Considering how capitalist Vietnam is sometimes people forget they are still ruled by a Communist regime:
Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam, will visit North Korea to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, state media reported Monday.
The Vietnamese leader will pay a state visit to the North at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on the occasion of the party anniversary set for Friday, the Korean Central News Agency reported in a short dispatch.
Vietnam’s foreign ministry also announced that Lam will visit North Korea for three days starting Thursday.
It would mark the first trip to North Korea by a Vietnamese leader in 18 years.
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The article doesn’t say, but I wonder how many countries Pyongyang got to show up to their defense expo?:
This image published by the Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 5, 2025, shows North Korea’s Defence Development-2025, which kicked off in Pyongyang on Oct. 4. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)
North Korea has launched its annual defense exhibition for the third consecutive year, with leader Kim Jong-un describing it as “the results” of the country’s projects to modernize and advance its military capabilities, state media reported Sunday.
The Defence Development-2025 kicked off in Pyongyang the previous day, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
n a speech at the event, Kim touted it as the “recent results of the important projects … to put the structure of the DPRK’s military capabilities, with its nuclear deterrent as the backbone, on an increasingly modern, advanced footing.”
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The annual national traffic jam began again this weekend:
Cars are stuck on the Gyeongbu Expressway in Seoul on Oct. 3, 2025, the first day of the extended Chuseok holiday. (Yonhap)
Heavy traffic began to build on major roads and highways across South Korea on Sunday as people headed to their hometowns for family reunions a day ahead of Chuseok.
Chuseok, the Korean fall harvest festival, falls on Monday but South Koreans are enjoying an extended holiday from Friday to Thursday, as it falls between National Foundation Day and Hangeul Day, which marks the creation of the Korean alphabet.
You can read more at the link.
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Fortunately no one in the helicopter or on the ground were injured due to this emergency landing caused by a maintenance fault:
A U.S. Army helicopter made a precautionary landing approximately 110 miles from its home base in South Korea after detecting a potential mechanical issue, according to the 2nd Infantry Division. Two AH-64 Apache pilots based at Humphreys were on a routine training flight near Kunsan Air Base on Monday when they detected an apparent problem with the aircraft, the command said in a news release that day. The unarmed Apache landed near Buan city at 12:10 p.m. out of an abundance of caution, 2nd ID spokesman Maj. Steven Modugno told Stars and Stripes by email the next day.
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