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The Internet in the DPRK: How North Korea’s Intranet Reinforces National Isolation

Stories 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 […]

Music

유키스 U-KISS – Light It Up

From Wikipedia: U-KISS (Korean: 유키스, Japanese: ユーキス) is a South Korean boy band formed by NH Media in 2008. Their name is an acronym, standing for Ubiquitous Korean International idol Super Star. The group consists of Soohyun, Kiseop, Eli, Kevin, Dongho, Hoon and AJ (the latter two joining the group in 2011). Their breakthrough hit was Man Man Ha Ni (2009) from their EP ContiUKiss. They released their first full-length album Only One on February 3, 2010. In September 2011, […]

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 […]

The Yellow Sea between North and South Korea

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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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What a Day! North Korean Man Gets Drunk, Falls into Ocean, and Floats to Freedom in the South

Few things in life can really be called luck, but for one man from North Korea, an evening of drinking turned into a new life in South Korea. According to the Yonhap News Agency in South Korea, a North Korean man was found hiding in a civilian’s house in Ganghwa, west of Seoul. The man […]