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Long-form reporting on timeless issues and human interest stories by NK News journalists and contributors.
Best of frenemies: Soviet perceptions of North Korea in the 1970s
Pyongyang showed little gratitude for Soviet assistance, yet Moscow couldn't afford to abandon the relationship
Sanctions, security, and a white horse: our top ten North Korea stories in 2019
Don’t go into the new year without having read these top stories
After massive data leak, North Korean refugees fear for family back home
"A lot of us couldn’t live our daily lives after hearing about the news"
Comrade Razzi: an eccentric Italian politician’s unusual love for North Korea
The selfie-loving former senator has forged close ties with the "beautiful" DPRK
With the century: the extraordinary life and times of Kim Il Sung
How Korea, and the world, changed alongside the life of the infamous dictator
How North Korea’s devastating famine subverted the rigid “songbun” system
Many were able to use their foreign connections to start illegal, but profitable, cross-border businesses
“Kings of the country”: growing up in North Korea isn’t always as bad as you’d think
Children in the DPRK enjoy more freedom and less mollycoddling from parents than kids in the West
Sowing the seeds of improving agriculture: Quakers in North Korea
The American Friends Service Committee has been helping farmers in North Korea for nearly 40 years
Politics and the Korean language: a history of Chinese characters in the DPRK
Both simplified and traditional characters remain in use to this day
Dangerous myths: why North Korean culture idolizes the Koguryo period
DPRK-made cartoons often distort historical reality and perpetuate nationalist falsehoods
