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Documentary Video Inside North Korea – The World’s Most Secretive State

This documentary video takes the viewer inside of one of the world’s most repressive regimes. While internationally North Korea is known for bringing relations between it and the South to the brink, among human rights workers it is the most brutal regime on Earth. Individuality, freedom of expression, religion, or any basic human rights are […]

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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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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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 […]

Kwan-li-so: North Korea’s Gulag

While the nation celebrated 100 years since the birth of Eternal President Kim Il-sung the 15th of April this year, the pomp and circumstance masked yet another tragedy within the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that 23,000 North Koreans live in South Korea, including many former […]

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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 […]