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Should the World Send Food Aid to North Korea?
Should the world reconsider its food aid to North Korea? VICE’s food blog, Munchies, examines the situation from the position of analyzing the DPRK’s diplomatic stance as like that of a school bully who threatens in order to obtain good from the United Nations and world aid organizations. Overall an interesting look into one of […]
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US Citizen Matthew Miller Sentenced to 6 Years Hard Labor by DPRK Supreme Court
Convicted of espionage against the state, US citizen and Bakersfield, California resident, 24-year-old Matthew Miller was sentenced to six years of hard labor by the Supreme Court of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea. Miller allegedly destroyed his tourist visa and requested asylum in North Korea upon arrival in Pyongyang. He was arrested and detained […]
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American Seeking Asylum in North Korea May End Up Imprisoned in the DPRK
US citizen Matthew Todd Miller may end up imprisoned in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea failing an intervention by US or US-allied authorities on his behalf according to a report from CNN. Miller allegedly entered the DPRK on a tourist visa that he also allegedly destroyed while declaring that he wanted asylum in North […]
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The Elite Martial Arts Division of the DPRK’s Korean People’s Army (KPA)
Nothing like smashing some bricks with your face to show the world you mean business when it comes to threatening East Asia with nuclear armageddon. Of course, Kim Jong un’s leadership and genius has inspired these feats of martial madness and the announcer’s always and forever excited voice can’t help but imbue it all with […]
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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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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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