The United States and Japan will be conducting a thorough review of their joint security arrangements after the election of Shinzo Abe returned the US-friendly Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党) to power in Tokyo. Amid worsening tensions with China over the Senkaku Islands(尖閣諸島)/Diaoyu Islands (釣魚台列嶼), and the spectre of a nuclear North Korea capable of […]
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 MoreHot on the heels of North Korea’s discovery of a unicorn den comes exciting news for fans of Norse lore: The kraken, the heretofore mythical beast capable of swallowing men and boats whole, was filmed by Edie Widder and her team, providing the world with its first extensive glimpse of the creature. In order to capture […]
Read MoreThe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea expressed optimism after comments from newly elected South Korean President Park Chung-hee indicated a willingness on the part of the Republic of Korea to engage in talks and closer diplomatic relations with its northern neighbor. After her election to the presidency, Park has announced she will pursue a more aggressive […]
Read MoreNK News has an excellent article about an obscure story out of North Korea about a Palestinian woman born of in vitro fertilization while her parents were diplomats in Pyongyang. Because of Kim Jong-il’s intervention in aiding the couple to conceive a child, she was named by Kim Jong-il and called ‘the flower of North […]
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 MoreThe Japanese Self Defense Forces are exploring the use of drones in early missile launch detection and interception. The idea was spurred by the failure of North Korea to launch its missile in April. The current Japanese early warning system, an array of systems comprised of satellites, aegis cruisers, and ground based radar, was unable […]
Read MoreDue 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
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