Entity

North Korea

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

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan, Seoul's military says

    Reported event · first reported 12 Oct 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 8 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: 2 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 10 events and claims involving North Korea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 70 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 61 on 26 Sept 2026 (+15%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,885 documents · 132 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 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 · 1,239 shared documents
  • Seoul · 875 shared documents
  • China · 556 shared documents
  • United States · 546 shared documents
  • Nuclear · 490 shared documents
  • Japan · 454 shared documents
  • Russia · 438 shared documents
  • Immigration · 418 shared documents
  • Myung · 370 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Kim Jong-Un · 369 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 70 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 61 on 26 Sept 2026 (+15%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +600% from 2 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 10 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

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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.

  • North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan, Seoul's military says

    Reported event · first reported 12 Oct 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan, Seoul's military says · corroborated · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 8 separate publishers
    • North Korea Test-Fires Two Types Of Submarine-Launched Cruise Missiles In Sea Of Japan · corroborated · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 7 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

    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: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • 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: 2 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: 13 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea Fires Multiple Ballistic Missiles Four Days After Lee Watched Hypersonic Test

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • North Korea's Kim showcases missile capable of reaching US as Trump signals possible meeting

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • North Korea says latest missile launch tested upgraded tactical ballistic missile

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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North Korea

Entity.

Evidence
1,885 documents · 132 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 17 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
21 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (11)

  • 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.

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 17 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

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 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 17 Oct 2026.