#north-korea

#north-korea

Chapman helped North Korean workers fraudulently obtain remote-work jobs at U.S. companies. She turned her home into a "laptop farm," concealing their identities.

North Korea launched two 5,000-ton destroyers this year, one of which capsized at its launch. Kim Jong Un vowed to enhance maritime power.

A sentence that is too lenient would convey the wrong message to both North Koreans and current and future U.S.-based facilitators that this conduct is tolerated in the U.S. and worth the risk of being caught by U.S. law enforcement.

Hackers have stolen more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency in the first half of 2025, indicating the worst year-to-date on record for such thefts.

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.

The man was first detected by South Korean military surveillance equipment sometime between 3 and 4 a.m. on Thursday near a shallow stream inside the DMZ.

The indictments assert that North Korean workers partnered with U.S. conspirators to steal identities, securing illicit jobs at Fortune 500 companies and generating over $5 million.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated that the construction of a new building at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex is being monitored due to its dimensions similar to enrichment plants.

North Korea has salvaged a capsized destroyer, now deemed a 'significant asset' for its military, as restoration efforts commence ahead of a Key Party congress.

Experts will now examine the warship's hull for the next stage of restorations, to be carried out at Rajin Dockyard over the coming week to 10 days.