How North Korean News Media Covered Kim Jong Un's Gigantic Election Victory
Unsurprisingly, North Korea claimed voters in the country unanimously re-elected"supreme leader" Kim Jong-un after heading to the polls Sunday. State news agency KCNA marked the momentous occasion with...
View ArticleNorth Korea Uses Its Embassies For Illegal Weapons Trades [Report]
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has developed sophisticated ways to circumvent United Nations sanctions, including the suspected use of its embassies to facilitate an illegal trade in weapons, a United...
View Article5 Reasons Why Skiing In North Korea Might Secretly Be Awesome
North Korea opened its much-hyped Masik Pass ski area this winter.The resort, in the rugged, mountainous east, has 11 ski runs. It also boasts an ornate, abundantly pillared hotel, with a swimming...
View ArticleChina Is Shielding North Korea From Prosecution Over Mass Torture And Killing
GENEVA (Reuters) - China dismissed a U.N. report alleging North Korea has committed crimes against humanity on Monday, effectively confirming the fears of human rights advocates that Beijing will...
View ArticleUN: North Korea Is As Bad As The Nazis; 'No Excuse' For Refusing To Act
North Korea's regime has committed crimes as chilling as those of the Nazis, South Africa's apartheid regime or Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and must be stopped, the head of a UN inquiry said on...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Founder Wrote An Anti-American Children's Story — Here Are The...
Brainwashing the next generation is a big deal in North Korea, where two former supreme leaders authored propaganda-filled children's books, as uncovered by Sydney University researcher Christopher...
View ArticleSouth Korea Urges North Korea To Stop 'Provocative' Missile Tests
North Korea test-fired 30 short-range missiles into the sea on Saturday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, the latest in a series of launches despite calls from Seoul and Washington to stop...
View ArticleAn AP Photographer Is Capturing Life In North Korea On His Instagram Account
David Guttenfelder, the Associated Press' chief photographer in Asia, has been posting pictures documenting life in North Korea.Last year, North Korea's primary local service provider Koryolink began...
View ArticleNorth Korea Is Asia's Hottest Property Market
One of the world's fastest developing property markets is also in one of its least likely places - North Korea.Even though the buying and selling of houses and apartments is illegal, it is becoming...
View ArticleNorth Korea Flaunts Ballistic Missiles As Japan And South Korea Meet
US President Barack Obama brought together the sparring leaders of Japan and South Korea last night – but it was North Korea, thousands of miles away, that may have played the biggest role in helping...
View ArticleNorth Korea Calls South Korean President 'Blabbering Peasant Woman' In...
North Korea issued a scathing personal attack Thursday on South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, accusing her of breaking a moratorium on cross-border insults and behaving like a "blabbering" peasant...
View ArticleNorth Korea To UN On Human Rights: 'Mind Your Own Business'
GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea's ambassador told the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to "mind your own business" during a debate on crimes against humanity documented in his country by...
View ArticleNorth Korea Threatens A 'New Kind Of Nuclear Test'
North Korea threatened on Sunday to conduct what it called "a new form of nuclear test", raising the level of rhetoric after members of the United Nations Security Council condemned the North's recent...
View ArticleSouth Korea Will No Longer Exercise Restraint In Responding To The North's...
As my colleague J.T. reported earlier today, North Korea and South Korea exchanged fire across their maritime border, the Northern Limit Line (NLL).As J.T. explained:“South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency...
View ArticleSouth Korea Finds Crashed Surveillance Drone Suspected From North Korea
South Korea said Tuesday it had recovered an unidentified drone that crashed on one of its border islands the same day that North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire across their disputed maritime...
View ArticleThe Logo For North Korea's Space Agency Looks Like A Blatant Ripoff From NASA
North Korea's space agency has revealed its new logo, and it looks very similar to the logo of NASA, The Guardian reports.The National Aerospace Development Administration, or NADA, showed off its new...
View ArticleHere's The Military Exercise That Has North Korea Freaking Out
A joint military exercise between the U.S. and South Korea has freaked out North Korean leadership.The annual drill, named Foal Eagle, runs from Feb. 24 to April 18 and features Marines from both...
View ArticleEscaped North Korean Intelligence Official Describes The Paranoia Driving...
The official described how assassination attempts on Kim Jong-il, the country's leader until three years ago, drove the country's feared internal security apparatus to take elaborate measures against...
View ArticleNorth Korea Slander Reaches New Low After Calling South Korea's President A...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea published comments on Friday attacking South Korean President Park Geun-hye, descending to unprecedented levels of personal insult by describing her as a "repulsive wench"...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Huge Role In Global Meth Trade Revealed In Insane Case...
At first glance, the meeting that occurred on January 24, 2013 could have been about any ordinary business deal. A multinational organization based in Hong Kong had cornered the market on a lucrative...
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