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According to South Korean news outlets, around 30 middle schoolers were publicly shot last week in North Korea for watching South Korean shows.

North Korea executed 30 teenagers for watching South Korean dramas: reports

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South Korean officials revealed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un regained weight and appears to be experiencing obesity-related health problems like high blood pressure and diabetes. South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on July 29 that Kim’s doctors are seeking new medicines abroad to treat him. The North Korean...

South Korean Officials Fear North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un May Die From Obesity-Related Health Problems

In a significant revelation, South Korean media reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s daughter, Ju Ae, is being groomed to succeed her father. This announcement follows over a year of speculation regarding the line of succession in the reclusive nation. Kim Jong Un’s health and succession plans...

Kim Jong Un’s daughter, Ju Ae, reportedly being groomed for leadership

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The International Olympic Committee announced on Thursday that North Korea's athletes will be the only athletes in Paris not to receive complimentary Samsung smartphones.

North Korean Olympic athletes denied gifts from Samsung that every other team got

North Korea claims it is sending 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers toward its border with South Korea, in the latest bellicose declaration by leader Kim Jong Un against its neighbor.

North Korea claims it’s sending 250 new missile launchers toward the South Korean border

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Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, warned of "gruesome" consequences for South Korean defectors who send balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets and other items across the border.

North Korean leader’s sister warns of ‘gruesome’ price for leaflets, balloons from South

Monroe Township, NJ

An Ohio father read from the Bible, told his children he loved them, and called his own father – cryptically telling him that his eldest boy would be “the hardest one” – before he murdered his three young sons in a horror attack at the family home.

Ohio dad read from the Bible and told his three young sons they were the ‘best boys ever’. Then he killed them

The Independent

 North Korea’s much-speculated seventh nuclear test could happen around the US presidential elections in November, South Korea’s defence minister has warned.Shin Wonsik arrived in Tokyo on Sunday to lock a deal with Japan and the US for the tracking of North Korean missiles and share real-time data among the three countries.Concerns about Pyongyang’s nuclear programme have grown in recent years as the North performed a slew of provocative missile tests and openly threatened to use nuclear weapons preemptively in potential conflicts with its adversaries.South Korean intelligence agencies have been claiming that North Korea has finished all preparations to conduct a...

North Korea’s rumoured seventh nuclear test could happen during US elections, South Korea says

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Newly released police body cam video shows the chaotic moments just before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania last month, with local police blaming the Secret Service for the security lapse. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports.

Body cam video reveals more about the attempted assassination of Trump

Regular heavy marijuana use may increase a person’s risk of developing some head and neck cancers, a study published Thursday in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery found. The study found that heavy cannabis users were between 3.5 and 5 times more likely to develop head and neck cancers than...

Heavy cannabis use may increase risk of certain cancers, new study finds

Latin Times

Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum defended the decision to invite her soon-to-be Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to her inauguration in October, following backlash and the Ukrainian embassy's request for the country to detain him upon arrival given the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against him. "They are diplomatic letters normally sent...

Mexican president-elect defends inviting Putin to inauguration while Ukraine asks for his detention

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

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North Korean state media has accused South Korean outlets of spreading rumours about flood damage and casualty numbers

North Korea floods: Putin pledges aid after Kim Jong-un rebuffs Seoul’s offer of assistance

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences to North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un over devastating floods that caused untold casualties and damaged thousands of homes, the Kremlin said on Saturday. It said on Saturday that there were no casualties at all in the Sinuiju area, the region Pyongyang claimed suffered the "greatest flood damage."

Putin vows support to North Korea after devastating floods

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea on Thursday offered to send aid supplies to North Korea to help the country recover from heavy rains and floods that submerged thousands of homes and huge swaths of farmland. It’s unclear whether North Korea would accept South Korea’s proposal for help. Animosity between...

South Korea offers humanitarian aid to flood-hit North Korea

- Advertisement - North Korean authorities have reportedly punished several officials and students for secretly watching the abruptly canceled Korean War film “72 Hours.”. According to Radio Free Asia on August 8, authorities in Yanggang Province have punished multiple officials and students from Kim Jung-suk County for secretly watching a government-produced propaganda film. The punishment has sparked heightened interest among residents regarding the sudden cancellation of the film’s screening.

North Korean officials and students punished for watching their own banned propaganda film ‘72 Hours’

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

In contrast, Kim expressed gratitude regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer of assistance with rain damage recovery efforts in the country’s northwestern areas. Kim said he would seek help from the North’s “truest friend,” Moscow, when necessary, North Korean state media reported Sunday. Accusing South...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un accuses South of ‘fabricating’ impact of floods after aid offer

Russian and Chinese nuclear-capable strategic bombers patrolled near the U.S. state of Alaska in the North Pacific and Arctic on Thursday, the two countries said, a move that prompted the United States and Canada to scramble fighter jets. Russian Tu-95MS “Bear” strategic bombers and Chinese Xi’an H-6 strategic bombers took...

Russian and Chinese nuclear-capable bombers patrol near U.S.

A group of young, professional North Korean escapees has been pushing for a change in U.S. policy toward North Korea in meetings with officials and policy experts in Washington, D.C., and New York.

North Korean escapees urge U.S. to promote human rights, information access

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Officials in North Korea seek medicine for Kim Jong Un's health problems related to obesity, Seoul says

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Un is more obese than ever, and his deputies are looking for foreign medicines to treat him for high blood...

Officials in North Korea seek medicine for Kim Jong Un's health problems related to obesity, Seoul says

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