News Briefing

Briefing January 9 ~ January 13

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026

In a strongly worded statement, North Korea denounced what it claims was a “serious violation of sovereignty” after shooting down a drone which it said...

Reporting the unreachable: why we need to keep paying attention

Weapons modernization and anti-U.S. strategic calculations amid the Russia–Ukraine war

Briefing January 9 ~ January 13

The low status and sorry life of scientists in North Korea

“I defended the fatherland, but it did not defend me.”

What Venezuela taught me about North Korea

Propaganda refers to the country as “Kim Jong-un’s Korea”… Growing possibility of public backlash

Defectors no longer able to send money home amid crackdown on Chinese mobile phone use

Pressure on all citizens to supply fertilizer creates a clandestine trade

Briefing January 9 ~ January 13

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