History
Information related to North Korean history
North Korean state media’s anti-U.S. propaganda remains coded in new year
Coverage of Sinchon Museum showcasing alleged American atrocities continues without explicit U.S. mention
Going “home”: why 87,000 Zainichi Koreans moved from Japan to North Korea
From 1959 to 1984, thousands of Koreans in Japan were promised a better life in the DPRK, only to be met with suffering
Unconverted political prisoners, and inter-Korean romance, in DPRK fiction
Stories based (very) loosely on the real-life repatriations of prisoners from South to North became popular in the 2000s
Ask a North Korean: were North Koreans genuinely grieving when Kim Il Sung died?
"It felt like the world was coming to an end"
The Flower of Unification: how a girl from the South became an icon in the North
Lim Su-kyung's 1989 Pyongyang visit shows how close, and yet how far apart, the two Koreas were and remain to this day
Keeping the peace at the DMZ – NKNews Podcast Ep.111
Swiss Major General Patrick Gauchat discusses neutral actors on the peninsula and their importance going forward
Ask a North Korean: what does the leader’s New Year’s speech mean to you?
"No North Korean is looking forward to the New Year’s speech"
Best of frenemies: Soviet perceptions of North Korea in the 1970s
Pyongyang showed little gratitude for Soviet assistance, yet Moscow couldn't afford to abandon the relationship
The revolution that wasn’t: is North Korea really a “revolutionary” state?
Despite official claims, early DPRK history was not marked by radical change to the status quo
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. citizen says he snuck into North Korea, was imprisoned in 2015
American who crossed into the DPRK illegally four years ago tells his story for the first time
