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Information related to North Korean history
From North Carolina to North Korea and beyond: meeting a U.S. defector in Japan
Charles Robert Jenkins spent 39 years in the DPRK, working as everything from translator to silver screen star
Going back and forth to Pyongyang as a secret negotiator – NKNews Podcast Ep.104
Park Chul-un discusses his multiple clandestine trips across the DMZ during a turbulent period in inter-Korean relations
Why a break-in at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence reflects a strained alliance
The protest from "progressive" South Korean students comes amid controversial U.S.-ROK defense cost-sharing negotiations
U.S. outreach to North Korea over war remains “met with silence”: DPAA chief
Agency in charge of recovering POW remains still "open" to sitting down with DPRK in 2020
Bringing Slovenian avant-garde rock to the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.103
Morten Traavik and Mary Sun Kim discuss Laibach's 2015 concert in Pyongyang and navigating North Korean censorship
Party like it’s 1998: how South Korean tourism to Mount Kumgang got started
The story of how South Korea's leading dissident and a chaebol tycoon launched the historic inter-Korean project
Bow to the leader: a history of North Korea’s iconic and ubiquitous Kim statues
Statues began being erected in the late 1960s, and continue to be sites of mandatory pilgrimage to this day
Beyond the impasse: the answer to solving the GSOMIA dispute lies in the past
Historical issues between the two countries must be resolved if the U.S. is to achieve its trilateral alliance
Korean-Americans should be part of DPRK family reunions: U.S. House Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee passes bill saying State Dept, ROK should include Korean-Americans in future reunions
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