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North Korea

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

As of 2 Nov 2026Last evidence 2 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • North Korea linked to 89% of 2026 crypto hack losses, Chainalysis says

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Security experts are already wondering if North Korea is behind the $6.3 billion Binance heist

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

  • Crypto's longtime foe, North Korea's Lazarus Group, likely behind Binance hack: blockchain sleuths

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • 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

  • Crypto giant Binance attempting to recover $6.3bn stolen in hack linked to North Korea

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

All 12 events and claims involving North Korea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 191 mentions on 2 Nov 2026, against 77 on 12 Oct 2026 (+148%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from watch to flagged on 1 Nov 2026 (2 changes recorded since 21 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 1 Nov 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Trump visit North Korea by December 31?” moved from 10% to 8% Yes since 18 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

2,895 documents · 173 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 2 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.072: 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 StatesImmigrationNuclearRussiaJapan
  • South Korea · 1,820 shared documents
  • Seoul · 1,288 shared documents
  • China · 865 shared documents
  • United States · 815 shared documents
  • Immigration · 734 shared documents
  • Nuclear · 703 shared documents
  • Russia · 677 shared documents
  • Japan · 618 shared documents
  • Kim Jong-Un · 585 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Myung · 495 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 191 mentions on 2 Nov 2026 with 77 on 12 Oct 2026 (+148%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +185% from 18 Sept 2026 to 2 Nov 2026, between 49 and 191 a day

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

Market price, cited

8% Yes

priced 20 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 10% → 8% Yes (-2pts, from 20 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026)

on “Will Trump visit North Korea by December 31?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about North Korea

“Will Trump visit North Korea by December 31?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

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 linked to 89% of 2026 crypto hack losses, Chainalysis says

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Security experts are already wondering if North Korea is behind the $6.3 billion Binance heist

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

    corroborated

  • Crypto's longtime foe, North Korea's Lazarus Group, likely behind Binance hack: blockchain sleuths

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • 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

  • Crypto giant Binance attempting to recover $6.3bn stolen in hack linked to North Korea

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

    corroborated

  • North Korea Just Pulled Off the Biggest Crypto Heist in History, Draining $6.4 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

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

    reported by two

  • U.S., South Korea and Japan vow ‘complete’ denuclearization of North Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • FBI blames North Korea for $6 billion Binance hack, urges THORChain to block stolen funds

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 21 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • U.S. sanctions Russian nationals for laundering millions in crypto for North Korean IT workers

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

    reported by two

  • 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

  • Kim Jong-un urges drone expansion as North Korea showcases new unmanned tech

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

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

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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North Korea

Entity.

Evidence
2,895 documents · 173 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 2 Nov 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
2 Nov 2026
22 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • 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.

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.

Other 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 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Will there be 4 or more North Korea tests in October 2026?” (closed 31 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 1 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 1 Oct 2026

  • 1 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 1 Oct 2026

2 changes recorded since 21 Oct 2026, newest first.

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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 2 Nov 2026.