Hacker group Anonymous is no match for North Korea
Anonymous, the informal hacker collective that often targets groups or countries it sees as enemies of Internet freedom, has gone after everyone from MasterCard to the Vatican. But the group seems...
View ArticleNorth Korean video lambastes U.S. ‘plunder wiretap’ surveillance programs
North Korea has belatedly weighed in on the U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden, releasing a video on Sunday that skewers “America’s illegal spying activity”...
View ArticleHere’s the creepy wax statue of Kim Jong Il that was a formal gift from China
If you happen to find yourself in Pyongyang on July 27, the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, you’ll want to avoid the official unveiling of China’s gift marking the occasion: a life-size wax statue...
View ArticleThe bizarre story of a North Korean ship detained in the Panama Canal
When Panama detained a North Korea-flagged ship on its way through the canal from Cuba, Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli flew into action. A video from inside the ship shows Martinelli...
View ArticleEverything you wanted to know about the military technology on that N. Korean...
One question surrounding the North Korean ship that was stopped in Panama, which found it to be illegally transporting military components after leaving Cuba, is whether this equipment is laughably...
View ArticleIkea may open a West Bank store, but decides against North Korea
Swedish furniture mega-chain Ikea has stores in 42 countries, from Europe to the Middle East to East Asia, with plans to expand into, among others, Indonesia and Egypt. But the chain might be...
View ArticleThat North Korean ship caught ferrying weapons is also full of bees
Authorities in Panama could not possibly have known what they were getting into when they detained a North Korean ship passing through the canal. They suspected the ship, which had departed from Cuba,...
View ArticleNorth Korean media make an odd claim about Panama
Two weeks after Panama detained a North Korean ship for illegally transporting hidden military equipment, apparently taken out of Cuba, North Korea’s state news agency put out a very strange article...
View ArticleBehind the spectacle, the ugly truth about North Korea’s ‘mass games’
The grandeur of North Korea’s annual Arirang or “mass games” celebration really is something to behold. Tens of thousands of performers dance and march with smiling precision across the world’s largest...
View ArticleThis is what it looks like if you drive through downtown Pyongyang
With so many foreign visitors and media organizations flooding into North Korea for its annual “mass games” celebration, a time when the showcase capital is at its most prim and prepped, it’s worth...
View ArticleKim Jong Un inspects North Korea’s first smartphone, an Android clone
North Korea has unveiled its new smartphone, the “Arirang,” an Android clone named after a famous Korean folk song that’s also something of a national anthem. Leader Kim Jong Un visited the factory to...
View ArticleHow North Korea got itself hooked on meth
A new study published in the journal North Korea Review says that parts of North Korea are experiencing a crystal meth “epidemic,” with an “upsurge” of recreational meth use and accompanying addiction...
View ArticleWatch Vice’s HBO show on the Dennis Rodman trip to North Korea, propaganda...
Several months after the buccaneering media network Vice sponsored a February trip by Dennis Rodman and some Harlem Globetrotters to North Korea as part of an HBO mini-documentary, you can now watch...
View ArticleU.S. intel ‘black budget’ concedes ‘critical’ ignorance on North Korea, other...
The United States intelligence community’s “black budget,” which spells out its spending programs and is revealed in an article by Post reporters Barton Gellman, Greg Miller and Julie Tate, seems to...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s nuclear program may now be self-sufficient. Why that’s scary.
After years of relying on foreign-made technology to develop its nuclear weapons program, North Korea appears to have figured out how to make that equipment at home, according to an alarming report by...
View ArticleCosmetic eye surgery costs only $3 in North Korea, but it’s punished with...
"To the girls who were not born with double-eyelids, double-eyelid surgery is a little magic granting their wishes to be prettier," North Korean defector Mina Yoon writes in her most recent column for...
View ArticleNorth Korea calls Switzerland’s refusal to sell it ski lifts a ‘serious human...
North Korea, long pegged as perhaps the world's worst human rights abuser, accused Europe of committing "serious human rights abuse" for refusing to sell ski lifts to the Hermit Kingdom. That's...
View ArticleNorth Korea just built the creepiest water park you’ve ever seen
North Korea opened a shiny new water park in east Pyongyang this week, to characteristically over-the-top fanfare. The official unveiling ceremony included the chiefs of the armed forces and top...
View ArticleNorth Korea may have secretly engineered computer games to launch mass cyber...
Some free-to-use computer games may secretly be North Korean plants, South Korea's national police agency warned Tuesday, according to South Korean media. The seemingly innocent games, designed to...
View ArticleVideo: Meet the world’s first professional Kim Jong Un impersonator
A Hong Kong resident named Howard has taken it upon himself to professionally mimic North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a transformation chronicled in this video by the British media outfit Barcroft TV....
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