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South Korea-North Korea Relations: Plumbing the Depths, by Aidan Foster-Carter

Covering inter-Korean relations for Comparative Connections throughout the past decade hasbeen a roller-coaster ride, given the peninsula’s changeable political weather. Even so, thecurrent state of affairs is unprecedented. Pyongyang has always been a master of threats andinsults, but it has spent the whole of 2012 hurling ever ruder and angrier …

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Toronto Police News Release: Missing girl, NK Defector Sol Han, 13

The Toronto Police Service is requesting the public's assistance locating a missing girl. Sol Han, 13, of Toronto, was last seen on Friday, February 10, 2012, in the Bloor

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North Korea Loses its Place Atop the World’s Most Censured Nation’s Lists

Last week the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a report which put Eritrea as the world’s leading censor of the media.  Eritrea sat on top of a

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Differences between Chinese and English KCNA Reports, by Roger Cavazos

In a surprising move, the English-language KCNA site has slightly more detailed information on Kim Yong Nam’s visit to Singapore and Jakarta than the Chinese-language version.  The reason for

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North Korea Friendship day in Norway

Comments: Dear friends , at a time in history when the already tense relations across the divided Korean peninsula are at their worst in a very long time, it feels

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Pyongyang paints history in its own image, By Andrei Lankov

History is very important for Marxism, which believes itself to be based on "scientific" analysis of the past. That said, Marxism in power, better known as "really existing

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Kim Jong Un Scolds Mangyongdae Funfair Staff

Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's ArmyKim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National

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Chinese Upset with North Korea?

In a new feature, Roger Cavazos will highlight recent and must-read North Korea analysis that has appeared in Chinese media. To start with, a piece on potential Chinese

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Foreign Trade Q1 Edition

North Korea releases its Q1 edition of "Foreign Trade" magazine. Available for download in PDF form

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CRS Releases New Report on North Korea

by David Slatter, NK News Intern "Should the United States resume food, energy, and/or denuclearization assistance to North Korea?" is the opening line of the CRS Report for Congress, compiled