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ICE seeks OSINT, French intel journal, Chinese PM in Pyongyang, UK and Baltic get-together, French spy novel prize

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United StatesICE looking to boost open source analysis capabilities

FranceVeteran counter-espionage agents contribute to intelligence research journal

China/North KoreaTrump's shadow looms over Li Qiang's Pyongyang trip

UKBaltic states are guests of honour at Westminster mission on national security strategy

FranceAnti-money laundering specialist lands French spy novel prize

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New Tracfin deputy, London alerts Washington, DRM lawsuit, AUKUS, Kim Jong-un's daughter in China, Beijing's Ukraine silence

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceFinancial crimes office Tracfin to name new deputy director

United KingdomSubtle warning from London to Washington on intelligence sharing

FranceCourt rejects former DRM contractor's compensation demand

AUKUSCanberra affirms wish to open cyber and intelligence pillar to Seoul, Wellington and Ottawa

North KoreaKim Jong-un's daughter Kim Ju-ae uncomfortable on China trip

China/UkraineBehind Xi Jinping's silence on the Ukraine conflict

Seoul beefs up diplomatic intelligence to extend global reach

South Korea is eager to carve out a larger role for itself on the international stage, and has created a strategy and intelligence bureau within its ministry of foreign affairs. Most of the diplomats assigned to it have experience of working on the North Korea file.

Pyongyang and Berlin play diplomatic tit-for-tat

Following the high-profile visit of German diplomats to North Korea in February, Pyongyang and Berlin both attempted to find a common ground, before diplomatic relations became strained once again.

Beijing lets North Korean workers protest near border to pressure Pyongyang

North Korean workers in China are protesting near the border with North Korea under the watchful eye of China's Ministry of State Security. Kim Jong-un's regime can't do anything to stop the demonstrations, except realign itself to Beijing's interests.

Russia planning for half a million North Koreans to replace Muslim construction workers

Amid concessions to Pyongyang and the FSB's new ethno-security considerations, Moscow is secretly preparing to import 500,000 North Korean workers.

North Korean labourers dispatched to rebuild Donbas

Unofficial Kremlin-mandated sherpas are discreetly accompanying the first batches of North Korean workers to their dormitories and workplaces in Eastern Ukraine where they have been tasked with rebuilding war-devastated areas.

Russian tax authorities watchful of counter-proliferation issues with Pyongyang

The rapprochement between Pyongyang and Moscow, illustrated by Kim Jong-un's recent visit to Vladimir Putin, has not deterred Russia's tax authorities from taking a keen interest in counter-proliferation issues with North Korea.

Intense negotiations under way for Kim Jong-un's visit to Beijing

Before the potential summit meeting between the Chinese and North Korean leaders at the end of this year, Chinese delegations are due to visit Pyongyang. Drawing on their common support for Russia in its war with Ukraine, the two want to put the improvement in their relations on an official footing.

North Korean labourers ready to start rebuilding the Donbass in mid-July

Russian deputy PM Marat Khusnullin's teams are ready to start welcoming North Korean building workers in Moscow before sending them off into the territories occupied by Russia in eastern Ukraine. The operation is creating a lot of work for Russia's security and para-security services.