North Korea is reportedly imposing a ban on leather jackets and trench coats so that common people do not copy the style of their supreme leader, Kim Jong-un. 
Radio Free Asia reported, citing sources in the country that authorities in North Korea are saying that it is disrespectful to copy the fashion choices of the country's leader.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean governing party's presidential candidate said Thursday he will continue a conciliatory approach toward North Korea if elected and questioned the effectiveness of U.S.-led economic sanctions in pressuring the North to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

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Squid Game episodes were smuggled into North Korea despite a ban on western and South Korean media. A student in North Korea has been sentenced to death by a firing squad for selling copies of Netflix’s hit show Squid Game. He is said to have smuggled the banned series into the Communist state on a stashed USB drive from China.

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US deputy secretary of state was left to answer questions alone amid simmering tensions over Takeshima/Dokdo islandsA long-running territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea has burst on to the global stage after their vice foreign ministers failed to attend a press conference in Washington with their US counterpart.

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The Biden administration has asked some of the world's largest oil consuming nations to consider releasing some of their crude reserves in a coordinated effort to lower prices and stimulate the economic recovery, according to several people familiar with the matter. Global oil prices touched seven-year highs in late

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Washington [US], November 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States, South Korea, and Japan stand firm in maintaining compliance with UN Security Council sanctions on North Korea for missile launches and are ready to consider new ones if Pyongyang fails to comply, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday.
"There is no question that Japan, South Korea and the United States all agree that we need to stay compl

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PYONGYANG, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited the northern city of Samjiyon to learn about its construction project, the Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday. "I am very pleased to think that a proud thing welcomed by the people has been done. I am very satisfied," the report quoted Kim as saying during the inspection. According

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has returned from a monthlong break from public view to inspect a major development project near the border with China, which he said epitomizes his country’s “iron will” to achieve prosperity in the face of international isolation and pressure.

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