China's Premier Li Qiang plans to visit North Korea this week, marking the highest-level Chinese visit since 2019

China sent fighter jets to intercept a Canadian air force plane tracking North Korean ships breaching U.N. sanctions.

Meanwhile, North Korean authorities are exporting various minerals to China, the source said, including coal, iron ore, molybdenum, zinc, copper and gold. Trading companies that export minerals are mostly large entities under powerful agencies such as the party’s Central Committee or the military.

Hackers have pilfered billions of dollars by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies, the report found.

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By Trevor Hunnicutt, Jihoon Lee and Ju-min Park GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump began the final leg of his Asia trip in South Korea on Wednesday, optimistic about advancing an unresolved tariff deal with President Lee Jae Myung and striking a trade war truce with China's Xi Jinping.

It needs the United States for defense and has spent billions building factories in America. But a Trump trade deal this week with China could erase a Korean edge in the U.S. market.

North Korea has held a reception in Beijing to mark the 75th anniversary of Chinese soldiers' participation in the 1950-53 Korean War, vowing to develop its friendly ties with China, state media reported Tuesday.