gun-howitzers with a range of more than 60 kilometers, designed to strike South Korea's capital region.
Pyongyang deployed its Hwasong-11 nuclear-capable ballistic missile fitted with cluster-munition warheads that can destroy 17 acres per strike, testing an array of new weapons while global attention was fixed on the US-Iran ceasefire.
The National Intelligence Service has upgraded its assessment of Kim Ju Ae from 'likely heir' to 'fair to view as successor,' citing elevated propaganda language and her growing presence at military events.