Photos show what it's like inside the North Korean summer camp where Russian kids will go

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North Korean schoolchildren rowing, water slide in background
Songdowon International Children's Camp has a full-size water park with waterslides and a boating lake.

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North Koreans have a new fashion accessory — Kim Jong Un lapel pins. Here's what they mean for the supreme leader's legacy.

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A North Korean official is seen wearing a pin featuring an image of Kim Jong Un.

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Putin and Kim Jong Un are getting alarmingly close, and it's put US ally South Korea in a predicament

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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, standing left, walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, standing right.

Russian children head to a North Korean summer camp as the countries strengthen ties

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Russia is planning to send youth to a summer camp in North Korea.

North and South Korea are locked in a dangerous arms race. Putin may be about to make this worse.

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A Yonhapnews TV broadcast at a railway station in Seoul showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile launch after new missile tests in July, 2024.

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Russian kids will go to 'excellent' summer camps in North Korea this year as the two countries move close

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Children walk through Songdowon International School Children's Camp on August 22, 2018.
Children walk through Songdowon International School Children's Camp, where Russian children will be sent this summer.

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Putin getting tight with Kim Jong Un could be as big of a problem for China as it is for the US

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Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un smiling and holding up glasses of red wine.
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toast during a reception at the Mongnangwan Reception House in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024.

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South Korea's military fires on border islands for the first time in 7 years as a North Korean missile fails and the balloon war rages on

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South Korean Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) fire rockets during a joint live firing drill between South Korea and the US at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, 65 kms northeast of Seoul, on April 26, 2017
A 2017 drill showing South Korean MLRS in action. Similar weapons were used in the drills conducted Wednesday, per South Korean media.

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North Korea's Kim Jong Un could get his hands on some worrying military tech in exchange for throwing Russia a war lifeline

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This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launching drill of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location.
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launching dr

North Korean troops will become 'cannon fodder' if they aid Russia in Ukraine, Pentagon says

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Putin shakes hands with Kim Jong Un
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un.

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