Introducing The North Korea Book Store
It sure seems like 2015 is the year of the North Korea book. There have already been a number of high profile autobiographies by defectors and journalists and specialists continue…
General News
Clocks will go back 30 minutes for Pyongyang Time
North Korea will next week take the unusual step of creating its own time zone by shifting clocks back by 30 minutes. Pyongyang Time is being created by a decree…
‘The North Korean posters that got me arrested for espionage’
Willem van der Bijl owns the largest collection of DPRK propaganda pictures outside the country. Were they worth going to prison for? By Maeve Shearlaw, The Guardian Enthusiastic philatelist Willem van…
North Korea in 360 degrees
Film-maker Aram Pan’s new video gives viewers control over where they look to provide an alternative to the carefully staged images often seen By The Guardian A young girl performs…
More on UN meeting, silencing of DPRK microphone
I now have the full video of the incident on Thursday at the United Nations when a North Korean diplomat interrupted a discussion on human rights. It would be funny…
DPRK diplomat disrupts Human Rights meeting
A North Korean delegate interrupted an event being held at the United Nations on Thursday that was focusing on Human Rights in the DPRK. The event was organized by the…
TV Review: Hidden State: Inside North Korea
Al Jazeera’s “Fault Lines” takes on North Korea in its latest episode, scheduled for broadcast on Al Jazeera America on January 19, 2015, at 9pm ET. The 30-minute program called…
Pyongyang is booming, but in North Korea all is not what it seems
Kim Jong-un’s regime is not coming in from the cold just yet, and an increasingly prosperous capital stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the country
North Korea: ‘popular masses enjoy genuine human rights’
Pyongyang issues 50,000 word report hitting back at international criticism of its human rights record, accusing the west of ‘false and reactionary’ agenda to interfere with state sovereignty. Embed from…
