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Selfie love shown between South and North Korean gymnasts

Corey Gold
Aug 10, 2016
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A South Korean and North Korean gymnast have shown the world the two nations can live peacefully side-by-side with one selfie.

Korea, North Korea
(gymnastics • LINE brown • North Korea • rio olympics • selfie • South Korea)

Spectacular video footage from inside North Korea by travel vlogger【Video】

Corey Gold
Aug 7, 2016

This incredible new video was released by a Lithuanian-born entrepreneur documenting his mysterious 7-day trip to North Korea.

Lifestyle, North Korea
(adventure • amazing movie • documentary • footage • Korea • North Korea • Pyongyang • travel • video • viral)

The latest spat between the two Koreas took a really bizarre turn

BUSINESS INSIDER
Jul 29, 2016

The dispute between the two Korean nations took a really odd turn when North Korea accused their southern counterpart of releasing deadly snakes along the border.

Korea, North Korea
(DMZ • North Korea • Pyongyang • snakes • South Korea)

We finally know the age of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un

BUSINESS INSIDER
Jul 9, 2016

US officials closely monitor North Korea’s activities, so it might come as a surprise that we’ve been missing some basic information on its leader, Kim Jong Un.

North Korea
(age • Birthday • Kim Jong-un • news • North Korea)

Rare photos from inside North Korea’s mysterious buildings

BUSINESS INSIDER
Jun 16, 2016

Kim Jong Suk Creche, Pyongyang Oliver Wainwright

For 10 days, architect, photographer, and architecture and design critic for The Guardian, Oliver Wainwright, traveled to Pyongyang, North Korea where he got tours inside buildings, with permission to photograph.

Culture, North Korea
(architecture • buildings • North Korea • photography)

“Best Korea’s Social Network” hacked after using worst ID and password possible

Master Blaster
Jun 16, 2016

Even my mom practices tighter internet security than what appeared to be North Korea’s version of Facebook.

Games & Tech, Internet, Lifestyle, North Korea
(facebook • hacking • Scotland • Starcon)

World on high alert as North Korea flexes its video FX muscle【Video】

Master Blaster
Apr 7, 2016

New video shows that North Korea is possibly in possession of the Action Movie FX app, arguably the most devastating weapon simulation app known to man.

North Korea
(Action Movie FX • fail • North Korea • propaganda • threat • video • video editing)

The dirty reason China can’t always tell North Korea what to do

BUSINESS INSIDER
Mar 29, 2016

Global consumption of coal has declined significantly over the past year, driven by China, which makes up about half of the world’s demand for coal.

China, North Korea
(China • coal • environment • North Korea • pollution • trade)

North Korea claims it has invented “hangover-free” alcohol

KK Miller
Jan 21, 2016

Another day, another wild North Korean claim, but is it science fiction, or a genuine scientific miracle?

North Korea
(alcohol • drinks • hangover • invention • science)

North Korea claims successful hydrogen bomb test, world very skeptical

KK Miller
Jan 7, 2016

North Korea is beginning the New Year by announcing it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.

North Korea
(hydrogen bomb • military • North Korea)

What do North Korean idol singers sound like? Like this 【Videos】

Casey Baseel
Dec 15, 2015

“We’ll exert ourselves with the Labor Party!” sounds so much more appealing when it’s being sung by young women in high heels and followed by a guitar solo.

North Korea
(idol singers • Idols • music • pop music • video)

North Korea has developed nuclear-capable missiles capable of hitting the US

BUSINESS INSIDER
Nov 4, 2015

North Korea now has a range of ballistic missiles that are thought to be capable of hitting both the US mainland and American interests throughout the Pacific, The Heritage Foundation reports in its 2016 Index of US Military Strength.

The annual report examines the strength of the US military, and also takes into account potential rising threats to the US and its allies from across the world. According to Heritage, the threat from the nuclear-armed, anti-American authoritarian state will only get more complicated in 2016.

North Korea
(military • missiles • North Korea • nuclear weapons • report)

Kim Jong-un visits North Korean women soldiers, internet Photoshop battle ensues【Pics】

Scott Wilson
Sep 26, 2015

It has to be pretty good being Kim Jong-un. You’re the supreme dictator of a whole country, you’ve got the most fashionable haircut ever, and women flock to you and faint in your presence.

Unfortunately being so handsome and popular has one downside though: the internet. When the online hivemind got its hands on a photo of Kim Jong-un visiting the female division of his divine army, they created some hilarious Photoshop masterpieces that are truly fitting for such a respected leader.

North Korea
(army • crying • funny • Kim Jong-un • Photoshop • Photoshop battle)

North Korea establishes its own time zone in order to stick it to “wicked Japanese imperialists”

Philip Kendall
Aug 7, 2015

Were they granted the ability to manipulate time and space, we’re fairly certain that most world leaders would choose to go back in time in order to benefit their own country somehow, replaying disastrous moments in their history and righting wrongs that would later cost them dearly. (One can only imagine a world in which the likes of Katie Hopkins and Donald Trump were never put in front of a camera…)

But today, totalitarian dictatorship North Korea declared that it would be turning the clock back by just 30 minutes, thus establishing “Pyongyang Time”, in order to mark its independence from the “wicked Japanese imperialists” who meddled with their clocks to begin with.

Japan, North Korea
(colonisation • Japan • North Korea • Pyongyang Time • time zone)

North Korean officials, Gaddafi and more get the heavy metal treatment from talented guitarist

ANDRES OLIVER
Feb 27, 2015

A while back, Japanese politician Ryutaro Nonomura captured the world’s attention after a surreal outburst at a press conference regarding his alleged misuse of taxpayers’ money. No doubt seeing fertile ground for comedy, one creative musician then made Nonomura the stuff of Internet legend by setting the man’s sobs to a guitar track.

Guitarist Felix Martin and his talented collaborators operate under a similar concept, setting guitar, drums, and bass to speeches from North Korean officials, Hugo Chavez, and others. This project isn’t for laughs, though. With an ear for the rhythm and pitch of the spoken word, not to mention masterful heavy metal stylings, Martin and company elevate the aptly named Human Transcription project to the realm of art. Politics and propaganda have never sounded so good.

North Korea, USA
(cool • language • music • video • YouTube)

North Korean official put to death after twisting song lyrics during karaoke session

KK Miller
Oct 31, 2014

Oh, North Korea. Whether you’re hanging out with American “diplomats” or testing your rockets by firing them over your neighbors’ airspace, you never cease to amaze us with your incredible antics.

While Korea’s grumpy northern half can do very little when the rest of the world criticizes its behavior, “justice” will be swift for those who support dissenting opinions within the country. But in order to mask the removal of high-ranking North Korean officers as something other than Kim Jong Un flexing his supreme leader powers, the North Korean media has recently released “reasons” that could only be acceptable there.

North Korea
(crazy • execution • karaoke • lyrics • politics)

North Korea bars foreign tourists to prevent spread of Ebola

Casey Baseel
Oct 24, 2014

With a couple of months having passed since summer vacation, many of us are feeling the need for a few days off. After all, who doesn’t like getting away from their workaday routine for the liberating excitement of a few days taking a trip someplace new, like North Korea?

But if your short-term travel wish list includes a trip to the northern reaches of the Korean Peninsula, you might want to postpone your departure, because as of October 24, no foreign tourists are getting in, due to a new government policy to prevent the spread of Ebola to the communist country.

North Korea
(Ebola • health • North Korea • travel)

Over 3 decades, North Korea paid for full-page propaganda ads in western newspapers

BUSINESS INSIDER
Aug 30, 2014

From 1969 to 1997, the North Korean leadership purchased expensive full-page ad space in the most prominent western newspapers, Benjamin R. Young reports for NK News. The ads, which cost anywhere from $3,000 to $10,000, were placed in high-profile publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian.

North Korea
(Kim Jong-il • Kim Jong-un • news • propoganda)

Scandal in North Korea after Kim Jong-un makes mildly self-deprecating remark

Master Blaster
Aug 15, 2014

Every nation’s leader has to face one sooner or later and North Korea’s is no different. The DPRK was rocked recently by a scandal involving their Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un when a report came out that he once admitted he was “kind of boring” while visiting orphans at a hospital.

Although various rumors about Kim have circulated in other countries before, this would be the first time we know of that North Korea’s tightly controlled media will have reported a negative comment about him. Some fear this is only the beginning; further compliment-fishing remarks may come next such as,“Is that another grey hair?” or “You’re so lucky! Anytime I eat chocolate it goes right to my butt.” In great enough numbers these little utterances may seriously endanger his carefully engineered image of infallibility.

North Korea
(boring • Kim Jong-un • media)

The world of the future, according to North Korean architect

Jessica
Aug 13, 2014

The interconnectedness of today’s world has been a real boon to artists, scientists, designers, futurists, and pretty much anyone who thrives on the free exchange of ideas. If you asked a kid from South Africa to draw the city of the future, it would be equally likely and unsurprising for her to design futuristic skyscrapers reminiscent of the Burj Khalifa or hobbit hole-like underground eco-houses.

But what if you were from North Korea? What if you didn’t have Internet and had never left your own country? What would the city of the future look like to you?