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, by BLUTH Christoph
North Korea’s dictator Kim Jung-Un has given his elite supporters masks and privileged access to healthcare.
For most of the COVID pandemic, North Korea has taken a different approach to the rest of the world. While other countries locked down and restricted international travel, the North (...)
, by HEAD Michael
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. But it’s only in recent days, in May 2022, that the secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has reported its first confirmed cases of the virus.
While it may seem somewhat astounding that a country (...)
, by YAMANAKA Karen
North Korea has clarified its position to support Russia externally. Although The UN General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on March 2 demanding that Russia immediately end its military operations in Ukraine, North Korea voted against it with other four countries: Belarus, (...)
, by KIM Duyeon
When North Korean state media reported that the Workers Party’s convened a plenary meeting of its 8th Central Committee on December 27, it signaled that Kim Jong Un might not deliver a New Year’s Day address this year. Sure enough, state media instead reported on the results of the five-day (...)
, by Business Insider
• Pyongyang’s official stance remains that the North is free of the virus, with the cloistered nation stubbornly resisting calls for greater transparency
• But South Korean media outlets report that hundreds have died in the secretive state, with many thousands more in quarantine
Hundreds of (...)
, by HAAS Benjamin
Citizens urged to wage all-out battle to preserve food stocks amid ‘unprecedented’ drought
Temperatures have reached more than 40C in some regions of North Korea since late July. Photograph: Kim Kwang Hyon/AP
The North Korean government has called on its people to wage an “all-out battle” (...)
, by McCURRY Justin
North Korean leader’s sibling is about 30, and a computing graduate turned propagandist who has helped her brother cement his grip on power.
Kim Yo-jong’s promotion to the politburo of North Korea’s workers’ party is a sign that Kim Jong-un has absolute trust in his younger sister – rumoured to (...)
, by Associated Press
North Korea is trying to invigorate its hidebound economy by offering more control and possibly more personal rewards to key sectors of its workforce in the country’s biggest domestic policy experiment since leader Kim Jong-un assumed power.
The measures give managers the power to set salaries (...)
, by WHITEHOUSE David
David Whitehouse asks why three left-wing organizations would pay tribute to North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-il and celebrate his regime as a model of socialism.
RELIABLE INFORMATION about North Korea can be hard to come by. The regime is secretive, and the mainstream media—rather than doing (...)
, by The Economist
It seems unlikely that Kim Jong Un will want to reform North Korea, but even less likely that the regime can go on resisting change
IF NORTH KOREA were not so tragic and dangerous, the scenes broadcast to the world after the funeral of Kim Jong Il would have been comic. Waves of mourners (...)
, by FRANK Ruediger
Kim Jong-il is no more. The state news agency KCNA reported that he died on his train on Saturday 17 December 2011. This is the official version (now doubted internationally) that observers of North Korea have actually seen under preparation for quite a while, including in works of art that (...)
, by LINTNER Bertil
After an exchange of secret visits, North Korean armaments began to arrive in Burma. The curious relationship between Burma and North Korea was first disclosed in the Hong Kong-based weekly Far Eastern Economic Review on July 10, 2003. A group of 15 to-20 North Korean technicians were then seen (...)
, by KEY Seok
``So, what do you think Secretary Clinton should tell Kim Jong-il if they ever have a chance to meet?’’ When I posed this question to a North Korean woman living in Seoul, she gave me an unexpected answer: ``I would like her to tell him to allow North Korean women to wear pants and ride (...)
, by CHANG Henri
Women who fled starvation in North Korea face still more risks in China
A mass of jet-black hair accenting her thin, white face, she has the look of a telegenic cosmetics model in Seoul, an image hardly evocative of a tough officer in the North Korean People’s Army. And yet that was what she (...)
, by Human Rights Watch
Resume Food Aid to North Korea’s Vulnerable Population
“As the international community responds to North Korea’s nuclear test, it must distinguish between the North Korean government and ordinary citizens. Further restraints on food aid will only make ordinary North Koreans suffer more.” Sophie (...)
, by Human Rights Watch
(Seoul, October 3, 2006) – The North Korean law governing the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), a new industrial joint venture between North Korea and South Korean companies, should be amended to ensure adequate protections of basic workers’ rights, Human Rights Watch said in a new briefing paper (...)
, by FEFFER John
Introduction
Access to food is a basic human right. For several decades, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) prided itself on meeting the food needs of its population, although it has little arable land. Like many socialist countries, North Korea emphasized this success—along with (...)
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