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The U.S. House of Representatives deliberates on a bipartisan bill to protect U.S. small business owners from cyber intrusion, technology theft, and supply chain threats from North Korea and other sources.

November 12, 2026

Explainer: From undercover employment to corporate data breaches: the "Combating Foreign Threats to Main Street Act"

A bipartisan bill that could help U.S. small businesses recognize threats from foreign adversaries, including the risk posed by North Korean workers posing as job candidates, was debated and passed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. It now moves on to the Senate.

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic say that North Korea is accelerating its efforts to convert stolen Binance cryptocurrency into Bitcoin and conceal the movement of funds.

November 11, 2026

Elliptic analytics say North Korea launders stolen Binance funds via homemade meme coins

North Korea is laundering cryptocurrency stolen from Binance through homemade meme coins, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, describing it as a scheme designed to resemble ordinary trading and delay investigators.

Approximately $6.3 billion worth of virtual assets are estimated to have been stolen from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo)

November 06, 2026

North Korea’s Binance hack raises global financial security concerns

Cybersecurity experts tell VOA that the recent North Korean hack of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is particularly concerning because of the speed of both the attack, and how quickly the hackers moved the assets through financial networks.

November 05, 2026

Financial crime watchdog keeps North Korea on blacklist, urges countermeasures

A leading financial crime watchdog, The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has kept North Korea on its list of high-risk countries for the 16th consecutive year.

South Korean soldiers remove landmines inside of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on October 2, 2018 in Cheorwon, South Korea. Picture taken October 2, 2018.

November 02, 2026

ICBL: North Korea’s reported mine-laying could be world’s largest since 2001

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told members of the National Assembly’s intelligence and defense committee last month that North Korea has laid an estimated 960,000 land mines in the Demilitarized Zone since 2024.

James Heenan, Head of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Seoul, is conducting an interview with VOA on October 22.

October 27, 2026

UN official says North Korea’s human rights situation has not improved over past decade

North Korea’s human rights situation has not improved over the past decade and has deteriorated significantly in some key areas, including the use of the death penalty, a senior U.N. human rights official told VOA.

The North Korean oil tanker 'Chonmasan' photographed by a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol aircraft in February 2018. Photo courtesy of the Japanese Ministry of Defense.

October 26, 2026

Two UN-sanctioned North Korean tankers spotted repeatedly off China

Two North Korean oil tankers sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council have been repeatedly spotted off China’s coast, according to the public record by vessel-tracking Marine Traffic website, raising concerns that they may be circumventing sanctions while continuing to operate at sea.

A view of a North Korean detention facility through barbed wire (File photo)

October 22, 2026

North Korea’s secretive prison camps: building the case for accountability

North Korea has continued to expand and renovate detention facilities across the country, while estimates of the number of prisoners held in its political prison camps vary widely, reflecting the limited information available about the secretive system.

The United States has held wartime operational control (OPCON) of South Korean forces since July 1950.

October 21, 2026

US says wartime command transfer to South Korea remains conditions based

The United States has reiterated that wartime operational control, or OPCON, of allied forces on the Korean Peninsula will transition to South Korea only after mutually agreed conditions are met, despite renewed calls from Seoul to accelerate the process.

Reporters are gathered at the entrance of the North Korean Mission Building in New York, USA. (Data photo)

October 20, 2026

With direct delivery to Pyongyang limited, US litigants turn to North Korea’s UN mission

Since the international express carrier DHL announced the suspension of services to North Korea in August, the country's mission to the United Nations in New York has become a key route for serving U.S. court documents tied to lawsuits against Pyongyang.

Elizabeth Salmón, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, briefs the U.N. Security Council on the human rights situation in North Korea. (File photo)

October 16, 2026

UN special rapporteur warns North Korea’s human rights situation has worsened

United Nations Special Rapporteur Elizabeth Salmón has issued a stark warning regarding the worsening human rights situation in North Korea, highlighting an alarming expansion in the scope and application of the death penalty as a tool for social, political, and ideological control.

Flour provided to North Korea by South Korean civic groups last December. (File photo)

October 15, 2026

UN approves US NGO’s medical aid to North Korea as Pyongyang Slams South Korean plan

The U.N. Security Council committee overseeing sanctions on North Korea has approved an exemption allowing U.S. nonprofit organization IGNIS Community to bring medical and rehabilitation equipment into the country, according to a letter recently made public by the committee.