More people are sentenced to death in North Korea, and more judgments are executed – including for the crime of watching South Korean TV. This is written by the UN's human rights organization OHCHR in a report where the population's suffering is described as worse than ten years ago. A lost decade, says the UN's human rights commissioner Volker Türk.
WorldTaxes, freezing of new permits and initiated constructions that are suddenly completely stopped. At the same time as the competitor China is making a large investment in wind power, the President of the USA is trying to put obstacles in the way at home.
BusinessNorth Korea's dictator Kim Jong-Un does not often leave his homeland. Now he is in Beijing, where he has attended this week's massive military parade and met China's president Xi Jinping.
WorldThere are credible reports that North Korea is conducting medical experiments on people with disabilities, according to the UN.
WorldPutin says he is ready to meet with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyj – if he comes to Moscow.
WorldThe teenage girl Kim Ju-Ae has accompanied dad Kim Jong-Un to Beijing – and is thus stepping out onto the world political scene. The dictator's daughter is believed to be next in line in the succession order of closed North Korea's power dynasty.
WorldUkraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyj has in Copenhagen participated in a summit with Nordic and Baltic countries on new measures against Russia's war of aggression. Also Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was on site to, as Zelenskyj expresses it, "prepare major reinforcements for Ukraine".
ConflictsRussia's offensive war in Ukraine is on the agenda when Russia's and North Korea's Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un meet one on one in Beijing. The meeting takes place after the two leaders attended a large military parade there.
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