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North Korea: Bribes determine execution, labor camps for South Korean media viewers

A report by an international human rights group has revealed that in North Korea, individuals caught watching South Korean ...
Amnesty International UK

North Korea: teenagers ‘executed for watching Squid Game’ as regime wages war on K-Drama and K-Pop

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Korean Strategic Culture of the last Eight Korean Nation States: Comparing the Past to Today’s North and South Variants

Executive Director’s Note: Robert Collins is a senior advisor for the Committee of Human Rights in North Korea. He has ...
The Diplomat

War Narratives in North Korea-Russia Cultural Diplomacy

As the popularity of Russian culture has declined in Western countries since 2022, Moscow has intensified its cultural ties with Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Russia opened the “Russian Seasons” ...

Peace with North Korea Is a fantasy, not pragmatism

Recognizing the immutable nature of the North Korean regime is not pessimism. It is realism -- what this moment demands of ...
SF Weekly

North Korea's Kim tours hot tubs, BBQ joints at lavish new mountain resort

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter opened a lavish new mountain resort complete with "cosy" leisure spaces, barbecue restaurants and hot tubs, state media said Tuesday. The new facility ...