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Media Lens: Good Rockets, Bad Rockets

India and North Korea both launched rockets within the space of a week – to staggeringly different responses from the international community. MediaLens.org investigate.

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Information Freedom in North Korea – Chris Green

On May 9th, Chris Green from The Daily NK spoke about information freedom activities in North Korea for NKnet’s speaker series on North Korean human rights.  He began

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Spurious Statistics or Spurious Journalism?

by David Slatter Most of us understand reporting on North Korea can be difficult. The majority of internal information is considered a state secret, media access is extremely limited,

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Report: The Impact of Foreign Media in North Korea

by Tad Farrell On May 10, InterMedia Associate Director Nathaniel Kretchun delivered a presentation on the changing media environment of North Korea, suggesting that the presence of unsanctioned foreign

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The Human Rights Movement in South Korea

by Matthew McGrath On May 2, the fourth installment of NK net’s Human Rights lecture series featured Kim Sang-heon, the founder and current chairman of the Database Center for

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Lankov on Reform in North Korea

by Matthew McGrath On April 25th, NK Net’s third lecture in their North Korea Human Rights speaker series featured the well-known North Korea watcher and commentator, Dr. Andrei Lankov.

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Doing Business in the DPRK: A Personal Perspective

Recent signs of progress and reform slowly emerging from within the DPRK such as the "leap day deal" have been hampered by the North Korea's Unha-3 rocket launch

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North Korea Did Not Spend $15 Developing Their Website

by Tad Farrell UPDATE  01 MAY NOON: Wired.com have now corrected and amended the original article. Thanks to Editor Noah for taking the time to do so. UPDATE 30 APRIL

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Is There a Connection Between North Korean Rhetoric and Action?

By Chad O’Carroll North Korea continues to ratchet up its belligerent rhetoric against South Korea, this week threatening to destroy a range of South Korean targets including the Blue

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Kwang Chol-hwan on Developments in North Korea

by Matthew McGrath, Seoul On April 18th, NKnet invited former gulag prisoner Mr. Kang Chol-hwan to speak about recent political and social developments in North Korea. Kang is known