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DPRK history and plagiarism in Korean Studies – NKNews Podcast Ep.106
Professor Balázs Szalontai discusses his scholarly work on North Korea and the controversy surrounding Charles Armstrong
Rules are rules: North Korean “democracy,” in theory and in practice
While the laws could allow for the leader to be removed from office, such a scenario would likely require a major crisis
From Wiltshire to Pyongyang: North Korea’s Taedonggang brewery
The story of how Ushers of Trowbridge was reassembled in the DPRK, brick by brick, becoming the country's first brewery
What North Korea could learn from labor relations in post-reform China
Heavy state involvement and a lack of worker representation stifled the effective resolution of disputes in Guangdong
From North Carolina to North Korea and beyond: meeting a U.S. defector in Japan
Charles Robert Jenkins spent 39 years in the DPRK, working as everything from translator to silver screen star
Going back and forth to Pyongyang as a secret negotiator – NKNews Podcast Ep.104
Park Chul-un discusses his multiple clandestine trips across the DMZ during a turbulent period in inter-Korean relations
Why a break-in at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence reflects a strained alliance
The protest from "progressive" South Korean students comes amid controversial U.S.-ROK defense cost-sharing negotiations
U.S. outreach to North Korea over war remains “met with silence”: DPAA chief
Agency in charge of recovering POW remains still "open" to sitting down with DPRK in 2020
Bringing Slovenian avant-garde rock to the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.103
Morten Traavik and Mary Sun Kim discuss Laibach's 2015 concert in Pyongyang and navigating North Korean censorship
Party like it’s 1998: how South Korean tourism to Mount Kumgang got started
The story of how South Korea's leading dissident and a chaebol tycoon launched the historic inter-Korean project
