A North Korean spring: evaluating the likelihood of political change in the hermit kingdom

A comprehensive analysis of the overall social and political changes in North Korea following the development of underground ...
The Diplomat

What is Happening to North Korea’s Jangmadang Free Markets?

Will the Kim regime be successful in uprooting this core element of North Korea’s black market economy? For decades, the ...
The Atlantic

How to Smuggle Footage Out of North Korea

An undercover journalist risked his life to shoot the footage of starving, soot-covered children begging for food in North Korea published Monday by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The ...

A North Korean defector says she and others like her are struggling to survive in the South: 'I want to go back and die there — South Korea is as suffocating as the North'

The North Korean woman, who could only escape with one of her sons, said her eldest son was beaten to death after she fled, per Bloomberg.
Yahoo! Sports

How Kim Jong Il Starved North Korea

When North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il died of a coronary this weekend after 17 years in power, the homuncular tyrant left his country much as he found it -- poor, and desperately hungry. For the last ...
The DiplomatOpinion

This War-era Humanitarian Rescue Story Undercuts North Korean Propaganda

The division of Korea will not last forever. The more North Koreans who know the truth about the Hungnam evacuation, the ...