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Creativity and propaganda in North Korean music – NKNews Podcast Ep. 198
Keith Howard explores the central role of music as an ideological tool and how it illuminates North Korean society
Failing to foresee China’s entry into the Korean War – NKNews Podcast Ep. 197
Jonathan Corrado and Markus Garlauskas discuss the US intelligence failure and its relevance to contemporary challenges
The strange case of the Japanese man who chose to stay in North Korea
Captured decades ago, Takeshi Terakoshi still lives in Pyongyang with his North Korean wife and kids
What the US withdrawal from Afghanistan means for North Korea
Pyongyang hardliners may think their idea of reunification is real again, but Korea differs vastly from Afghanistan
The man that might have saved North Korea and Afghanistan
Aleksandr Puzanov was Moscow’s diplomat in Pyongyang and Kabul as both countries tipped over the precipice
Kim Jong Un, in naming a successor, follows a similar precedent to Mao
North Korea's creation of an immediate deputy to leader resembles China's plan to name a successor for ailing Mao Zedong
What’s in a name? The misleading history of North Korea’s ‘hermit’ label
The Hermit Kingdom moniker betrays ignorance of North Korean engagement with the world past and present
Mexico angles to improve ties with DPRK four years after expelling diplomat
Unlikely friendship, tested by nuclear development, gives Mexico a foothold in Asia and North Korea an economic partner
How North Korea has limited, controlled and surveilled dangerous outsiders
The recent exodus of diplomats from Pyongyang underlines the DPRK’s long-standing suspicions toward foreigners
Ideology still drives North Korea and China together
The dream of socialism may be dead in Eastern Europe but it is alive and well in East Asia
