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  • For the sixth night in a row, the US military strikes Iran, and Iranian media reports explosions in areas including Bandar Abbas, Ahvaz, and Iranshahr.
  • Two persons injured in a US attack on the Bandar Abbas railway junction station, according to Iran's ISNA news agency.
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Thursday that it would not "allow" the United States to cause instability in the region.
  • In a post to X on Thursday, the headquarters of the Kuwait Armed Forces stated that the Gulf country's air defenses were once more "confronting attacks by hostile drones" that were launched from Iran.
  • Eight more Iranian missiles were intercepted by Jordan's military early on Thursday morning, according to the official Jordan News Agency.

Tag: North Korea

July 23, 2024

Propaganda Video Warns North Koreans Not...

Authorities in North Korea are showing propaganda videos meant to scare people off watching media from rival South Korea, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.

June 11, 2024

North Korea Restores Train Service to...

After a four-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, passenger rail service between Russia and North Korea has been restored, with 41 Russian tourists taking the train to North Korea last week, according to Moscow’s customs service.

May 22, 2024

North Korean Toy Store Blows Up...

A fireworks store in North Korea was featured in the country’s state media for its unique products, including fireworks shaped like intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs.Ballast

May 16, 2024

North Korea Opens More App Stores...

North Korea is opening more information technology exchange centers across the country – facilities that sell apps to the growing number of smartphone users, residents told Radio Free Asia.

April 6, 2024

Chinese Tourist Tower Overlooking North Korea...

A gigantic steel tower in China – part of a tourist attraction with views into the North Korean city of Hyesan – that leans almost over the Yalu River between the two nations could be demolished after several tense interactions between Chinese tourists and North Koreans below, residents in both countries told Radio Free Asia.

December 22, 2023

Escaped North Koreans Urge China to...

Most of the North Koreans who escape to China are women, and they can become easy targets for human traffickers. Some end up being sold into marriages, sex work or other forms of servitude.

November 21, 2023

North Korea Cracks Down on Unregistered...

North Korean authorities are cracking down on people who use unregistered laptops and tablets to keep them from watching foreign “anti-socialist” videos, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.

October 24, 2023

S Korea Detains Boat Carrying Suspected...

South Korean authorities said Tuesday it detained a North Korean boat carrying four people believed to be seeking to defect, to assess the legitimacy of their intentions.  

October 10, 2023

North Korean Woman Sentenced to 3...

North Korea has sentenced a woman to three years in prison for talking on the phone to her daughter who had escaped the country and resettled in South Korea, sources in the North told Radio Free Asia.

August 8, 2023

Postwar Military Taboos Break Amid China,North...

This week, Japan commemorates the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945, which killed hundreds of civilians and ended World War II, the postwar constitution of Japan limited its military forces and renounced war as a right of the nation.

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