Entity

North Korea

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

As of 6 Nov 2026Last evidence 6 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • North Korea launches missiles toward the sea as Pyongyang protests against US claims on Binance hack

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • North Korea fires unidentified projectile east toward sea: South Korean military

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

  • North Korea denies role in $6.4 billion Binance hack after FBI points to TraderTraitor

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

  • North Korea’s Hackers Use AI to Target Major Crypto Firms, Researchers Say

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • N. Korea set for solo UNESCO taekwondo listing as S. Korea misses joint bid

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving North Korea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 128 mentions on 5 Nov 2026, against 92 on 15 Oct 2026 (+39%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 4 Nov 2026 (4 changes recorded since 28 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 5 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

3,360 documents · 186 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 6 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.07: about 93% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

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 StatesImmigrationRussiaCryptoJapan
  • South Korea · 1,996 shared documents
  • Seoul · 1,396 shared documents
  • China · 959 shared documents
  • United States · 891 shared documents
  • Immigration · 774 shared documents
  • Nuclear · 758 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Russia · 750 shared documents
  • Crypto · 693 shared documents
  • Japan · 669 shared documents
  • Kim Jong-Un · 641 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 128 mentions on 5 Nov 2026 with 92 on 15 Oct 2026 (+39%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +73% from 21 Sept 2026 to 5 Nov 2026, between 49 and 191 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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  "domains": 23,
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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 launches missiles toward the sea as Pyongyang protests against US claims on Binance hack

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • North Korea fires unidentified projectile east toward sea: South Korean military

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

    corroborated

  • North Korea denies role in $6.4 billion Binance hack after FBI points to TraderTraitor

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea’s Hackers Use AI to Target Major Crypto Firms, Researchers Say

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • N. Korea set for solo UNESCO taekwondo listing as S. Korea misses joint bid

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea calls U.S. claims it was behind Binance hack ‘a grave political provocation’

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong says talks with US are possible but not a necessity

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Five Ways North Korea Breaks Into Crypto Firms—and How Binance Was Hacked

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

    corroborated

  • North Korea says US allegations linking it to Binance heist are ‘absurd rhetoric’, KCNA says

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

    reported by two

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

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • 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

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

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 20 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from North Korea

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North Korea

Entity.

Evidence
3,360 documents · 186 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 6 Nov 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
6 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.

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

  • 4 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 1 Nov 2026

  • 4 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 1 Nov 2026

  • 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

4 changes recorded since 28 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 6 Nov 2026.