The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

The launch came as Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya visited South Korea for a series of meetings with top officials, with the Asian neighbours seeking to boost bilateral ties before Trump returns to office next week.

In today’s newsletter: Kyiv’s interrogation footage of captured North Korean soldiers leads to questions about what it might do with the soldiers – and what the PoWs might do for them

South Korea’s military says North Korea has test-fired at least one unidentified projectile toward its eastern waters in its second launch event of 2025

The last written notes of a North Korean soldier suggests the troops are being used as bait by Russian forces

North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine face challenges in modern warfare. Concerns over military capabilities and threat to South Korea.

Neither Russia nor North Korea has claimed the soldiers as their own yet, while South Korea could accept them as defectors

Around 300 North Korean soldiers have been killed and 2,700 wounded while fighting in Russia's war against Ukraine, a South Korean lawmaker said Monday, citing information from Seoul's spy agency.

Kyiv claims to have captured two North Koreans fighting in Russia’s Kursk region

South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers that two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region haven’t expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea