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by Tad Farrell When walking around Kim Il Sung's mausoleum at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, visitors are given special headsets to listen to a recorded guide of the facility.

by Mark P. Barry The first (non-communist) Americans to meet North Korea’s president Kim Il Sung likely were journalists Harrison Salisbury of The New York Times, and Selig Harrison, then

Friday 13th April 2012 at 7:39am is a date and time which will hang heavy on the shoulders of many North Koreans for a long time to come.

By Matthew McGrath On Wednesday April 11th some 50 like-minded individuals gathered together in a conference room in the Atreon building in Shinchon downtown Seoul. The common thread that brought

by Jonathan Spaar Much has been made of the fact that, like most dictatorships, North Korea in many ways resembles a “mafia state”:  brutally enforced centralized power, grossly distorted

Over recent months the defector repatriation issue has jumped to the top of the agenda for many DPRK experts and the press. A surge of protests against Chinese

Last week The Daily NK, an online newspaper dedicated to covering North Korea from a human rights perspective, suffered a Malware attack.  It was by no means the first

There are a number of films and movies on the topic of North Korea, some of which are excellent, others of which leave a lot to be desired.