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Latest North Korea headlines, collected from 2 news outlets and updated through the day (Tuesday 27 October 2026). Every headline links to the original publisher.

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• Swiss foreign minister to hold talks in North Korea this weekStraits Times · 16 h ago

  ZURICH, Oct 26 - Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis will travel to North Korea this week for political talks and for the formal reopening of Switzerland's diplomatic office in Pyongyang, his government said on Monday.

• North Korea has opened up bridges to Russia and China – in which direction will it go?Guardian Asia Pacific · 3 d ago

  Kim Jong-un has opened the borders to both his key allies in Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, but for different reasons For more than a decade, local Chinese residents pilloried it as nothing more than an empty bridge that

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