North Korea News Today

Bellicose Language Erupts Out of North Korean State Media Ahead of Kim Jong-un’s Planned Trip to the DMZ

North Korean State Media reports that the military is on high-alert preceding Kim Jong-un’s first trip to the DMZ since his father Dear Leader Kim Jong-il’s death in December. Analysts call this ‘language for an internal audience’ and downplay fears that South Korea-U.S. war games will actually provoke conflict. New North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has […]

Kim Jong-Un Assumes Control of Party, State and Army in North Korea.

Kim Jong-Il’s youngest son, Kim Jong-Un, has assumed control of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in a ceremony officially marking the transfer of power and the continuation of the Kim Dynasty. Kim Yong-Nam, former number two in the North Korean regime under Kim Jong-Il, has declared before a crowd in Pyongyang that the regime […]

North Korea Rattles Its Saber at South Korea Over Wargames.

South Korea’s staging of wargames exercises on Yeonpyeong Island one year after the North’s artillery bombardment of the island has provoked the belligerent hermit state to issue a threat of a “sea of fire” upon the South if it does not cease its provocative exercises immediately. The attack on Yeonpyeong Island over one year ago […]

An Oft Forgotten Threat: North Korea’s Chemical and Biological Weapons.

International attention is often focused on nuclear weapons development. Whether it is Iran or North Korea, the common concern typically centers around this very specific type of weapon of mass destruction, even when considering the threats posed to domestic security by terrorism. Chemical based weapons (CBW) and biological weapons (BW) pose as much as a […]

North Koreans in Libya Cannot Come Home for Fear of Importing Revolution.

Libya and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea were quite friendly prior to the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. Now that Gaddafi’s dictatorship has joined the likes of Ozymandias, Kim Jong-il is wary to have those North Koreans return, most of whom were sent abroad to Libya and elsewhere to work on anything from […]

The Mangyongdae Funfair in North Korea: Even Amusement Parks Become Instruments of State Terror in North Korea.

I stumbled upon this blog Kuriositas which was featuring a great article about Mangyongdae fun fair in North Korea, one of the last amusement parks in North Korea. Needless to say, like most things in North Korea, Mangyongdae fun fair is a horrible place to have to visit even if it is the only one […]

North Korea’s Two Tier Economy.

The World Affairs article, “The Defector’s Tale: Inside North Korea’s Secret Economy,” by Kim Kwang Jin provides a rare first-hand account of how the economy of the world’s most enigmatic totalitarian state, North Korea, actually works. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990’s brought devastation to the largely dependent, and derivative, North Korean […]

Chinese Journal Offers Rare Glimpse of the North Korean First Family.

The journal World Affairs, published biweekly by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, revealed such interesting tidbits as Kim Il-sung’s having died upon learning of the death of a comrade and his pursuit of nuclear weapons since the 1950’s. Kim Il-sung, father of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, is revered in North Korea as the Eternal […]

North Korean Assassination Plot Foiled in South Korea, Activist Park Sang-hak alive, well, and protesting like hell.

An ex-commando North Korean assassin by the name of Ahn has been foiled in his attempt to poison anti-North Korean activist Park Sang-hak in South Korea. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service is credited with saving Park Sang-hak from the assassination plot. Chairman of the Freedom Fighters of North Korea, Park is an outspoken and vehement […]

Ultimate Frisbee flings itself into North Korea.

After mastering the sport upon his first try, Dear Leader of North Korea deemed Ultimate Frisbee fit for trial in North Korea. Ultimate Frisbee players from around the world gathered in Pyongyang this past Sunday to demonstrate the sport to the citizens of North Korea selected for their ideological purity. Apparently the crowd had fun, […]