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A photograph from an earlier public sentencing. The couple, accused of being arrogant after the success of their business, were executed with hundreds of residents ordered to watch

North Korea executes ‘big shot’ couple who became ‘arrogant’ after the success of their business, accusing them of being ‘anti-republic’

November 18, 2025AfricTeamLeave a Comment

North Korea has executed a ‘big shot’ couple accused of being arrogant and anti-republic after the success of their business. Hundreds of people, including children, are said to have been forced to watch as a firing squad shot them dead in an open space in Pyongyang. The pair, in their 50s, ran a private operation that […]

A leaked video allegedly shows North Korean troops in Russia being kitted out with military equipment

Russian troops ‘have no idea what to do with North Korean soldiers’ and refer to them as ‘the f***ing Chinese’, intercepted audio reveals

October 27, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

Ukraine‘s intelligence services have released audio of what they claim to be Russian troops complaining about the arrival of North Korean fighters and squabbling about how they will be equipped. In one recording, a pair of soldiers can be heard bellyaching about the so-called ‘K battalion’, referring to them as ‘f***ing Chinese’ and declaring one […]

North Korean soldiers stand near their military guard post as a North Korean flag flutters in the wind, seen from Paju, South Korea, Sunday, June 9, 2024

Gunfire on Korean border as Kim Jong Un’s troops cross over into the South

June 11, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

South Korean troops were forced to fire warning shots after a contingent of 20 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border this week, Seoul’s military said this morning in the latest escalation of tensions at the line. The worrying incursion over the line that separates the two militaries took place in an overgrown area of […]

Kim Jong Un visited the funeral hall early Wednesday morning, paid silent tribute and looked around the bier with 'bitter grief over the loss of a veteran revolutionary who had remained boundlessly loyal' to the regime, state media KCNA said

Kim Jong Un bows before the man who made him a god: North Korean leader shows his respect at the funeral of mastermind who created the personality cult surrounding his family’s dynasty

May 8, 2024May 8, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

North Korea‘s former propaganda chief who masterminded the personality cult surrounding the ruling Kim dynasty has died, state media said Wednesday, with leader Kim Jong Un photographed bowing at his funeral bier. Kim Ki Nam died on Tuesday due to old age and ‘multiple organ dysfunction’, having been treated at a hospital since 2022, the […]

The funeral for Alexei Navalny today proved to be Vladimir Putin 's worst nightmare as thousands of Russian mourners gathered in Moscow to say their final farewell

Putin’s worst nightmare: Even in death, Alexei Navalny proves to be Vladimir’s nemesis as huge crowds chant ‘Russia without Putin’ and ‘Putin is a killer’ during funeral in greatest challenge to Vladimir in years

March 2, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

The funeral for Alexei Navalny today proved to be Vladimir Putin‘s worst nightmare as thousands of Russian mourners gathered in Moscow to say their final farewell. Despite a heavy police presence and a warning against dissent from the Kremlin, the huge crowds chanted Navalny’s name as his coffin was carried into the Russian Orthodox church on […]

Footage shows the harrowing scenes people in North Korea have to go through after being punished for trying to defect

Tortured, starved and crushed to death under trees in hell-hole North Korean labour camp: Horrific details of Kim Jong-un’s gulags emerge in new documentary showing defectors trying to flee from hermit country

February 1, 2024AfricTeamLeave a Comment

Horrific details of Kim Jong-un’s gulags have emerged in a documentary showing defectors desperately trying to flee from North Korea. In the gripping documentary Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea, harrowing footage reveals the lengths desperate people will go to to leave Kim Jong-un‘s regime full of famines, a developing economic crisis and crippling international […]

SECURITY RISK: This map shows countries categorised according to security risks, with insignificant marked in green, low in yellow, medium in orange, high in red and extreme in dark purple

Wish you weren’t here? World’s most dangerous countries to visit in 2024 – including South Sudan, Libya and Afghanistan – are revealed in new interactive global security map

December 20, 2023AfricTeamLeave a Comment

South Sudan, Libya and Afghanistan are among the most dangerous countries on earth to visit in 2024, it has been revealed. That’s according to an annual interactive map that shows where travellers are most likely to face security threats based on the risk of political violence, social unrest, violent and petty crimes and, this year, […]

South Korea says North fired short-range ballistic missile into sea | Conflict News

December 17, 2023AfricTeamLeave a Comment

The launch came as Pyongyang marks the anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Un’s father and predecessor Kim Jong Il. South Korea has accused the North of firing a short-range ballistic missile amid tensions in the peninsula. Sunday’s launch came as North Korea condemned the United States-led military’s shows of force, including the […]

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