History
Information related to North Korean history
North Korean Workers’ Party assembly chair Choe Thae Bok dead at 93
Kim Jong Un visited official’s funeral bier to pay respects to one of DPRK’s longest-tenured elites
How Russia’s secretive Lenin Lab helped North Korea embalm its ruling Kims
Pyongyang paid as much as $1M to the Russian team that has preserved Lenin for 100 years, though it refuses to admit it
North Korean state TV revises maps to only highlight northern half of peninsula
Changes appear to be part of systematic effort to purge symbols of unification in line with orders from Kim Jong Un
Echoes of war: North Korea’s artillery display stirs memories of 2010 shelling
DPRK’s aggressive start to 2024 portends more provocations, and this time Pyongyang’s goal likely isn’t negotiations
From Moscow to Pyongyang: How Russia’s anger toward West drove it to North Korea
Russia began to reengage the DPRK around turn of millennium, but decades of effort have only recently born fruit
Sporting glory: Inside North Korea’s failed bid to become an athletic powerhouse
From the 1980s, Kim regime used sports to engage South Korea and win support, but economic problems thwarted its plans
The role of translation in shedding light on North Korea – Ep. 324
Retired CIA officer Stephen Mercado discusses how analysts can mine non-Korean sources for insights into DPRK life
Why North Korea purged references to unification from propaganda websites
Change may be sign DPRK has nullified inter-Korean deals after Kim Jong Un called unification ‘impossible’
Why North Korea declared unification ‘impossible,’ abandoning decades-old goal
Kim Jong Un calls Koreas separate states at war, in what experts say is major shift from viewing South as compatriots
Book review: A deep dive into the obscure world of North Korean animation
In ‘The Complete Encyclopaedia of North Korean Anime,’ a Japanese IT worker explores seven decades of DPRK cartoons
