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Pyongyang Chain of Restaurants – A Little Bit of North Korea in Franchise Form
Of all the places you would expect to find a North Korean-owned chain restaurant called Pyongyang, Cambodia may make the short list of least likely locales to host yet another of the DPRK’s exotic, quixotic, or just down-right odd attempts at propaganda. These restaurants serve traditional Korean fare and feature beautiful and talented waitresses that […]
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Headline News May 13, 2014: South Korea Ups Rhetoric with North, France Sells Russia Ships, Donetsk Declares Independence
South Korean Defense Ministry Says North Korea Exists Solely for Kim Jong-un and Must Disappear Wreck of Spanish Explorer Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria Discovered France to Sell Russia Warships 2/3 of India’s Electorate Vote in World’s Largest Democracy World Health Organization: Alcohol Cause of 1 in 20 Deaths Canada Orders Extradition of ‘Honor Killing’ Murder […]
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A North Korean Defector Wants to Return to the DPRK? Strange But True
While most stories focus on how awful a place the DPRK is, oddly, there are some cases of refugees from the DPRK who want to return to North Korea. Due to a myriad of reasons, from missing family in the North to failure to integrate successfully into South Korean society, a very few North Koreans […]
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Dennis Rodman Loves Traveling to North Korea
An apparently chummy relationship between Kim Jong-un and Dennis Rodman deepens as the controversial former NBA basketball player travels again to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to visit Pyongyang and take in the sites in one of east Asia’s most brutal dictatorships. Apparently either ignorant of the human rights situation in North Korea […]
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Sports
Champion Weight Lifter Hailed In Pyongyang With South Korean National Anthem
An international weight lifting competition in North Korea, unusual in and of itself, was further transformed into a peculiar spectacle when a champion weight lifter from South Korea stood atop the winner’s podium as the national anthem of the Republic of Korea was played in the heart of the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic […]
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Arcade Games Arrive in North Korea
Changes in the DPRK are slow to come but there are a few small glimmers of hope that the despotic regime will be slightly less despotic under leader Kim Jong-un: namely, reports of an arcade in Pyongyang are discordant with images the regime has painted of itself in the past. Under Kim Jong-il, the current […]
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Imprisoned in North Korea, American Kenneth Bae Gravely Ill
The imprisoned American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae, serving 15 years of hard labor for subversive activities against the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is reportedly ‘gravely ill’ according to his family. He is too weak to work, according to statements by his sister, Terri Chung. It was alleged by the DPRK […]
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