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July 16, 2024

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Lina Park

Lina Park

Lina Park is a news trainee at NK News. She previously researched North Korean human rights issues at Hanvoice and South Korean foreign relations at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada.

News

North Korean TV to air Russian film for Putin visit despite ban on foreign media

Authorities make rare exception to rules to broadcast WWII drama on KCTV as part of Russia-centered programming block

Lina ParkLina Park | Seung-Yeon ChungJune 18, 2024
News

ROK opposition leader charged with orchestrating remittances to North Korea

Lee Jae-myung is accused of conspiring with officials to send $8M to the DPRK during his tenure as Gyeonggi governor

Joon Ha ParkJoon Ha Park | Lina ParkJune 12, 2024
News

Unification ministry plans to meet with groups sending leaflets into North Korea

Meetings come as DPRK trash balloons raise tensions, but prominent defector activists say they have no interest in talks

Lina ParkLina ParkJune 11, 2024
Features

What South Koreans think about North Korea’s barrage of trash balloons

Ordinary citizens express confusion at DPRK actions, while emphasizing need for Seoul to protect people from harm

Lina ParkLina ParkJune 4, 2024
News

Activist vows more leafleting unless Kim Jong Un apologizes for trash balloons

Seoul says it has no authority to stop civic groups launches, raising concerns North Korea will restart balloon blitz

Jeongmin KimJeongmin Kim | Lina ParkJune 3, 2024
News

US exports over $200K in goods to North Korea, likely humanitarian aid

Census Bureau data shows multiple shipments of apparent private aid since November, the first in seven years

Lina ParkLina ParkMay 31, 2024
News

North Korea jams GPS signals near sea border after denouncing ROK ‘intrusions’

South Korea reports second day of jamming, as experts warn any crossing could provide pretext for DPRK military response

Ifang BremerIfang Bremer | Lina ParkMay 30, 2024
News

North Korea launches 260 balloons carrying ‘filth and garbage’ into South

ROK issues alerts warning of suspicious objects, days after DPRK threatened to send ‘mounds of filth’ over border

Analysis

Trash talk: How North Korea could carry out its threat to spread ‘filth’ in ROK

DPRK has sent leaflets and even cigarette butts before and could do so again as it adopts tit-for-tat approach to Seoul

Ifang BremerIfang Bremer | Lina ParkMay 27, 2024
News

South Korean foreign minister calls for China to stop repatriating North Koreans

In talks with Chinese counterpart, Cho Tae-yul also raised concerns about Russia-DPRK weapons trade and Korea tensions

Lina ParkLina ParkMay 14, 2024
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