Dog tired! Adorable puppies enjoy a nap in tiny sleeping bags at a South Korea day-care centre Puppy Spring in Goyang-si, South Korea, organises a daily nap for its puppies Daycare workers play music to help the dogs sleep after a day of activities Footage shows the cute puppies curl up in miniature sleeping bags together … Read more
As Ken Jennings gets ready to take over as the new temporary hosts of Jeopardy!, in the wake of Alex Trebek’s passing, Ken Jennings is receiving a distinguished honor. The 46-year-old Jennings, who has won the most money from game shows ever, was awarded the 2020 Alumnus of the Year from the Seoul Foreign School … Read more
North Korea publicly executes a citizen by firing squad for breaking Covid restriction rules The condemned man was accused of smuggling across the border with China North Korea officially claims it has never identified a single case of coronavirus But the regime has imposed ‘ultra-high-level emergency quarantine measures’ By Tim Stickings For Mailonline Published: 09:11 … Read more
Rising cases of Covid in Asia are causing alarm and could lead to harsh new measures, months after many of its countries were praised for their handling of the pandemic. South Korea, which has been heralded as the model for controlling the crisis, reported 386 new daily cases on Saturday. The resurgence could force authorities … Read more
Hackers from North Korea and Russia are targeting Covid-19 vaccine research, Microsoft reveals Microsoft said today it has detected attempts by Russian and North Korean hackers to steal data from vaccine researchers and pharmaceutical companies In a blog post today, the company revealed most attacks were unsuccessful Chinese state-backed hackers have also been targeting vaccine-makers, … Read more
North Korea ‘is training elite dolphins to clear mines and attack enemy frogmen’ in carbon-copy of America’s Navy programme North Korea is training dolphins as part of its naval force, evidence suggests Satellite images show animal pens at a naval base in Nampo, on the west coast The Naval Marine Mammal Program dates back to … Read more
South Korea offered a glimpse of a science-fiction future on Wednesday with a demonstration flight of a two-seat drone taxi in Seoul, as the government outlined ambitious plans to commercialise urban air travel by 2025. At an event held next to the Han River near Yeouido, a finance and banking district in the heart of … Read more
North Koreans are warned to stay indoors over fears ‘yellow dust cloud from China’ could infect the population with Covid-19 Kim Jong-un’s regime is urging people to stay inside and keep windows closed Stay-at-home message has also been passed to foreign diplomats in Pyongyang The secretive kingdom claims it has never had a single case … Read more
Poolside bars, revolving restaurants, marbled lobbies and huge indoor swimming pools. These are standard features in posh Western hotels – and, it turns out, in North Korean hotels, too, as a fascinating new book reveals. Hotels of Pyongyang, by author James Scullin and photographer Nicole Reed, takes readers inside the frozen-in-time, yet surprisingly glamorous, hotels … Read more
Huge fire engulfs entire 33-storey apartment block in South Korea, as firefighters race to evacuate hundreds of people inside A blaze has engulfed 33-storeys of a residential building in Ulsan, South Korea Fire is said to have started on floor 12 before spreading through the building Firefighters have been working to clear the 136-household block … Read more