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Russia, North Korea plan first regular bus route linking two countries by end of 2026

The new route is expected to facilitate passenger and cargo transportation between the two countries while also supporting North Korea's tourism industry.

2026.7.2

North Korean workers are seen working at a construction site near Pyongyang in this photo released by state-run media Rodong Sinmun on April 8. [NEWS1]

Video shows North Korean laborers working in Russia in violation of UN sanctions

Vladivostok city authorities in Russia released rare footage of North Korean laborers at a local construction site, showing actions that appears to violate United Nations sanctions, according to a report published Monday by NK News.

2025.4.15

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In this photo released on Tuesday by the Korean Workers' Party's official Rodong Sinmun, North Korean foreign minister Choe Son-hui, center, shakes hands with Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora at Pyongyang International Airport on Monday. [NEWS1]

North Korean foreign minister arrives in Russia

Russian state media on Tuesday reported that North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Sun-hui arrived in the eastern city of Vladivostok.

2024.10.29

In footage broadcast by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central Television, a North Korean short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) is fired from a long-range artillery unit in Sukchon, South Pyongan Province, in February. [YONHAP]

North may have sent ballistic and anti-tank missiles to Russia

North Korea may have provided Russia with short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) and anti-tank missiles for use in Ukraine, a senior South Korean military official said Thursday.

2023.11.2

In this April 2019 photo released by the regional government of Primorsky Kai in the Russian Far East, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un disembarks from a train at Khasan Station, the last railway stop on the Vladivostok branch of the Russian Far Eastern Railway before the North Korean-Russian border. The photo was taken during Kim's last overseas trip, which was to Vladivostok to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. [YONHAP]

Kim to meet with Putin in first overseas trip since 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will soon meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pyongyang and Moscow confirmed on Monday evening.

2023.9.11

In this photo released by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un talks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their last meeting in Vladivostok in April 2019. [YONHAP]

Kim might choose surprise route to Russia, South's chief spy says

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could travel to Russia by a “different route than expected” for his meeting with President Vladimir Putin, according to South Korea's spy agency Thursday.

2023.9.7

In this photo released by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their summit in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East in April 2019. U.S. officials believe Kim is expected to travel to the port city again between Sept. 10 and 13 to meet with Putin for talks on military cooperation. [YONHAP]

Kim, Putin expected to discuss weapons in Vladivostok

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is expected to visit Vladivostok to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks about supplying weapons for the latter’s war in Ukraine, U.S. officials have told the New York Times.

2023.9.5

In a photo taken by Kyodo News Agency, North Korean women push trolleys laden with baggage as they walk towards Terminal 2 of Beijing Capital International Airport on Tuesday, the first day that flights by the North's national carrier Air Koryo resumed between Pyongyang and Beijing. [KYODO/YONHAP]

North Koreans begin heading home after entry ban lifted

North Korea has lifted an entry ban imposed on its overseas nationals at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, state media reported Sunday.

2023.8.27

Russian media released this leaflet showing Kim Kum Sun, 43, and Park Kwon Ju, 15, who are the wife and son of a North Korean trade representative in Vladivostok, Russia. It reads, “On June 4, 2023, they left the North Korean Consulate which is on Nevskaya Str., 12. The situation is unknown so far.”

Missing wife, son of North's diplomat arrested in Russia

According to a report by Radio Free Asia, 43-year-old Kim Kum-sun and 15-year-old Park Kwon-ju were arrested on July 7 after boarding a plane from Yemelyanovo International Airport, located on the outskirt of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

2023.7.20

The first of the boats from Russia that requested permission to disembark passengers in Busan. The yacht's passengers were refused entry into the country on Oct. 1 and the boat departed Korea on Oct 11. [OFFICE OF REP. AN HO-YOUNG]

Russians on boats turned away from Korea

More than 20 Russians on four boats have been denied permission to enter Korea over the past three weeks, raising concerns that the country is becoming a destination for men fleeing Moscow's military mobilization.

2022.10.12