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South Korean Navy Fires Warning Shots at North Korean Fishermen
The South Korean Navy has reported that it has fired warning shots at North Korean fishermen who wandered into South Korean territorial waters in the Yellow Sea. None of the shots fired hit any of the boats and all of the fishermen retreated back into North Korean sovereign territory. Confrontations between the North and the South […]
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Kim Jong-il’s Personal Sushi Chef Kenji Fujimoto Visits North Korea for the First Time in a Decade on the Personal Invitation of Kim Jong-un
Controversial former personal sushi chef to the late Dear Leader Kim Jong-il of North Korea, Kenji Fujimoto has entertained many readers with the lurid private details of Kim Jong-il’s private life since publishing his first-hand account of working for the Dear Leader in the world’s most secretive and repressive state. Recounting epic feasts and spending […]
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Russia Writes Off $10 Billion of North Korean Sovereign Debt
Making good on promises made with the late Kim Jong-il at a conference in Ulan-Ude, Siberia, Russia has announced today that it will forgive 90% of North Korea’s $11 billion dollar debt. While $10 billion will be written off immediately, another $1 billion will be spent toward mutual economic development projects. “The North Korean-Russian debt […]
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Does Kim Jong-un Signal a New Direction for North Korea?
Immediately following Kim Jong-il’s death, experts in international relations worried that the regime in North Korea would implode, leading to a massive humanitarian and political crisis. Instead, thus far, the opposite has occurred, with Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, Kim Jong-un, easily assuming control over the world’s last Stalinist state. Already the younger son’s reign is […]
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What a Day! North Korean Man Gets Drunk, Falls into Ocean, and Floats to Freedom in the South
Few things in life can really be called luck, but for one man from North Korea, an evening of drinking turned into a new life in South Korea. According to the Yonhap News Agency in South Korea, a North Korean man was found hiding in a civilian’s house in Ganghwa, west of Seoul. The man […]
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Pirates in North Korea? Chinese Fishermen Held Hostage in DPRK
A mix of 29 Chinese and North Korean fishermen were taken hostage by armed men on a gunboat while fishing in the Yellow Sea between the People’s Republic of China and the Korean peninsula. It was not immediately clear if the hostages were held by North Korean authorities or an unaffiliated group. Thus far there […]
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Kwan-li-so: North Korea’s Gulag
While the nation celebrated 100 years since the birth of Eternal President Kim Il-sung the 15th of April this year, the pomp and circumstance masked yet another tragedy within the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that 23,000 North Koreans live in South Korea, including many former […]
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The Juche Dynasty: North Korea and the Heirs of Kim Il-sung
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s first speech to the public has drawn the hermit kingdom back into the spotlight with a focus on his youth and deadly nuclear arsenal. Propaganda in North Korea has raised the youngest Kim to the heights of supreme status shared only by his father, the late Kim Jong-il, and grandfather, the […]
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Is North Korea Secretly Testing Nuclear Weapons for Iran?
Reports emerge that link the reclusive communist dictatorship in East Asia to the Islamic Republic of Iran and they conclude that not only is North Korea helping Iran develop nuclear weapons but also secretly testing those weapons for them. A security briefing in the Congressional Quarterly asserts that the D.P.R.K. may have tested two nuclear devices […]
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Any Person Caught Defecting from North Korea During the Official Mourning Period for Dear Leader Kim Jong-il will have: ‘Three Generations of Their Family Executed’
The totalitarian regime of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has promised death to three generations of kinsmen for any person caught trying to escape from the Stalinist state during the official mourning period for former leader Kim Jong-il who died in December 2011. It is well-known that defectors from North Korea captured by Chinese […]
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