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North Koreans Losing Interest In Cult Of Kim?

North Korea’s state newspaper (Rodong Sinmun) and official news agency (KCNA) have released in recent years an average of at least 300 articles a month relating to the cult of Kim. In deifying Kim … [Read More...]

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South Korean Progressives Attack Park Geun-hye’s North Korea Policies

North Korea's launching of “projectiles” over the weekend triggered another round of denunciations and “concerned” responses from South Korea, the UN, and other parties. While these missiles … [Read More...]

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South Korean Progressives Attack Park Geun-hye’s North Korea Policies

North Korea's launching of “projectiles” over the weekend triggered another round of denunciations and “concerned” … [Read More...]

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Japan’s Iijima Visits North Korea: How To Read It

The corollary to Pyongyang's regular threats of war is that when it changes direction, confusion mounts on an international scale. … [Read More...]

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Why We Need a New Discourse on North Korea

“High politics” and “low politics”: as categories by which to judge the importance of an issue for national security and … [Read More...]

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Park Sang-hak on receiving the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent

Fighters for a Free North Korea (FFNK): "Our helium balloons are the recipients of the Václav Havel … [Read More...]

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North Korea resumes its distribution of food rations

The North Korean state seems to have reinstated the provision of food rations to ordinary North … [Read More...]

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The North Korean Soldiers’ National Holiday

April 25th marked the North Korea's People's Army Founding Day in domestic and international press; … [Read More...]

The entrance to Kim Il-sung University.

North Korean Universities are ‘Top-Class’

  The best South Korean Universities are 'Top-Tier'; the best North Korean Universities are … [Read More...]