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Long-form reporting on timeless issues and human interest stories by NK News journalists and contributors.
Why the rise of AI and space radar is bad news for North Korean smugglers
Advances in artificial intelligence make it possible to detect illicit activity from space, even in the dead of night
3,000 days in a North Korean prison: A missionary’s family prays for his return
Christmas marks tragic milestone since Kim Jong-uk’s arrest, with at least six South Koreans still detained in the DPRK
Gift guide: The best books for North Korea watchers this holiday season
New titles released in 2021 shed light on all things DPRK, from everyday life to little-known history
Book review: ‘Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea’
Markus Bell writes a sobering reflection on the tens of thousands of Koreans that voluntarily left Japan for North Korea
Prejudice, not just COVID, is behind DPRK’s expected absence from Paralympics
COVID-19 is DPRK’s immediate concern, but experts say the country also discriminates against people with disabilities
Absence of North Korean women’s soccer team at Olympics a loss for diplomacy
Sports diplomacy advocates lament loss of key opportunity for engagement with North Korea as Summer Games begin Friday
North Korea’s relations with Cuba: Revolutionary comrades and brothers-in-arms
Long united against U.S interventionism, the Havana protests show how far apart the two friends’ societies have drifted
A “New Spring” of culture in Kim Il Sung’s North Korea
Brief period of relaxed censorship produced rich literature like Chon Se Bong’s 1958 novel
Missiles, money and ginseng: A North Korean spy in the Cold War
A weapons factory worker in Kiev was one of Pyongyang’s great spy assets in the 1970s
Letters from prison: Park Jong-lin, North Korean spy and detainee, dies at 89
For decades, Park Jong-lin longed for the day to meet the daughter he left behind in the North
