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Footage of Korean People’s Army soldiers conducting winter training during a military parade marking the ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, released on Feb. 25 [YONHAP]

No shirts, just snow: North releases footage of soldiers battling cold during winter training

North Korea revealed footage of its Korean People’s Army soldiers undergoing winter training at a military parade held to mark the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

2026.3.4

In this photograph released by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, speaks to military officials during an inspection of an unspecified weapons plant that took place the previous day. [YONHAP]

North's Kim calls for 'epochal change' in war preparations during arms factory visit

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected a factory that produces new missile launchers as he called for an “epochal change” in the regime’s war preparations, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday.

2024.5.15

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In this photo released on Thursday by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central News Agency, regime leader Kim Jong-un reviews the North's war plans during his visit to a command post of the Korean People's Army on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

North practices striking, occupying South in command post exercise

North Korea conducted a command post exercise to rehearse striking and invading South Korean territory, Pyongyang's state media reported Thursday, the same day that Seoul and Washington concluded their 11-day joint exercise.

2023.8.31

United Nations Command Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. Andrew Harrison delivers a Remembrance Day speech at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan on Nov. 11, 2022. [YONHAP]

UNC confirms talks with North at JSA over G.I. who fled

The United Nations Command is in talks through an official channel with the North Korean military regarding the U.S. Army private who dashed into the North at the Joint Security Area last week, according to the British deputy commander of the force.

2023.7.24

South Korean soldiers assigned to the United Nations Command stand guard at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Joint Security Area (JSA) in Paju, Gyeonggi, on Feb. 7. [YONHAP]

U.S. Army report suggests G.I.’s JSA dash was premeditated

North Korea’s military has not responded to the Pentagon’s queries about an American soldier who crossed into the North on Tuesday, but a leaked U.S. military report included details suggesting that he had planned his defection ahead of time.

2023.7.20

Kim Song-chol, a colonel general in the North's Korean People's Army, appeared at the head of the I Ground Corps' procession at the Feb. 8 military parade in Pyongyang in footage broadcast by state-controlled Korean Central Television. [YONHAP]

North shakes up leadership of army ground forces

North Korea appears to have reshuffled the leadership of the Korean People's Army's Ground Corps since April last year, according to analysis of the military parade held in Pyongyang last week.

2023.2.15

A photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows a vehicle carrying a mock-up of a solid-fuel intercontinental missile under development at a military parade in Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang on Wednesday evening. [YONHAP]

North displays enough ICBM launchers to defeat U.S. missile defense

North Korea displayed the largest number of its longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile at a nighttime military parade on Wednesday, as well as mock-ups of a new solid-fuel missile under development, state media photos showed Thursday.

2023.2.9

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (right), his daughter Kim Ju-ae (center) and his wife Ri Sol-ju (left) sit at a banquet celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army (KPA), with KPA generals standing behind them in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday. [YONHAP]

North's Kim celebrates army's birthday with daughter

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a banquet following a visit to a North Korean army barracks with his daughter Kim Ju-ae on Tuesday, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army (KPA).

2023.2.8

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, presides over an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea on Monday. [KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY]

North Korea calls for 'perfecting' war readiness posture in meeting chaired by leader Kim

North Korea has convened a meeting of the ruling party's central military commission to discuss ways to expand operational combat drills and "more strictly perfect" its readiness posture for war, according to its state media Tuesday.

2023.2.7

In footage broadcast by state-controlled Korean Central Televsion, a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is unveiled at a military parade in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2020. [YONHAP]

Rehearsal for Pyongyang military parade spotted

North Korea appears to have mobilized military equipment for a rehearsal for a parade at Mirim training ground near Pyongyang, according to satellite photos captured by Planet Labs earlier this month.

2023.1.12