Entity

North Korea

The isolated, nuclear-armed state on the Korean Peninsula, ruled by the Kim family.

As of 19 Oct 2026Last evidence 19 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Belarus Opens Embassy in North Korea, Vows Closer Ties

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Summary of domestic news in North Korea this week

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • North Korea tests new high-precision AI-equipped torpedo: state media

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Pyongyang rejects Seoul's hypersonic test claims, justifies own arms buildup

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Chinese travel agents advertising North Korea business trips on social media

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 8 events and claims involving North Korea

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 54 mentions on 18 Oct 2026, against 78 on 27 Sept 2026 (-31%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 8 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 18 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,926 documents · 133 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 19 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.068: about 93% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside North Korea

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

South KoreaSeoulChinaUnited StatesNuclearJapanRussiaImmigration
  • South Korea · 1,263 shared documents
  • Seoul · 894 shared documents
  • China · 569 shared documents
  • United States · 556 shared documents
  • Nuclear · 500 shared documents
  • Japan · 463 shared documents
  • Russia · 449 shared documents
  • Immigration · 429 shared documents
  • Kim Jong-Un · 376 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Myung · 372 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 54 mentions on 18 Oct 2026 with 78 on 27 Sept 2026 (-31%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +286% from 3 Sept 2026 to 18 Oct 2026, between 14 and 100 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions North Korea, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about North Korea yet. Ask about North Korea

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/bda195f4c767a586830296a3 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name north korea.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving North Korea

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Belarus Opens Embassy in North Korea, Vows Closer Ties

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Summary of domestic news in North Korea this week

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • North Korea tests new high-precision AI-equipped torpedo: state media

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Pyongyang rejects Seoul's hypersonic test claims, justifies own arms buildup

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Chinese travel agents advertising North Korea business trips on social media

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Defense ministry refutes Pyongyang's claim questioning Seoul's test of hypersonic glide vehicle

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • China keen to strengthen North Korea trade ties with New Yalu River Bridge opening

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 12 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea Test-Fires Two Types Of Submarine-Launched Cruise Missiles In Sea Of Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from North Korea

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North Korea

Entity.

Evidence
1,926 documents · 133 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 19 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
19 Oct 2026
18 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (8)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names North Korea, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about North Korea

Markets whose question is about North Korea or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to North Korea and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

1 more open market joined to North Korea but not about it
  • 27.5% Yes

    “Will Trump meet with Kim Jong Un in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 19 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · closes 31 Dec 2026

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 8 Oct 2026.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 19 Oct 2026.