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Few customers but plenty of cash?: N Korean restaurants remain open in Laos

Restaurants should have closed and analysts say they suspect their only purpose is to ‘launder money’.

Al Jazeera

The Guardian view on ties between North Korea and Russia: bad news, and not only for Ukraine

Editorial: Kim Jong-un is reportedly planning to visit Vladimir Putin to discuss arms sales. The consequences could be widely felt

The Guardian - UK

Russia is turning to old ally North Korea to resupply its arsenal for the war in Ukraine

After a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine, Russia needs to replenish its supplies of ammunition for what could be a long war of attrition

The Independent UK

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North Korea’s Kim marks founding day with parade, promises to China, Russia

Paramilitary group the Worker-Peasant Red Guards – with 5.7 million members – featured prominently in parade.

Al Jazeera

Kim Jong Un hosts Chinese and Russian guests at a parade celebrating North Korea's 75th anniversary

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited visiting Chinese delegates and Russian artists to a paramilitary parade featuring rocket launchers pulled by trucks and tractors

The Independent UK

Putin’s reaching out to Kim Jong-un is a desperate move – and potentially a dangerous one

The reported meeting of the dictators reveals the threat of a return to old, cold war politics, says Sergey Radchenko of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

The Guardian - UK

Top Chinese officials to join North Korea founding celebrations

Group led by Vice Premier Liu Guozhong are the latest to travel to Pyongyang as it slowly opens to the outside world.

Al Jazeera

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North Korea would pay ‘price’ if it supplies Russia with weapons, US says

White House adviser says Russia-North Korea arms negotiations are ‘actively advancing’, warns Pyongyang against deal.

Al Jazeera

Why would North Korea’s Kim and Russia’s Putin want to meet?

Moscow seeking to quash Kyiv counteroffensive while Pyongyang is extending pace of missile testing.

Al Jazeera

Would North Korean weapons tilt the war Russia’s way?

The sale of North Korean weapons to Russia is likely to be high on the agenda when the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, travels to Moscow later this month to meet Vladimir Putin.

The Week

Kim Jong-un to hold weapons talks with Putin after ‘travelling to Russia in armoured train’

Visit highlights just how much the two leaders now need each other

The Independent UK

🔴 Live: Zelensky visits frontline troops near Bakhmut in east Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the war-battered town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and spoke to troops leading a counteroffensive against Russia, Ukraine said Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday the Kremlin declined to confirm a potential upcoming summit, which US officials expect to take place, between President Vladimir Putin and North Korean…

France 24

Ukraine war: two good reasons the world should worry about Russia’s arms purchases from North Korea

US national security council official John Kirby noted on August 30 that arms transfer negotiations between North Korea and Russia are “actively advancing” as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, seeks to feed his war machine.

The Conversation

Seoul's spy agency says Russia has likely proposed North Korea to join three-way drills with China

Russia has likely proposed that North Korea participate in three-way naval exercises with China, according to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing with the director of South Korea’s top spy agency

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N Korea stages ‘tactical nuclear attack drill’ in warning to enemies

Pyongyang says it carried out a nuclear attack drill with mock atomic warheads attached to two long-range missiles.

The Times of India

North Korea holds ‘scorched earth’ missile test to defy US

North Korea test-fired two suspected ballistic missiles about a week after it failed to put a spy satellite into orbit, in a show of defiance after the US sent a B-1B strategic bomber to airspace off the peninsula for military drills with South Korea.

Al Jazeera

North Korea simulates ‘tactical nuclear strike’ on South Korea

Pyongyang says its latest launch is response to US-South Korean military drills that included deployment of B1-B bomber.

WEKU

U.S. says Russia has made 'shameful' moves toward new North Korea arms deals

According to new U.S. intelligence, the potential agreement would allow North Korea to ship "significant quantities and multiple types" of weapons to Russia for deployment in Ukraine.

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US warns N Korea against selling weapons to Russia for Ukraine war

White House says Pyongyang should ‘cease its arms negotiations’ with Moscow amid escalating tensions with Washington.

The Independent UK

The US and allies clash with North Korea, China and Russia over failed satellite launch and tensions

The United States and its allies clashed with North Korea, Russia and China over Pyongyang’s failed attempts to launch a spy satellite and who is responsible for escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula

Al Jazeera

Another spy satellite failure for North Korea as rocket crashes into sea

Pyongyang has made putting a spy satellite into orbit a priority of its military modernisation programme.

The Independent UK

North Korean plane takes off from Beijing in a sign Pyongyang is opening borders post-pandemic

A North Korean commercial flight has taken off from Beijing in a sign that Pyongyang is its opening its borders again after almost three years of severe COVID-19 restrictions

Al Jazeera

North Korea could take military action around key summit: South Korea

Actions could include ICBM and spy satellite launch amid signs of activity at key launch sites.

The Times of India

Rare Russian VIP jet in North Korea spurs arms deal concern

An unusual sighting of a Russian military jet in North Korea is stoking concern that Kim Jong Un is selling Vladimir Putin weapons as ties strengthen between the sanctioned states.

The Times of India

North Korean leaderKimtours weapons factories

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toured the country\'s key weapons factories, including those producing artillery systems and launch vehicles for nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.

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