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Ask a North Korean: What do North Koreans know about medieval Korean history?
“North Korea draws parallels between the kings of the past and the Kims of the present.”
‘The big hunt’: When North Korean agents almost killed South Korea’s president
North Korea came dangerously close to assassinating President Park Chung-hee in the Blue House in Seoul on Jan. 21, 1968
‘Lips and teeth’: The rise of DPRK-China relations – NKNews Podcast Ep. 164
NK News's Chad O'Carroll, Colin Zwirko and Min Chao Choy discuss what growing Pyongyang-Beijing ties could bring in 2021
North Korea in Dec. 2020: A month in review and what’s ahead
An analytical look at the main developments from Dec. 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
Why Kim Jong Un couldn’t be bothered with more ‘on-the-spot’ guidances in 2020
It may be a North Korean tradition, but the young ruler is making his own leadership traditions this year
Decades later, a once-divided Germany still holds lessons for Korean peace
Bernhard Seliger of the Hanns Seidel Foundation weighs in on how North and South Korea can reconcile
A North Korean textbook shows that Pyongyang and Beijing are still ‘frenemies’
By all indications, Pyongyang and Beijing really cozied up in 2020. But a recent history book suggests otherwise.
Nine years ago, Kim Jong Un took power. Here’s what changed in 2020.
North Korea underwent several drastic adjustments this year — some of which were state-sponsored, some of which were not
North Korea wants an EU embassy, but France and Belgium won’t let that happen
Despite Pyongyang’s wishes, Paris and Brussels are preventing it from cementing diplomatic relations agreed to in 2001
10 years ago, North Korea enraged the South with deadly border island attack
North Korea’s shelling of Yeonpyeong Island killed two civilians, sparking tensions along the inter-Korean sea border
