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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 565

North Korea

US President Joe Biden, right, meets with US President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 13, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
December 11, 2024, 4:15 pm
Biden okays memo that may guide Trump policy on China, Iran, North Korea and Russia
As cooperation between US rivals intensifies, current White House suggests next administration boosts interagency ties, intel sharing between allies, sanctions effectiveness
By AAMER MADHANI
In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Office, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a press briefing at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 3, 2024. (South Korea Unification Ministry via AP).
December 3, 2024, 11:50 pm
South Korea’s President Yoon backs down after briefly declaring martial law
Outraged lawmakers had rejected the decree, sparking the country’s biggest political crisis in decades; protesters outside parliament shout and clap
By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park
Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly building in Seoul early on December 4, 2024, after South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
December 3, 2024, 8:32 pm
South Korean leader declares martial law, sparking chaos as lawmakers vote to block move
Troops seen leaving parliament after politicians from opposition and president’s party force way in to unanimously vote to lift military rule, as crowds of protesters rally outside
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This undated photo provided on September 13, 2024, by the North Korean government shows its leader Kim Jong Un, center, on an inspecting visit at what they say is an institute of nuclear weapons and a facility for nuclear materials at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
September 13, 2024, 2:30 pm
North Korea offers first glimpse into secretive uranium enrichment site
During tour of facility, Kim Jong Un urges workers to produce more materials for tactical nuclear weapons, says it is vital for confronting threats from the US and allies
By Hyunsu Yim and Josh Smith
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (front C) inspects a performance test of drones organized by the Drone Institute of the Academy of Defense Sciences at an undisclosed location in North Korea, August 24, 2024. (KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
August 26, 2024, 1:46 pm
New North Korean suicide drones resemble Israeli UAVs; design suspected stolen by Iran
Pyongyang believed to have acquired the weaponry from Moscow, which may have obtained the plans from ally Tehran, which in turn thought to have hacked the design from Israel
By AFP
South Korean army soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence in Paju, near the border with North Korea, June 27, 2024. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
July 11, 2024, 10:06 am
In world first, South Korea to deploy ‘StarWars’ drone-targeting laser system
As Israel is still developing its Iron Beam, Seoul unveils new cheap weapons that shoot down aerial threats by zapping them with beam of light to burn engines or other parts
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Family and friends attend the funeral of peace activist and one of the founders of the "Women Wage Peace" movement, Vivian Silver at kibbutz Gezer, central Israel. November 16, 2023. Silver was murdered in the October 7 massacre. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)
July 1, 2024, 10:41 pm
October 7 victims sue Iran, Syria, North Korea for billions in US court
More than 125 plaintiffs claim that all three countries provided Palestinian terror group with financial, military and tactical support it needed to carry out devastating assault
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Sept. 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
June 18, 2024, 10:51 pm
Putin meets with Kim Jong Un in North Korea to garner support for Ukraine war
Pyongyang could provide Russian president with badly needed munitions as dictators seek to cooperate amid Western sanctions
By KIM TONG-HYUNG
A Pakistani-made Shaheen-III missile, that is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, are displayed during a military parade to mark Pakistan National Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
June 17, 2024, 9:36 am
Nuclear arms spending soars as global tensions ratchet up, studies show
NATO in talks on deploying more nukes, citing threat from Russia and China; Iran steps up its uranium enrichment while Saudis eye civilian nuclear program
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event at the Chatham House think tank in London, January 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
February 14, 2024, 3:48 pm
US rivals including Iran, North Korea using generative AI in offensive cyber ops
Microsoft publishes report on instances of those countries, along with Russia and China, using its tech and that of partner OpenAI in attacks
By Frank Bajak
This image from a video posted by Hamas on December 20, 2023, purports to show Hamas terrorists using domestic copies of the AM-50 Sayyad, an Iranian-made a sniper rifle that fires a .50- caliber round powerful enough to punch through up to an inch of steel. (Hamas via AP)
January 25, 2024, 11:26 pm
Hamas’s cobbled together weapons arsenal still proving deadly to IDF troops in Gaza
Terror group has smuggled in range of guns, RPGs and anti-tank missiles from Iran, China, Russia and North Korea, while in the Strip it manufactures explosives from fertilizers
By AP
People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file image, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, May 25, 2022. (AP/Lee Jin-man)
November 5, 2023, 6:53 pm
Hamas official says North Korea is ally, insinuates it could one day target the US
Ali Barakeh claims deepening anti-US axis in Asia supporting the terror group, including Tehran, Moscow, Beijing and Pyongyang
By Gianluca Pacchiani
South Korean army K-9 self-propelled howitzers and K-55A1 self-propelled howitzers fire during the military drills at a training field in Cheorwon, South Korea, Oct. 27, 2023. (Yang Ji-woong/Yonhap via AP)
October 27, 2023, 9:53 am
South Korean, US troops drill for ‘Hamas-style surprise attack’ from North Korea
Forces practice strikes to quickly ‘remove the origins of the enemy’s long-range artillery provocations,’ in simulation of assault similar to that carried out by Gaza terror group
By Agencies
Suspected North Korean-made F-7 rocket-propelled grenades, many with a distinctive red stripe on their warhead, are seen at an Israeli military base in southern Israel, October 15, 2023. Hamas terrorists likely used North Korean-manufactured rocket-propelled grenades during their unprecedented assault on Israel that killed over 1,400 people and saw scores taken hostage, despite Pyongyang denying its weapons arm the terror group. (Alon Bernstein/AP)
October 19, 2023, 8:49 am
Evidence shows Hamas likely used North Korean weapons in attack on Israel
Arms seized from terrorists during onslaught and video of attack appear to confirm use of F-7 rocket-propelled grenade, manufactured by Pyongyang regime
By AP and ToI Staff
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows increased activity at the Tumangang Rail Facility in North Korea, on Oct. 5, 2023 (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
October 10, 2023, 3:10 pm
Hamas surprise attack sparks South Korean rethink of border agreement with North
Seoul’s defense minister says he will push to suspend deal creating buffer zone on frontier that had hampered ability to surveil movements by North Korean military
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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