ARGUS/OVERWATCH
NAMES · WHO THE NEWS NAMED · 10-18 TO 10-31

Kim

person Korean family name (김). Wikidata

Named in 1725 articles by 54 newsrooms, in 687 stories, on 14 of the last 14 days, first on 10-18.

Rank
0.1267
by the company kept · 1 is the top name
Articles
1725
5450 mentions
Linked to
1158
names in 2+ shared articles
This week
1.51×
against last week
In Vladimir Putin's circle
33%
of that hub's 30 closest names are also linked here
Bridging
0
between groups · 1 is the top bridge

Most exclusively tied top 30 · ties that pass the test on the right, most exclusive first

The names that appear with Kim in a large share of their own coverage: this name's own company. Exclusivity runs from 0, two names that meet no more than chance would have them, to 1, two names that only ever appear together. A name that is in everything, a president, is exclusive to no one, so the big names fall away here and the names that belong to this one stay. Only ties that pass the strength test count, so a pair seen twice is not a tie. Places are context and have no page.

NameKindExclusivityTogether
Pyongyanggpe0.712538
Dandonggpe0.695232
North Koreagpe0.64710
Koreasgpe0.618151
Yalu Riverloc0.61778
N. Koreagpe0.593210
Korean Warevent0.58593
Northloc0.583274
Seoulgpe0.569804
Demilitarized Zoneloc0.543106
Republic of Koreagpe0.54276
Sinuijugpe0.53953
N Koreagpe0.53823
Hwanggpe0.5224
Demilitarised Zoneloc0.5222
South Koreagpe0.502562
Yonhap News Agencyorg0.49360
People's Republic of Chinagpe0.49315
North and South Koreagpe0.4917
People Power Partyorg0.48471
Waterfordorg0.479120
Xi Jinpingperson0.47200
Korean Peninsulaloc0.46659
Wangorg0.46654
Lee Jae Myungperson0.461130
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperationloc0.44165
North Korea-gpe0.44118
Gyeonggi Provincegpe0.4443
MVPorg0.43741
Beijinggpe0.434254

Most strongly tied the ties chance explains least

How sure the record is that two names appear together for a reason. Strength is a standard statistical test (log-likelihood): above 10.8, chance would produce the pairing less than once in a thousand times. It grows with the number of articles, so the biggest names come first here; the list on the left is where this name's own company shows.

NameStrengthTogether
North Korea5675710
Seoul5480804
Pyongyang5134538
South Korea3381562
Dandong2450232
North2190274
China1787480
N. Korea1787210
Koreas1428151
Beijing1390254
Xi Jinping1258200
Demilitarized Zone882106
Korean War87593
Lee Jae Myung844130
Waterford829120

Articles per day

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The hubs' circles share of each hub's 30 closest names that are also linked to this one

The eight most-named figures each have an inner circle: the thirty names most tied to them. This is how much of each circle this name is also tied to. A count of shared company in the coverage, nothing more.

Shared with Vladimir Putin: AFP, COVID-19, Cabinet, Congress, Defense, Defense Ministry, Democratic Party, Department of State, Donald Trump, Eastern, European Union, Foreign Ministry, G20, Google, Group, Intel, Interior, Interior Ministry, Lee, Lee Jae Myung.

The year 2655 articles on 84 days, 2025-10-12 to 2026-10-31 · weekly bars · 14 months on record

Left is a year ago, right is this week. Older days come from headlines only, so their counts run lower than live days.

Named together, month by month · by surprise, among that month's articles · names with a page

Stories that name Kim newest edition first · 40 shown

Names are found by a language model trained to spot them, joined to one spelling per person, and counted per article. The relations are the model's reading of the sources. Everything else is a count of who was written about together; it says nothing about why.