Zelenskyy repeatedly warns of expanded N. Korean role in Russia's war SEOUL, August 11 (AJP) - North Korea's expanding role in Russia's war against Ukraine should raise security concerns in South Korea as Pyongyang gains battlefield experience and improves its weapons through cooperation with Moscow, Ukraine's top military commander has repeatedly warned. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Russia was preparing to station additional North Korean troops on its territory and had received more ballistic missiles from Pyon August 11, 2026

North Korea's Kimsuky builds local AI for cyberattacks SEOUL, August 10 (AJP) - North Korean hacking group Kimsuky has apparently built its own local large language model environment as it expands its use of artificial intelligence from creating phishing lures to extracting information and automating cyberattacks, a South Korean cybersecurity firm said Monday. Genians said its analysis found signs that the group had deployed local AI tools including Ollama, GPT4All and Msty, as well as retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, technolog August 10, 2026

A tale of two Koreas: one learns war, the other stumbles at the border SEOUL, August 07 (AJP) - North Korea is gaining first-hand experience in drones, artillery and ballistic missiles on the battlefields of Ukraine while South Korea's front-line forces are confronting failures in something more basic: loaded weapons, reporting and command. The contrast is sharpening as Pyongyang expands military cooperation with Russia and continues developing its nuclear and missile arsenal, while Seoul investigates why some troops guarding the world's most August 7, 2026

South Korean military steps up vigilance after North Korea fires ballistic missile SEOUL, August 7 (AJP) - The South Korean military remained vigilant on Friday, stepping up its readiness against potential additional launches after North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward the East Sea a day earlier. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the missile was launched from Wonsan in Kangwon Province at around 5 p.m. the previous day, without disclosing details about its flight distance or other specifications, saying that it was analyzing the launch with t August 7, 2026

North Korea slams Japan's military buildup, accusing Tokyo of pursuing rearmament SEOUL, August 5 (AJP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's powerful sister Yo-jong, who often speaks for the regime on foreign policy, has issued another blunt warning, this time aimed at Japan. In a statement carried on Wednesday by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim said Tokyo's recent military moves were pushing the country back toward its wartime past, describing Japan as a "war criminal state" that is accelerating its shift into what she calle August 5, 2026

N. Korea threatens 'new level of deterrence' over S. Korea-led RIMPAC role SEOUL, August 04 (AJP) - North Korea on Tuesday condemned South Korea and Japan’s leadership roles in this year’s Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) claiming that trilateral military cooperation with the United States has become a “new security crisis” in the Asia-Pacific region and threatening to respond with a stronger deterrent. The Korean Central News Agency carried a commentary issued Monday by a North Korean military commentator under the title, &ldqu August 4, 2026

North Korea slams US and allies for spreading 'false information' over IT workers SEOUL, August 4 (AJP) - North Korea on Tuesday criticized a joint alert issued by about a dozen countries including Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. over its alleged illegal earning of foreign currency through computer and technology workers, dismissing it as "false information." In a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a spokesperson for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said the alert by the U.S. and its allied countries was a August 4, 2026

North Korea denounces NATO fuel network overhaul as war preparation SEOUL, August 01 (AJP) - North Korea on Saturday denounced NATO’s plan to modernize its military fuel supply network as an “unprecedented” act of war preparation, accusing the transatlantic alliance of expanding its military reach beyond Europe. The criticism came after NATO approved a 27 billion euro ($31 billion) program to modernize its fuel storage and distribution infrastructure, including pipelines and new facilities in the alliance’s eastern and southe August 1, 2026

North Korea says peninsula conflict matter of time SEOUL, July 31 (AJP) - North Korea declared Friday that armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula is no longer a question of whether but of when, denouncing a personnel buildup at the US military command in Japan as proof that Washington is preparing for war in the region. The statement came days after Lt. Gen. Stephen Jost, commander of US Forces Japan, disclosed in an interview with Japan's Asahi Shimbun published Saturday that his headquarters had added 215 personnel over the July 31, 2026

US Treasury overhauls sanctions list, removes outdated North Korean entity SEOUL, July 28 (AJP) - A North Korean firm linked to the country's nuclear and missile development programs was among those removed and consolidated as part of the U.S. Treasury Department's effort to modernize its sanctions lists, the department said on Monday. The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it "removed 84 individuals and entities and improved identifying information for 22 list entries to facilitate compliance." OFAC said i July 28, 2026