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Australia Shuts Its Doors to North Korean Refugees

Due to changing laws, North Korean refugees in Australia are being deported to South Korea. Because South Korea considers all of the citizens of North Korea as citizens of South Korea, Australia, too, accepts this position and will not be deporting the refugees who have settled in Australia back to the DPRK. Still, some North […]

North Korea Takes Pride in Its Human Rights Record, Disregarding United Nations (UN) Reports of State-Sponsored Horror

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) rejected a United Nations (UN) monitor’s report about the daily horrors that face citizens in North Korea. The delegation from the DPRK asserted their confidence in the North Korean social system and dismissed the special rapporteur Marzuki Darusman’s claims of political prison camps and forced labor, among other […]

North Korea Releases ‘Arirang,’ It’s Own Version of Apple’s Vaunted iPad

North Korean state media, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), reports that the nation’s Pyongyang Information Technology Bureau has developed the DPRK’s first tablet computer, the Arirang. Certainly the world has many questions about the device, among which might include: How does a nation prone to famine and trapped in the 1960s create a tablet computer? […]

Ahn Chul-soo: South Korea’s Kingmaker?

A software entrepreneur and noted philanthropist Ahn Chul-soo announced he would seek the South Korean presidency in a news conference inside a Salvation Army kitchen in Seoul. Ahn is the third candidate to have declared in the race thus far and he is expected to shake up the political landscape quite a bit. He’s popular […]

Pak Jong Suk’s Unlikey Odyssey: One Defector’s Journey from North Korea to South Korea and Back Again

Rarely does a defector from the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea return to the North, but the case of Pak Jong Suk is a curious one: Having defected from the North in 2006, Pak has returned from South Korea to the DPRK a propaganda star for the regime. The 66-year old returnee is described […]

North Korean Military Parade to Announce Kim Jong-un

The above video was taken during the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s largest military parade ever held in order to signal that Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, current leader Kim Jong-un, was to succeed his father as the head of history’s only communist dynasty. [The Guardian]

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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 […]