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The strangest details Soviet archives reveal about 1970s North Korea
Reports describe doctors reciting Kim Il Sung, tourists rejecting ‘revisionist’ music and wartime thinking on the farm
September 25, 2026
How small changes in North Korea’s upcoming election could signal bigger moves
Choreographed parliamentary poll offers voters no real choice but can still reveal regime’s shifting priorities
March 13, 2026
How the Party Congress became North Korea’s biggest political event
A look back show how the Ninth Congress could announce policies, purge officials, herald a successor and more
February 17, 2026
Busting the many myths of North Korea, from Juche to Kim Jong Il’s Russian name
Seeing the DPRK clearly requires unearthing the fictions of state propaganda, including those recycled by scholars
January 28, 2026
Kim Yong Nam was a rare survivor in the cutthroat world of North Korean politics
Longtime No. 2 official overcame a suspicious resume to win Kim family’s trust, surviving purges with diplomatic skill
November 5, 2025
What the world lost when North Korea’s doors swung closed
Revisiting period when the DPRK felt within reach shows how much was taken for granted, and how quickly things change
October 28, 2025
Why there won’t be need for speculation when Kim Jong Un truly names his heir
History shows signs surface quickly when North Korea settles on a successor, unlike the uncertainty around his daughter
September 17, 2025
Kim Shin-jo, North Korean commando sent to kill South’s president, dies at 83
A survivor of 1968 Blue House raid, Kim stayed in the South and underwent an improbable transformation into a man of God
April 11, 2025
The trouble with comparing North Korea’s chief propagandist to Joseph Goebbels
Likening Kim Ki Nam to Nazi politician ignores how much more centralized DPRK is than Germany under National Socialism
May 10, 2024
North Korean Workers’ Party assembly chair Choe Thae Bok dead at 93
Kim Jong Un visited official’s funeral bier to pay respects to one of DPRK’s longest-tenured elites
January 23, 2024
