October 3, 2023
Hangzhou, China – North Korea’s Ri Song Gum set a staggering world record Saturday as she won gold in the first weightlifting event of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, four years after her last international competition. Competing in the women’s 49-kilogram class, the 140-centimeter tall pocket rocket secured gold on her second attempt in the
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A new reef the size of a football pitch has been created in the North Sea as a home for 10,000 native oysters in a conservation project that will help remove pollutants from the water. The molluscs have been dubbed superheroes of the oceans because of their ability to filter 200 litres of water a
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Essendon’s current offer for free agent Ben McKay may not be enough to trigger the first-round compensation that will see North Melbourne accept his exit, reports the Herald Sun’s Jon Ralph. While the exact herbs and spices of the AFL’s compensation formula are unknown and forever changing, the Bombers are currently offering McKay a salary
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HANGZHOU, China – North Korea soccer coach Sin Yong Nam defended his players after several clashed with match officials on the pitch after their 2-1 defeat to Japan in the Asian Games quarterfinals in Hangzhou on Sunday. North Korea captain Jang Kuk Chol and teammate Kim Kyong Sok remonstrated heatedly with referee Rustam Lutfullin after
READ MOREBritain on Wednesday authorised oil and gas production in its largest undeveloped field to bolster its energy security, one week after the government diluted its net zero targets, triggering further condemnation by environmentalists. Norwegian oil and gas producer Equinor and Ithaca Energy, a subsidiary of Israeli group Delek, will together invest $3.8 billion in developing
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North Korea’s potential partnership with Russia, which would see the country supply Moscow with much-needed munitions, is likely to make little impact in the ongoing Ukraine conflict, experts told Fox News Digital. “If you’re going to North Korea for help, you’re kind of hitting the dregs,” said Seth Jones, director of both the International Security
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North Korea is also pursuing the development of smaller warheads to fit a variety of delivery systems, it said. North Korea has enshrined its status as a nuclear power in its constitution, with leader Kim Jong Un calling for bigger, more modern atomic weapons. The move follows Kim’s declaration last year that North Korea is
READ MOREPrivate Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea in July, is in U.S. custody and heading home after being expelled by North Korea into China, the United States said on Wednesday. While details about the diplomacy that led to King’s transfer remained scarce, the development was a rare example of cooperation between
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The North Korean government has added the policy of growing its nuclear capabilities into the national constitution. The 14th Supreme People’s Assembly, the unicameral legislative body of the country, made the constitutional change on Wednesday. “The DPRK’s nuclear force-building policy has been made permanent as the basic law of the state, which no one is
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Key Points King had entered North Korean territory while on tour of South Korea in July. He was treated by North Korea as an illegal immigrant. North Korea’s news agency stated King was “disillusioned about the unequal US society”. Private Travis King, the United States soldier who ran into North Korea in July, is in
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