What Are the North Koreans Up To?Christian Saborowski
North Korean authorities have introduced a brand new election method: allowing multiple candidates to run andletting citizens choose the winner. This development has sparked a wide range of responses from North Koreans.
The series focuses on Korea’s socio-economic conflict between both sides of the border, hence the title Joint Economic Area. This is the name of the fictional region where the border between North and South is in the real world. Like the originalMoney Heist, the Korean adaptation focuses on...
On the eve of the 69th anniversary of North Korea, outsiders are watching for any sign of threats from Pyongyang. Many are asking what young South Koreans think about these threats. We bring to you the passionate voice of a young South Korean: Guk Beom-geun is the founder of G-pictures...
In 1945, superpowers drew a line bisecting the Korean peninsula to separate the Soviet-supported Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (today’s North Korea) from the U.S.-supported Republic of Korea to the South. Essentially a civil conflict, the Korean War became a proxy war between super...
as a day of struggle against the United States and its “puppets” in South Korea, in line with the North Korean narrative that the Korean War was started by a South Korean military invasion. The North Koreans may even ask Putin to attend the ceremony. We’ll have to wait and see if...
North Koreans, by contrast, harbor little doubt. “The essence of the Juche idea is that man is the master of his own destiny,” Kim Chang Kyong, department head at the North’s Social Scientists Association and an expert in Juche, said in an interview in Pyongyang. Understanding his coun...
But North Korea agreeing to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was the ultimate goal of this summit. So far there are no specifics as to how or when that might actually happen, or what Kim wants in return. "The devil is in the details," said In-Bum Chun, a retired lieutenant...
Under the condition that North Korea "genuinely embarks on a process to complete denuclearization," the new South Korean government will present "an audacious plan" to help Pyongyang strengthen its hardstricken economy and "improve the quality of life for its people," Yoon added. MORE: S. ...
The source, who is in the North Korean military, told Daily NK that the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army issued an order in early January for the entire army to solicit opinions from individual soldiers on problems with military life and issues they want to be resolved...