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Mountain carving: The power of North Korea’s political slogans

Mountain carving: The power of North Korea’s political slogans

Slogans are one of the most ubiquitous forms of propaganda in the DPRK

Mountain carving: The power of North Korea’s political slogans
Benjamin R. Young
Benjamin R. Young August 2, 2016
Kim Jong Il: The man who brought love to North Korea’s silver screen

Kim Jong Il: The man who brought love to North Korea’s silver screen

Romance in movies and books was strictly prohibited under leadership of Kim Il Sung

Kim Jong Il: The man who brought love to North Korea’s silver screen
Tatiana Gabroussenko
Tatiana Gabroussenko August 2, 2016
Propaganda starts early: North Korea’s cruel and crude cartoons

Propaganda starts early: North Korea’s cruel and crude cartoons

While Kim family is absent in N.Korean cartoons, propaganda can still be found aplenty

Propaganda starts early: North Korea’s cruel and crude cartoons
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy July 25, 2016
No sex please, we’re in a North Korean movie

No sex please, we’re in a North Korean movie

Far from revolutionary, cinema and lit in Kim Il Sung’s time was extremely conservative with romance

No sex please, we’re in a North Korean movie
Four North Koreans’ great Bulgarian escape

Four North Koreans’ great Bulgarian escape

For 4 exchange students in Eastern Europe, de-Stalinization was not just an intellectual challenge

Four North Koreans’ great Bulgarian escape
Andrei Lankov
Andrei Lankov June 30, 2016
Strategic patience, critical engagement, and boredom: My Korean saga

Strategic patience, critical engagement, and boredom: My Korean saga

After watching 40 years, I no longer see much of a reason to be hopeful for a break in the deadlock

Strategic patience, critical engagement, and boredom: My Korean saga
James Hoare
James Hoare June 28, 2016
Ethnic Koreans in China not bound to N.Korea

Ethnic Koreans in China not bound to N.Korea

Younger generation in Yanbian Autonomous Region well aware of South Korean wave

Ethnic Koreans in China not bound to N.Korea
Robert E. McCoy
Robert E. McCoy June 27, 2016
The Kim family’s code of silence: Speaking up can be dangerous

The Kim family’s code of silence: Speaking up can be dangerous

Speaking out, as some of Kim Jong Un's family members recently did, can cost people their lives

The Kim family’s code of silence: Speaking up can be dangerous
Dennis P. Halpin
Dennis P. Halpin June 20, 2016
DPRK history: the 170mm self-propelled gun in the Iran-Iraq War

DPRK history: the 170mm self-propelled gun in the Iran-Iraq War

Only combat use of North Korea’s exclusive weapon and its subsequent capture

DPRK history: the 170mm self-propelled gun in the Iran-Iraq War
John G. Grisafi
John G. Grisafi June 19, 2016
From hero to zero: North Korea’s failure in Yanbian
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From hero to zero: North Korea’s failure in Yanbian

Economic decline, Southern culture explain North's gradual loss of appeal to provincial residents of Korean origin

From hero to zero: North Korea’s failure in Yanbian
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