Those photos of young Kim Jong Un performing in ‘Grease’ are probably of his...
The Sun, a British tabloid, has published what it says are images of a school-age Kim Jong Un hanging out at his Swiss boarding school. One photo appears to show him performing in a production of...
View ArticleReport: China may be shutting down some tourism into North Korea
The official tourism board in Dandong, China, a common transit point into North Korea, will not allow Chinese tourists to enter the country as of Wednesday, according to the North Korea-focused news...
View ArticleChart: Americans are more interested in North Korea than Beyonce or Obama...
U.S. Web users are searching for information about North Korea with astounding, unprecedented frequency, The Washington Post’s Chico Harlan reports today. Google searches for “North Korea” are seven...
View ArticlePoll shows Americans are obsessed with North Korea, overstate its threat
U.S. Web users are searching for information about North Korea with astounding, unprecedented frequency. Google searches for “North Korea,” currently seven times the previous peak during the country’s...
View ArticleHow seriously should you take that scary intelligence report about North...
We all became something of amateur intelligence analysts, whether we wanted to be or not, the moment that Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) read, during a session of the House Armed Services Committee, a...
View ArticleVideo: North Korea threatens to strike Colorado Springs but doesn’t know...
The latest ridiculous North Korean propaganda video includes threats to launch that nation’s (untested) KN-08 missiles at four U.S. cities: Washington, Colorado Springs, Colo., Los Angeles and...
View ArticleCan the U.S. widen the gap between China and North Korea?
In mid-March, when the United States first announced that it would dramatically expand missile defense batteries in Alaska and California, the explanation puzzled a number of analysts. According to...
View ArticleDespite harsh words for North Korea, China deepens economic ties
One of several reasons that North Korea can get away with such bad behavior is that it receives crucial economic and political support from China. That’s why the United States, which has few ways left...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s official response to Boston bombing cites conspiracy site World...
Narcissism comes in many forms, but one of them is interpreting all events as primarily important for how they affect or otherwise relate to you. The North Korean state news agency has finally turned...
View ArticleHere’s North Korea’s new official song, with creepy music video
North Korean state media, the gift that keeps giving, has released a new official song to rally the country behind leader Kim Jong Un and his latest policy. The song, “Let’s Go Forward,” features...
View ArticleHere’s how Kim Jong Un probably translated Dennis Rodman’s ‘do me a solid’ tweet
Dennis Rodman, the American basketball star who made a bizarre trip to North Korea in February, where he actually met and spent time with leader Kim Jong Un, has tweeted a request for Kim. Rodman asked...
View ArticleMystery surrounds North Korea’s bizarre decision to grant top military honor...
North Korea’s latest mystery is a weird one: Why did the country hand its highest honor, typically reserved for military heroics or nuclear weapons breakthroughs, to a traffic cop? They’re one of the...
View ArticleNorth Korean ‘traffic girl’ may have won military award for saving Kim Jong...
North Korea caused even more bafflement than usual when, on Wednesday, it announced that a lowly traffic cop would receive the state’s highest honor, a medal called “The Hero of the Republic.” The...
View ArticleIs this the documentary that got a U.S. citizen sentenced to hard labor in...
In November, North Korean officials arrested an American citizen named Kenneth Bae who was on what was supposed to be a five-day guided tour of the North Korean city of Rason. Bae was charged with...
View ArticleDennis Rodman returning to N. Korea to free Kenneth Bae: Could it actually work?
When a TMZ reporter confronted former basketball star Dennis Rodman on the street to ask whether he still communicates with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whom he met in a February trip to the hermit...
View ArticleNorth Korea condemns media freedom but praises two U.S. reporters
How does North Korea celebrate World Press Freedom Day? First of all, two weeks late, on May 15 rather than May 3, presumably (and tellingly) because that’s how long it took to get around to it. But...
View ArticleAmerican held in North Korea had pledged to ‘collapse’ country with prayer
Earlier this month, North Korean state media finally revealed the country’s case against an American citizen named Kenneth Bae, who had been detained there since November. They listed three...
View ArticleNorth Korea seeking to deepen ties with far-away Uganda
North Korean officials visiting Uganda have signed deals to provide police training, security hardware such as tear gas and even housing construction, according to a report by the independent news site...
View ArticleReport: Kim Jong Un handing out copies of ‘Mein Kampf’ to senior North Korean...
Senior North Korean officials received copies of “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler’s rambling prison memoir, as gifts for Kim Jong Un’s birthday this January, according to a report by New Focus International,...
View Article‘Hope brought me to America’: A North Korean defector tells his inspiring story
Joseph Kim’s story begins with the North Korean famine, which first descended on the country in 1994, when he was 4 years old, and would eventually kill as much as 10 percent of the population. By the...
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