Traders at their stalls minutes after an exploding Russian drone hit the roof of an indoor market in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. 📸REUTERS/Thomas Peter

"...combat groups of the 8th Battalion are retreating into the forest ..."

Our latest investigation into North Korean troops fighting for Russia contains radio intercepts, shared by Ukrainian intelligence, straight from the front line:

Using chatGPT’s latest image model to bring my three-year-old’s scribble to life:

EXCLUSIVE: Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as Tehran deepened its defence cooperation with Moscow, a Reuters review of travel records and employment data indicates.

Fascinating story via the Daily NK - on North Korean smart phones, attempting to write 'oppa' (오빠) triggers a digital warning and the phone changes the word to 'comrade' (동지).

Same happens with a lot of commonly used South Korean colloquialisms: www.dailynk.com/20250122-1/

Based on those photos and our sourcing, we were able to reconstruct the pager-bomb's design. One crucial clue was that the battery sold with the pagers was too heavy for its stated energy capacity, indicating 'missing mass'.

The organisation has since received a boost to its budget from the U.S. State Department via its “Surge and Sustain Fund for Anti-Censorship Technology”, an initiative created at the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy.

The tools, backed by the Washington, DC-based Open Technology Fund, have seen a surge of usage in Russia, Iran, Myanmar and authoritarian states that heavily censor the internet.

That data also revealed an account on a website selling digital templates to create realistic-looking fake identification documents, including U.S. driving licences, visas and passports.

We also spoke to a North Korean IT worker who recently defected. He examined the documents and confirmed their authenticity to Reuters.

"We would create 20 to 50 fake profiles a year until we were hired," he said. Here are some of the faked resumes Unit 42 found.

The Unit 42 documents contain dozens of fraudulent resumes, online profiles, interview notes, and forged identities that North Korean workers used to apply for jobs in software development.

There are even forged green cards, like this one, used by 'Richard'.