In the first of a special Christmas review of previous NK News features, we take a look back at this piece by Alexander James on the United Kingdom’s pro-North Korea community, a community that recently called this site a CIA Front.

LONDON – The recent death of Kim Jong-il has pushed the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the forefront of the world’s imagination. Scenes of mass public grief, cases of hereditary political succession, and a leader so unknown that even his age is open to speculation, have all added to the belief that the DPRK is a state unlike