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North Korea insists it will keep nuclear weapons forever

Rank
Ran
29h
Updated
10d ago
Final
Outlets
32
Regions
5
Countries
26
Languages
17

+16

Where it travelled

The 26 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

16%34%31%

  • Africa 3 outlets · 2 countries · 10%
  • Americas 5 outlets · 5 countries · 16%
  • Asia-Pacific 11 outlets · 9 countries · 34%
  • Europe 10 outlets · 7 countries · 31%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 9%

The figures

Coverage
32 outlets in 26 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 32 outlets, 5 state-owned, 3 public-service, 24 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Nigeria, Tunisia. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, United States. Asia-Pacific 9: India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 7: Austria, Belgium, Greece, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Serbia. Middle East 3: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article El Sol de México, 24 Sept 2026, 02:00 UTC. First seen 24 Sept 2026, 02:50 UTC. Last seen 25 Sept 2026, 08:12 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 Asia-Pacific, North Korea. Topic Conflict & security. 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
9.46, at the end of the last day measured. 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.
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
24 Sept 2026 (partial) 94 11.99 30 24 30 24 3.3
25 Sept 2026 116 9.46 32 26 2 2 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 24 Sept, 02:50 UTC · Updated 25 Sept, 08:12 UTC

Covered by 32 outlets

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Africa 3 outlets

  • Channels TV Nigeria
  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia
  • Vanguard Nigeria

Americas 5 outlets

  • 14ymedio Cuba
  • Bloomberg United States
  • El Sol de México Mexico
  • Estadão Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina

Asia-Pacific 11 outlets

  • Chosun Ilbo South Korea
  • CNA Singapore
  • Dân Trí Vietnam
  • Detik Indonesia
  • FNN Japan
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • Republica Nepal
  • Thairath Thailand
  • Times of India India
  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia
  • Yonhap South Korea

Europe 10 outlets

  • 15min Lithuania
  • Blic Serbia
  • Der Standard Austria
  • Digi24 Romania
  • ERT Greece
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium
  • Interfax Russia
  • LRT Lithuania
  • ORF Austria
  • TASS Russia

Middle East 3 outlets

  • An-Nahar Lebanon
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia

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