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Had you have taken a direct flight from London to Seoul yesterday afternoon, by the time you would have landed you might have been none the wiser that...
Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has long been confined to her brother’s not-insignificant shadow. But, in recent...
It surely comes as no surprise to hear that North Korea does not like the United Nations. The hermit kingdom has long derided the organisation as...
When Kim Jong Un does not get what he wants, he makes his displeasure known far and wide. Over the past few weeks, one would have thought that Kim...
Labour’s first 100 days in power have been nothing short of a disaster. Whether the beneath contemptible decision to shelve the Higher Education...
Hermit kingdoms usually keep themselves to themselves, but now, North Korea is reinventing the moniker by which it has long been known. The country...
If you visit South Korea, you may be startled at the presence of road signs pointing towards Kaesong and Pyongyang: two destinations that many of...
The sight of a grimacing Kim Jong Un on board an inflatable rubber dinghy is not what one would expect from the leader of a country which has...
When dealing with North Korea, it’s important not just to look at what the regime says about its present and future policies. Arguably more...
As Vladimir Putin prepares to land in Pyongyang for his first visit to North Korea in 24 years, this second meeting of the two dictators in under a...
North Korea has long been known for its rhetorical braggadocio. Most of the time, the regime’s bluster needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. But...
Think of North Korean propaganda and you might think of old-fashioned revolutionary marches praising the Supreme Leader, denouncing the United States,...
Recently, it was reported that North Korean animators may have been working on cartoon projects for western firms, including Amazon and HBO. Data...
The threat North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme poses to the world is well known. But as the hermit kingdom actively expands its weapons arsenal,...
Alan Titchmarsh presumably did not expect to see his programme Garden Secrets, filmed in 2010, air on North Korean state television this week. He...
South Korean voters will be among the more than four billion people going to the polls this year. With a huge potential range of outcomes, North Korea...
Crying in public is something we tend to associate with the North Korean people rather than their rulers – who are often described as having a...
North Korea is hardly the first country that comes to mind when you think of elections. Yet since the inception of the Democratic People’s Republic...