History
Information related to North Korean history
Going “home”: why 87,000 Zainichi Koreans moved from Japan to North Korea
From 1959 to 1984, thousands of Koreans in Japan were promised a better life in the DPRK, only to be met with suffering
Unconverted political prisoners, and inter-Korean romance, in DPRK fiction
Stories based (very) loosely on the real-life repatriations of prisoners from South to North became popular in the 2000s
Ask a North Korean: were North Koreans genuinely grieving when Kim Il Sung died?
"It felt like the world was coming to an end"
The Flower of Unification: how a girl from the South became an icon in the North
Lim Su-kyung's 1989 Pyongyang visit shows how close, and yet how far apart, the two Koreas were and remain to this day
Keeping the peace at the DMZ – NKNews Podcast Ep.111
Swiss Major General Patrick Gauchat discusses neutral actors on the peninsula and their importance going forward
Ask a North Korean: what does the leader’s New Year’s speech mean to you?
"No North Korean is looking forward to the New Year’s speech"
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
The revolution that wasn’t: is North Korea really a “revolutionary” state?
Despite official claims, early DPRK history was not marked by radical change to the status quo
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. citizen says he snuck into North Korea, was imprisoned in 2015
American who crossed into the DPRK illegally four years ago tells his story for the first time
Changing narratives of adoption in North Korean mass culture
Following the famine of the 1990s, North Korean films increasingly promoted individuals adopting orphaned children
