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US Sanctions N. Korean Cyber Actor over IT Worker Scheme
KBS World
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July 9, 2025
Photo : YONHAP News The United States has sanctioned a North Korean cyber operative for illegal activities related to the Andariel hacking group, which is associated with the North Korean regime. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign...
U.S. Sanctions North Korean IT Workers Over 'Cyber Espionage,' Crypto Thefts
CoinDesk
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The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog added North Korean national Song Kum Hyok to its "Specially Designated Nationals" list, alleging he is "a malicious cyber actor" tied to a North Korean hacking group. The Office of Foreign Assets...
Cash-strapped N. Korean diplomats reveal financial struggles through airport luggage
Daily NK
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July 8, 2025
The carry-on luggage of North Korean diplomats and trade officials departing from Pyongyang International Airport for Russia has become a topic of public conversation. According to a Daily NK source in Pyongyang recently, North Korean diplomats...
Treasury sanctions key player behind North Korean IT worker scheme
The Record
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July 8, 2025
A senior official within North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) was sanctioned by the United States on Tuesday for his role in facilitating the IT worker scheme in China and Russia. Song Kum Hyok, a cyber actor associated with North...
U.S. sanctions North Korean hacker for crimes benefitting Kim Jong Un's arms programs
United Press International (UPI)
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July 8 (UPI) -- The federal government has sanctioned alleged North Korean hacker Song Kum Hyok for illegal activities related to his participation in the Andariel hacking group. Song has participated in malicious cyber activities, including an...
US sanctions North Korea cyber actor for IT worker scheme to generate revenue for Kim regime
The Korea Times
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July 8, 2025
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned a North Korean cyber actor accused of facilitating a scheme under which Pyongyang uses its overseas information technology (IT) workers to generate revenue for the recalcitrant...
US authorities unmask North Korean IT worker schemes and their American accomplices
CIO Dive
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July 8, 2025
The Department of Justice announced a series of actions on June 30 as part of an investigation into the North Korean government’s deployment of its citizens abroad to pose as IT workers and illicitly earn money for the regime. Newly unsealed...
Treasury slaps sanctions on people, companies tied to North Korean IT worker schemes
CyberScoop
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July 8, 2025
The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced it has sanctioned a North Korean man participating in the widespread IT worker scheme, as well as others in a Russia-based IT worker operation that allegedly benefits the government of North Korea. It’s...
Kim Jong Un's North Korean dystopian water park as locals appear 'forced to have fun'
Daily Star
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July 8, 2025
North Koreans have been pictured “enjoying” a dip in the sea and going on water park rides at a newly inaugurated colossal beach resort. Despite prohibiting foreign tourists from entering, the Wonsan-Kalma eastern coastal tourist zone, which North...
Ruling party aims to put bill banning anti-Pyongyang leaflets to vote in July
Yonhap News Agency
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July 9, 2025
By Yi Wonju SEOUL, July 9 (Yonhap) -- The ruling Democratic Party (DP) said Wednesday it aims to put a revised bill banning anti-Pyongyang leaflet campaigns to a vote during this month's parliamentary session. The move comes as President Lee Jae...
A quiet wish from North Korean defector youths
Korea JoungAng Daily
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July 8, 2025
Published: 09 Jul. 2025, 00:05 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Cho Myung-sook The author is the principal of the Yeo Myung School. July 14 marks the second annual North Korean Defectors’ Day, a commemoration enacted in January of...
North Korea: Kim Jong-Un Visits Mausoleum To Mark 31St Anniversary Of Founder's Death
MENAFN
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July 8, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Seoul, July 8 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday visited a mausoleum for late state founder Kim Il-sung to mark the 31st anniversary of his death, the state media reported. Kim visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun...
Six N. Korean fishermen to be repatriated despite silence from Pyongyang
Hankyoreh
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July 8, 2025
Seoul hopes good-will gesture will ease friction, elicit positive response A wooden vessel from North Korea turned up at the port of Samcheok, in Gangwon Province, on June 15, 2019. (Yonhap) The South Korean government has decided to repatriate...
South Korea a Significant User of the Panama Canal, Flies New Submarine Hunters To Counter North Korea’s Navy
Newsroom Panama
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July 8, 2025
Panama and South Korea have maintained diplomatic relations since 1962, with both countries establishing embassies in each other’s capitals. Bilateral ties have strengthened over the years, including through high-level exchanges and trade...
North Korea’s Second Chance?
Foreign Affairs
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July 8, 2025
Since coming to office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump has waded into several geopolitical crises, including Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s wars in Gaza and Iran. Thus far, however, he has said comparatively little about the growing...
N. Korea launches luxury magpie-branded cigarette gift sets
Daily NK
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July 8, 2025
North Korea has released a luxury cigarette gift set branded with the magpie, the country’s national bird. After positioning 7.27 cigarettes—Kim Jong Un’s personal favorite—as a luxury product, North Korea is now applying the same strategy to the...
N. Korean agents punished over Russia corruption
Daily NK
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July 8, 2025
Two North Korean state security agents, Han Kwang Jin and Song Myong Nam, have been demoted and transferred after being recalled from Russia amid corruption allegations. According to Daily NK sources in North Korea, Han was suddenly recalled to...
North Korea leader Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun
Sada Elbalad
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July 8, 2025
Tue 08 Jul 2025 | 08:49 AM North Korean leader Kim Jong Un All the people across the DPRK are filled with ardent yearning and boundless reverence for north Korean President Kim Il Sung, founding father of socialist Korea and great sage of the...
North Korean leader Kim visits mausoleum on 31st anniversary of founder's death
NHK
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North Korean media have reported that the country's leader Kim Jong Un visited the mausoleum of his late grandfather and state founder Kim Il Sung on the 31st anniversary of his death. North Korea's ruling Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun...
Additional North Korean troop deployment, Kim mourns in public and beachgoers
NK News
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July 8, 2025
Seoul last week said it cannot confirm a CNN report that North Korea plans to send 30,000 additional soldiers to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, amid conflicting intelligence assessments. While Ukraine’s military intelligence suggested the...