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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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Documentary
The Turkmenbashi Cult of Personality in Turkmenistan
With a personality cult to rival that of Kim Jong-un’s in North Korea, Turkmenistan’s Turkmenbashi has built a comprehensive system of secular adulation centered on his life and his teachings as embodied in his various proclamations, speeches, and writings, most famous among which is the Ruhnama. Having elevated himself to the position of secular god […]
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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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The Purge of Jang Song-thaek: Kim Jong-un Consolidates His Power As Top Officials Purged in Largest State Show Trials Since Kim Il Sung’s Purge of the Domestic Faction in 1955
- December 25, 2013
- China
- Choe Ryong-hae. methamphetamine
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- DPRK
- Economics
- Economy
- Jang Song Thaek
- Kim Dynasty
- Kim Il-sung
- Kim Jong-il
- Kim Jong-Un
- Kim Kyong-hui
- Kim Won-hong
- Korea
- Nam Jae-joon
- North Korea
- Paektu line
- People's Republic of China
- PRC
- purge
- South Korea
- South Korea National Intelligence Service
- trade
Possible turmoil in the DPRK as reports are swirling about the execution of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un’s uncle and nominal second-in-command of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. A full-scale purge is believed to be underway as thirty-year-old Kim Jong Un seeks to eliminate factionalism within North Korea to consolidate his nascent rule […]
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Kim Jong Un Attempts to Project Unity During Kim Jong Il Memorial
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attempted to project an image of unity in the wake of his uncle and nominal DPRK second-in-command Jang Song Thaek’s execution following a laundry list of charges against him including such dubious charges as moral dissipation to plotting to overthrow the regime in Pyongyang and disrupt the “monolithic operation […]
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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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