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The Sunday Briefing · 8 Nov 2026
The big story

North Korea is testing at twice the pace of Trump's first term

Launch events this year have passed 20 - second only to 2022. The pattern matters more than the number: cruise missiles, a cluster-warhead test and a new air-defence system in a fortnight point to a military preparing for a long confrontation, not a summit.

Kim Watch

Kim's last public appearance was at the Nampho shipyard on 2 November, where a new warship is being built. That makes it a week without...

The money

The $6.3bn Binance hack - the largest crypto theft ever - is now flowing into Chinese laundering networks...

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