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South Korean President Says North Korea Missile Launch Tried to Cause Confusion Ahead of Elections
President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol made a statement today, April 2nd, claiming that the recent North Korean missile test of an Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile is an attempt to shake up South Korea ahead of the elections.
Yoon said this at a meeting with his cabinet in Sejong, reportedly hours after the missile was launched.
This test by North Korea...
North Korea Conducted Test of Hyper Glide Vehicle Armed Ballistic Missile
Missile Test
North Korea conducted a successful test launch of an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) armed with a Hyperglide Vehicle (HGV) near the capital of Pyongyang on April 2nd. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a statement that said the IRBM test occurred in the Pyongyang region at 6:53 a.m. local time and that the missile flew...
North Korea Plans to Launch Multiple Spy Satellites By End of Year
On April 1, North Korea announced that it has planned to launch at least 3 more spy satellites into Earth's orbit by the end of the year. North Korea put its first spy satellite in orbit in November of this year, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Pak Kyong-su, the vice director of the North Korean National Aerospace Technology Administration said...
Japanese Prime Minister Says Summit with North Korea will be “Fruitful”
A Proposed Relationship
Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida has expressed further interest in developing better relations with North Korea, describing it as "fruitful" despite North Korean officials rejecting recent advances to hold a summit between the nations' leaders and reportedly all contact.
"We will continue to address issues related to North Korea," Kishida said at a press conference yesterday, March...
Head of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Visits North Korea to Discuss Security Cooperation
The head of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, visited Pyongyang to discuss security cooperation with North Korea's Minister of State Security, Ri Chang-dae. The meeting was aimed at strengthening collaboration against espionage and hostile actions.
This visit followed South Korea's accusation of North Korea supplying Russia with thousands of containers of weapons to support its invasion of Ukraine....
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U.S. Identifies and Sanctions LockBit 3.0 Leader After Eleventh-Hour Data Dump
Update (1035 EST): The U.S. Department of Justice has formally charged Mr. Khoroshev. The announcement reads below:
"Dimitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, also known as LockBitSupp, LockBit, and putinkrab, 31, of Voronezh, Russia, is charged by a...
Polish Judge with Access to Classified Information Defects to Belarus
Defection Timeline
On May 6th, 2024, at approximately 0500 EST, Polish Judge Tomasz Szmydt of the Warsaw Voivodeship Administrative Court and the former head of the legal department of the National Council of Judges, gave...
Belarus Orders Inspection of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
As this publication reported in March 2023, the Russian Federation signed several Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with Belarus to host nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil. Yesterday, President Putin ordered a Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons (NSNW)...