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South Korea recalls ambassador to Ukraine over North Korean prisoners dispute

Rank: 24
Running: 19h
Updated: 40m ago
Momentum: +9%
Outlets: 59
Regions: 5
Countries: 39
Languages: 21

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Yonhap, 8 Oct, 08:17 UTC.
Second country: Russia, with Kommersant.
Second region: Europe, with Kommersant.
Fastest hour: +22 outlets from 8 Oct, 08:35 UTC.
Now: 59 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 39 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

29%44%

Africa 5 outlets · 5 countries · 8%
Americas 6 outlets · 5 countries · 10%
Asia-Pacific 17 outlets · 10 countries · 29%
Europe 26 outlets · 14 countries · 44%
Middle East 4 outlets · 4 countries · 7%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

Yonhap 8 Oct, 08:17 UTC
Chosun Ilbo +1m
Kommersant +18m
Vedomosti +20m
15min +29m

Latest arrivals

Al Yaoum 24 9 Oct, 03:00 UTC
Digi24 8 Oct, 20:51 UTC
CTV News 8 Oct, 20:40 UTC
Voice of America 8 Oct, 20:15 UTC
ERT 8 Oct, 19:56 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 59 outlets in 39 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 59 outlets, 10 state-owned, 5 public-service, 44 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, United States. Asia-Pacific 10: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 14: Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Yonhap, 8 Oct 2026, 08:17 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 08:40 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 5.77, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged from 2 stories South Korea recalls ambassador from Ukraine; Corea del Sur llama a consultas a su embajador en Kiev por la polémica sobre el traslado de soldados norcoreanos. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

8 Oct 2026 9 31.77 58 38 58 38 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 08:40 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 03:00 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 59 outlets

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Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 59 outlets

Africa 5 outlets

Americas 6 outlets

Asia-Pacific 17 outlets

Europe 26 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets

International 1 outlet