Entity

North Korea

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

As of 31 Oct 2026Last evidence 31 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • N. Korea slams multination statement backing anti-Pyongyang sanctions as 'strategic failure'

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Swiss foreign minister arrives in Pyongyang as Bern reopens diplomatic office

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Analysts Link Record $6.4B Binance Hack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor Group

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Summary of domestic news in North Korea this week

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Blockchain analysis firm TRM says North Korea behind $6.3 billion Binance crypto theft

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 11 events and claims involving North Korea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 137 mentions on 31 Oct 2026, against 57 on 10 Oct 2026 (+140%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 19 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 5 claims first reported since 30 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,692 documents · 155 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 31 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.071: 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 StatesImmigrationRussiaJapan
  • South Korea · 1,738 shared documents
  • Seoul · 1,247 shared documents
  • China · 834 shared documents
  • United States · 774 shared documents
  • Immigration · 708 shared documents
  • Nuclear · 669 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Russia · 647 shared documents
  • Japan · 590 shared documents
  • Kim Jong-Un · 562 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Myung · 478 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 137 mentions on 31 Oct 2026 with 57 on 10 Oct 2026 (+140%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +158% from 16 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026, between 49 and 148 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.

  • N. Korea slams multination statement backing anti-Pyongyang sanctions as 'strategic failure'

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Swiss foreign minister arrives in Pyongyang as Bern reopens diplomatic office

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Analysts Link Record $6.4B Binance Hack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor Group

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Summary of domestic news in North Korea this week

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Blockchain analysis firm TRM says North Korea behind $6.3 billion Binance crypto theft

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • North Korea fires missile barrage toward the sea as tensions with South rise

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • North Korea fires 'around a dozen' ballistic missiles amid rising tensions with South Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea displays drones, missiles as Kim Jong-un urges AI weapons push

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Tensions high as North Korea howitzer spotted near South Korean border

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Swiss foreign minister to visit North Korea this week to open political office

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Seoul ‘fabricated’ landmine blast, North Korea tells UN in letter

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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North Korea

Entity.

Evidence
2,692 documents · 155 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 31 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
31 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.

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.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 19 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 31 Oct 2026.