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I tell the landlady I got a job, I’m gonna pay the rentShe said “Yeah?” I said “Oh yeah”And then she was so nice,Lord, she was lovey-doveySo

by Joshua | May 15, 2012 · 7:22 pm Recently, the AP’s Pyongyang Bureau has produced thankfully little of the reprocessed KCNA propaganda that caused me to

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

The price for a North Korean woman named Kim Eun-sun, her mother, and sister, to escape to China was 2,000 Chinese yuan, slightly more than $300. Like thousands of North Korean women before them, they

by Scott A. Snyder May 14, 2012 The conventional wisdom is that there could be nothing more dangerous to North Korea’s current leadership than the penetration of information

Choosing nuclear is a mistake May 15,2012 The U.S. Congress is deciding whether to pressure the U.S. government to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons on the

By Evan RamstadSouth Korea’s leftist politicians, who occupy only about 5% of the seats in parliament, have grabbed headlines in recent years by resorting to fisticuffs and

Long time Korea correspondent Donald Kirk has a good article published in the Christian Science Monitor that continues to highlight the often ignored human rights abuses going

An occupational hazard of working on North Korea is that it can make you say and do stupid things. Given that the North Koreans are so diabolically