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Long-form reporting on timeless issues and human interest stories by NK News journalists and contributors.
75 years after liberation, are we slowly coming to terms with a divided Korea?
Calls for a united homeland have become gradually quieter since liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945
The strange reason North Korean email addresses are designed to fail
North Korean factories and service providers increasingly embrace the web, but emails remain a major business setback
“Being in North Korea”: teaching business in the world’s last Stalinist state
A new book details the trials and tribulations of on-the-ground engagement in the DPRK
“Becoming Kim Jong Un”: a former CIA officer’s limited insights into North Korea
A new book offers interesting insights, but falls flat in explaining a better way to deal with the enigmatic regime
John Bolton’s impact on North Korea policy: nasty, brutish, and short
The former national security advisor's memoir reveals just how damaging his influence really was.
Shigeru Yokota, crusader for Japanese abducted by North Korea, dies at 87
Father of Megumi Yokata passed away Friday following decades-long fight to repatriate daughter from the DPRK
What’s up Pyongyang? North Korea experiments with vlogging to fight “fake news”
A new online series, produced in-country, could represent a bold new style for Pyongyang's propaganda operations
Ri Yong Man, long-time North Korean cultural diplomat, passes away
Artists pay tribute to DPRK official's "towering contribution" to cultural exchange
Troy Collings, Managing Director of North Korea travel company YPT, dies at 33
Co-founder of Young Pioneer Tours died last week after suffering heart attack
The history of Cold War North Korea through the five stages of grief
The DPRK leadership's failure to unify the country during the Korean War left a deep scar on the national psyche
