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First Western Tourists Inside Kim Mausoleum Describe “Surreal” Experience

First Western Tourists Inside Kim Mausoleum Describe “Surreal” Experience

Kim Jong Il's Macbook, Luxury Yacht and Train In Which He Died Also on Display.

First Western Tourists Inside Kim Mausoleum Describe “Surreal” Experience
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll January 19, 2013
EXCLUSIVE: Foreigners Now Permitted To Carry Mobile Phones In North Korea

EXCLUSIVE: Foreigners Now Permitted To Carry Mobile Phones In North Korea

Change in national policy comes just days after Google chairman's visit

EXCLUSIVE: Foreigners Now Permitted To Carry Mobile Phones In North Korea
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll January 19, 2013
North Korea Attempts To Turn South Korean Data On Its Head

North Korea Attempts To Turn South Korean Data On Its Head

New videos published by Uriminzokkiri use South Korean data and broadcast footage to undermine its neighbor

North Korea Attempts To Turn South Korean Data On Its Head
NK News
NK News January 18, 2013
North Korea’s Vintage Airliners Banned From China

North Korea’s Vintage Airliners Banned From China

It's Game Over for Korea's Decades Old Soviet Fleet

North Korea’s Vintage Airliners Banned From China
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll January 17, 2013
What’s Inside This Little Green Book?

What’s Inside This Little Green Book?

Koreans Get Their Own Book Of Psalms

What’s Inside This Little Green Book?
NK News
NK News January 15, 2013
Google Delegation Return Without Access To Detained American

Google Delegation Return Without Access To Detained American

Hopes that Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt would have returned with detained U.S. national were today quashed

Google Delegation Return Without Access To Detained American
NK News
NK News January 10, 2013
North Korea Spends $10 Million Building Museum in Cambodia

North Korea Spends $10 Million Building Museum in Cambodia

Despite economic problems of its own, North Korea orders the construction of a museum in the heart of Cambodia's tourist trail

North Korea Spends $10 Million Building Museum in Cambodia
NK News
NK News January 9, 2013
Revealed: North Korea’s Sesame Street Export Business

Revealed: North Korea’s Sesame Street Export Business

Is Sesame Street Toy Production Being Unwittingly Outsourced to North Korea, or Is This a Bizarre Case of North Korean Bootlegging?

Revealed: North Korea’s Sesame Street Export Business
NK News
NK News January 8, 2013
Google’s Schmidt Touches Down In Pyongyang, Despite The Critics

Google’s Schmidt Touches Down In Pyongyang, Despite The Critics

Purpose of high-profile visit is not clear, but Richardson suggests there may be a "social media aspect"

Google’s Schmidt Touches Down In Pyongyang, Despite The Critics
NK News
NK News January 7, 2013
North Korea Uses Newtown Shootings to Denounce America

North Korea Uses Newtown Shootings to Denounce America

In an ongoing propaganda effort, North Korea uses calamity in the U.S. to highlight the supposed low quality of life there

North Korea Uses Newtown Shootings to Denounce America
Benjamin R. Young
Benjamin R. Young January 7, 2013