Oct 04
It’s hard not to feel a sense of simultaneous discomfort and awe while watching the fascinatingly bizarre YouTube channel of Koryo Tours, a Beijing-based travel agency specializing in trips to North Korea.
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Aug 12
North Korea is known for a lot of things: propaganda
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Feb 05
This picture was recently released by North Korea’s state media, and it shows Kim Jong-un holding a meeting with his security advisers just last week. It also shows Kim’s phone close at hand—but can you help us work out exactly what it is? More »
Jan 09
North Korea’s led the charge in a lot of areas, fictional animal lair discoveries, for one. But South Korea’s crazy cousins to the north aren’t exactly known to excel at internet culture. So while it’s no surprise that their official Twitter account only follows three accounts, as Mother Jones discovered, it is, in fact, very surprising that the only active user in that very small bunch is some American dude named Jimmy Dushku. More »
Jan 07
Despite the U.S. State Department essentially saying that the Google chairman’s North Korean jaunt would be a horrible idea of which they want absolutely no part, this morning, Eric Schmidt landed in North Korea with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in tow. More »
Nov 30
Archeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences in North Korea claim they have found the “lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong.” Yes, folks. A unicorn. The unicorn that their good old King used to ride back in the day.* More »
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