History
Information related to North Korean history
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
The need for speed: time as a political tool in North Korea
The U.S. should take note that Kim Jong Un can literally change the time on a subjective — or political — whim
DPRK history and plagiarism in Korean Studies – NKNews Podcast Ep.106
Professor Balázs Szalontai discusses his scholarly work on North Korea and the controversy surrounding Charles Armstrong
Rules are rules: North Korean “democracy,” in theory and in practice
While the laws could allow for the leader to be removed from office, such a scenario would likely require a major crisis
From Wiltshire to Pyongyang: North Korea’s Taedonggang brewery
The story of how Ushers of Trowbridge was reassembled in the DPRK, brick by brick, becoming the country's first brewery
What North Korea could learn from labor relations in post-reform China
Heavy state involvement and a lack of worker representation stifled the effective resolution of disputes in Guangdong
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
