Often the People’s Republic of China takes a lenient stance towards its ally the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is why it was surprising that China signed a UNSC resolution condemning North Korea’s missile tests and authorizing the imposition of further sanctions on the regime in Pyongyang. China’s willingness to rein in its […]
Read MoreThe once dominant portraits of Marx and Lenin that were featured alongside a portrait of Eternal President Kim Il-Sung in Kim Il-sung Square (김일성광장) were removed in October 2012 and have not been replaced. The pictures feature prominently in North Korean military parades and were visible ties to its Soviet-satellite past. North Korea […]
Read MoreIn a change of tone, official state media outlets in the PRC are criticizing North Korea’s latest round of bellicose posturing, threatening aid cuts if the DPRK proceeds with yet another nuclear test. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s main ally, China, has criticized the regime through official media outlets after North Korea threatened the United […]
Read MoreIn Pyongyang’s most challenging declaration yet, the world’s most isolated state announced that it would continue its provocative nuclear tests and missile tests with its target being the DPRK’s avowed enemy, the United States. Ever since the death of Dear Leader Kim Jong–il in 2011, the regime in Pyongyang was consumed with establishing his […]
Read MoreA recent report by a United States Senate Republican committee speculates that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) could prevent any potential reunification of North Korea and South Korea in the event that the Kim family is thrown out of power or the government of the DPRK collapses. Of course, such a scenario is not entirely implausible […]
Read MoreAmerican intelligence agencies discovered North Korea (DPRK) is currently in the process of transferring many mobile missile launching pads to different locations across the country, many of which are capable of launching a new generation of mobile missile, the North Korean KN–08. The reports suggest that North Korea’s missile capabilities are advancing at a more rapid pace […]
Read MoreAs his first year as Supreme Leader concludes, analysts have an overall mixed reaction to Kim Jong-un’s style of leadership. Promises of economic reform, innovations in propaganda that has made it more outward facing in nature, and the introduction of a first family with his marriage to Ri Sol-ju are just three of the highlights of the newest Kim’s first year. While the […]
Read MoreA report recently released by Navi Pillay, the United Nation’s chief human rights official, claims more than 200,000 people are incarcerated in political prison camps (kwan-li-so) in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The kwan-li-so are places where torture, rape and slave labour are common. It is believed that the scale of the crimes committed in North Korea amount to crimes against humanity. Because of […]
Read MoreStories of repression in the DPRK are nothing new, with numerous accounts of prison work camps, political re-education, and the thorough repression of individualism at the altar of state indoctrination regularly pouring out of the Republic of Korea’s northern brother. That is why some may find it shocking to learn that North Korea has set […]
Read MoreNorth 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? […]
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