Bella Seo, who fled North Korea when she was a teenager, has given a chilling account of what school life is like in the hermit kingdom, where children are forced to do hard labour.

Pyongyang admitted for the first time that it has sent troops to fight against Ukraine, according to North Korean media.

After Russia claimed to have retaken the Kursk region from Ukraine, North Korea acknowledged for the first time that it had sent soldiers to fight in Moscow’s war.