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Kim Jong-un Executes Hyon Yong-chol Using Anti-Aircraft Guns
Kim Jong-un executes DPRK Defence Chief Hyon Yong-chol according to South Korea intelligence sources North Korea Defence Chief Hyon Yong-chol ‘executed’ – BBC News South Korean lawmaker Shin Kyoung-min reported the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service revealed to a committee in a meeting today that DPRK Defence Chief, People’s Armed Forces Minister Hyon Yong-chol […]
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Kim Jong un’s Wife Ri Sol-ju is Pyongyang Fashion Icon
KCTV Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju Visits Rungna People′s Pleasure Ground North Korea’s first lady Ri Sol-ju is the DPRK’s foremost fashionista, sporting looks that favor Chanel and often adorned with flower-shaped broaches, ribbons, polka dots, ruffles, and flashy accessories. North Korean’s women are attempting to imitate Ri Sol-ju’s fashion sense and have […]
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Pyongyang Chain of Restaurants – A Little Bit of North Korea in Franchise Form
Of all the places you would expect to find a North Korean-owned chain restaurant called Pyongyang, Cambodia may make the short list of least likely locales to host yet another of the DPRK’s exotic, quixotic, or just down-right odd attempts at propaganda. These restaurants serve traditional Korean fare and feature beautiful and talented waitresses that […]
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A North Korean Defector Wants to Return to the DPRK? Strange But True
While most stories focus on how awful a place the DPRK is, oddly, there are some cases of refugees from the DPRK who want to return to North Korea. Due to a myriad of reasons, from missing family in the North to failure to integrate successfully into South Korean society, a very few North Koreans […]
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Kim Jong Un Attempts to Project Unity During Kim Jong Il Memorial
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attempted to project an image of unity in the wake of his uncle and nominal DPRK second-in-command Jang Song Thaek’s execution following a laundry list of charges against him including such dubious charges as moral dissipation to plotting to overthrow the regime in Pyongyang and disrupt the “monolithic operation […]
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Champion Weight Lifter Hailed In Pyongyang With South Korean National Anthem
An international weight lifting competition in North Korea, unusual in and of itself, was further transformed into a peculiar spectacle when a champion weight lifter from South Korea stood atop the winner’s podium as the national anthem of the Republic of Korea was played in the heart of the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic […]
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Luxury Skiing in Wonsan How the DPRK Plans to Bring the Alps to North Korea
Now we don’t claim to know anything about North Korean geography, or whether Wonsan would even be appropriate for the location of said resort, but reports have emerged from Pyongyang that the central government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea plans on bringing luxury, alpine trails to the mountains and vistas of the world’s […]
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Is North Korea’s State Ideology, Juche(주체), a Religion?
According to Adherents.com, which tracks membership numbers among the world’s various religions, the 10th largest religious group in the world is the entire state of North Korea itself – namely, the Juche (주체) ideology coined by Eternal President Kim Il-sung and propagated through the DPRK’s propaganda machine. The Juche movement is much more overtly religious […]
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