North Korea Times media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places North Korea Times in the centre. We have seen it on 24 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is North Korea Times biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places North Korea Times in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is North Korea Times left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places North Korea Times in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is North Korea Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for North Korea Times are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What North Korea Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with North Korea Times’s own report linked underneath.
Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance after a multi-stage attack that began in June. The breach involved a bogus job interview and malicious software, leading to the compromise of two engineers' computers and a record crypto heist.
North Korea Times reported it asBinance reveals fake recruitment interviews, compromised AI tool used in USD 6.34 billion cyberattack (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
North Korea's defense research institutes have tested a cluster bomb warhead intended for tactical ballistic missiles. State media reported the weapon can destroy an area of up to 13 hectares, and Pyongyang plans to equip military units with various types by the end of 2026.
North Korea Times reported it asNorth Korea tests cluster bomb warhead for tactical ballistic missiles, vows to field various types by year-end (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
North Korea Times reported it asHow the record-breaking $6.3 billion heist in crypto history unfolded (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that North Korea launched an unidentified projectile off its east coast on Thursday. Japan's Coast Guard suggested it could be a ballistic missile, a detail not widely reported.
North Korea Times reported it asSuspected ballistic missile launched from North Korea: Japan PMO (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
The U.S. Treasury Department has proposed a new rule to restrict American investments in sensitive technologies like artificial intelligence and supercomputing in countries including China, Russia, and North Korea. The move aims to prevent adversaries from using U.S. capital to enhance their military power.
North Korea Times reported it asUS Treasury proposes expanding investment curbs on Chinese AI, biotech firms (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited China, arriving in the border city of Dandong via a newly opened bridge. This marks his first visit to the country in more than a year, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
North Korea Times reported it asN Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrives in China's Dandong via newly opened bridge: Report (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
President Donald Trump has suggested he may meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his upcoming Asia trip. Trump described a potential meeting as 'exciting' and said he 'gets along' with Kim.
North Korea Times reported it asTrump says he may meet DPRK leader during Asia trip next month (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
An investigation by the Joint Chiefs of Staff has concluded that a soldier's injury in the Demilitarized Zone was caused by a landmine planted by the North Korean military south of the Military Demarcation Line. The findings were confirmed by military authorities.
North Korea Times reported it asS. Korea accuses DPRK of planting landmines south of MDL, demands apology (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
North Korea announced it conducted a firing drill involving an intermediate-range strategic missile on Saturday. Kim Yo-jong, sister of leader Kim Jong-un, stated the missile used artificial intelligence and had a special flight mode, capable of changing its orbit at low altitude.
North Korea Times reported it as1st LD Writethru: DPRK test-fires intermediate-range missile (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has threatened "additional measures" against Ukraine unless Kyiv publicly apologizes for disclosing the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers. Seoul claims Ukraine breached a non-disclosure agreement, while Kyiv describes the dispute as a "diplomatic misunderstanding."
North Korea Times reported it asKiev trying to spark war on Korean peninsula (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
On 18 September 2026 President Lee Jae‑myung announced South Korea will not deploy troops or military assets to a US‑led war against Iran. He added that naval operations would only protect South Korean ships. The remark came after pressure from US President Donald Trump.
North Korea Times reported it as"No troop dispatch": South Korea's President Lee stresses need to protect national interests in Hormuz (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
North Korea's Ministry of Defense has stated that nuclear weapons could be used in response to actions by the US and South Korea. This statement follows defense talks between the two nations aimed at strengthening cooperation against potential weapons of mass destruction attacks from Pyongyang.
North Korea Times reported it asS. Korean court orders DPRK to pay 32.5 mln USD over 2020 liaison office demolition (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
Cambodia's army announced it will resume joint military exercises with the United States in February next year. The drills, named 'Exercise Angkor Sentinel 2027,' were suspended in 2017. The resumption follows recent high-level meetings aimed at improving relations, though US concerns about Cambodia's ties to China remain.
North Korea Times reported it asUS, South Korea, Japan kick off 3-way military exercise (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
North Korea stated the United States' hostile policy remains unchanged and vowed to strengthen its nuclear force. The country denounced upcoming joint military exercises as a threat, calling its nuclear weapons an 'absolute guarantee for defending its sovereignty'. This comes despite a previous scaling back of drills by the Trump administration.
North Korea Times reported it asU.S. hostile policy toward DPRK never changes: DPRK foreign ministry (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in South Korea on 19 August 2026 for a two-day visit, meeting President Lee Jae Myung and senior officials. The trip follows US President Donald Trump’s decision to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea, prompting regional reactions.
North Korea Times reported it asExplainer: What abrupt cut to joint drills means for U.S.-S. Korea alliance (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
North Korea fired around 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on 20 August 2026, hours after US President Donald Trump said he would meet Kim Jong Un. The launch coincided with joint US-South Korea military drills, which Pyongyang called a provocation despite their reduced scale.
North Korea Times reported it asAs US scales back military exercises with S Korea, Japan says N Korea launches suspected ballistic missile (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
North Korea fired around 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on 20 August 2026, hours after US President Donald Trump said he would meet Kim Jong Un. The launch coincided with joint US-South Korea military drills, which Pyongyang called a provocation despite their reduced scale.
North Korea Times reported it asDPRK fires barrage of ballistic missiles amid US-ROK drills: Seoul (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong stated that the US decision to scale down the Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise forced South Korea into a 'poor plight' of cancelling war games. She called South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s response 'double-dealing' and described the reduced drills as an 'evident disaster' for Seoul.
North Korea Times reported it asSouth Korean president stresses US alliance after Trump order (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump is pressing aides to arrange a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as early as this autumn, according to the Wall Street Journal. The discussions are linked to Trump’s planned November trip to China for the APEC summit, though no date or location has been confirmed.
North Korea Times reported it asTrump eyes meeting with top DPRK leader: WSJ (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in South Korea on 19 August 2026 for a two-day visit, meeting President Lee Jae Myung and senior officials. The trip follows US President Donald Trump’s decision to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea, prompting regional reactions.
North Korea Times reported it asWhy Trump is mad at South Korea (opens North Korea Times in a new tab)
Who says so
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Who owns it
- Midwest Radio Network Pty LtdCorporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Official site
- northkoreatimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- northkoreatimes.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 24
- Reports listed
- 27
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 11 August 2026
26 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. North Korea Times is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 24 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of North Korea Times: its report arrived a median of 19 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 November 2026. Ratings pulled 12 October 2026.
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