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Icy streets and cold noodles: North Korea’s brutal winters — in photos

Icy streets and cold noodles: North Korea’s brutal winters — in photos

Heavy snow transforms the country into a scenic winter wonderland, but freezing temperatures also bring new hardships

Icy streets and cold noodles: North Korea’s brutal winters — in photos
NK News
NK News December 25, 2021
Doctors say new antiviral pills could transform North Korea’s COVID response

Doctors say new antiviral pills could transform North Korea’s COVID response

DPRK could cheaply buy or even manufacture the promising medications, but distribution may still pose problems

Doctors say new antiviral pills could transform North Korea’s COVID response
Ethan Jewell
Ethan Jewell December 22, 2021
South Korean conservatives: Right on North Korea, wrong on everything else?

South Korean conservatives: Right on North Korea, wrong on everything else?

Elections tend to feature progressives who don’t get the DPRK and reactionaries out of step with 21st-century values

South Korean conservatives: Right on North Korea, wrong on everything else?
Rob York
Rob York December 22, 2021
Red Cross allocates $1.2 million to help North Korea combat COVID-19

Red Cross allocates $1.2 million to help North Korea combat COVID-19

Organization reports it has spent $760,000 so far, as it faces challenges sending items to DPRK due to border controls

Red Cross allocates $1.2 million to help North Korea combat COVID-19
Chaewon Chung
Chaewon Chung December 21, 2021
How history can help predict the next 10 years of Kim Jong Un’s rule

How history can help predict the next 10 years of Kim Jong Un’s rule

Predecessors Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il’s first decades in power suggest surprises in the years to come

How history can help predict the next 10 years of Kim Jong Un’s rule
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy December 21, 2021
Seeing past North Korean propaganda – NKNews Podcast Ep. 214
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Seeing past North Korean propaganda – NKNews Podcast Ep. 214

CNN correspondent Will Ripley discusses his interviews with prisoners, officials, locals and more on trips to the DPRK

Seeing past North Korean propaganda – NKNews Podcast Ep. 214
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot December 21, 2021
North Korea praises new food factories, but construction often dragged for years
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North Korea praises new food factories, but construction often dragged for years

Kim Jong Un pushed dog meat restaurant while border province built factories during year of acute food shortages

North Korea praises new food factories, but construction often dragged for years
Colin Zwirko
Colin Zwirko December 21, 2021
Longtime head of influential North Korea abductee group dies at 83

Longtime head of influential North Korea abductee group dies at 83

Shigeo Iizuka fought for the return of Japanese nationals taken to the DPRK after his sister was abducted in 1970s

Longtime head of influential North Korea abductee group dies at 83
Kosuke Takahashi
Kosuke Takahashi December 20, 2021
North Korea reports no COVID cases as Omicron looms large in state media

North Korea reports no COVID cases as Omicron looms large in state media

DPRK says it screened additional 1,464 people over two-week period as total tested nears 50,000

North Korea reports no COVID cases as Omicron looms large in state media
Bryan Betts
Bryan Betts December 20, 2021
10 years of Kim Jong Un: What should Washington do now about North Korea?

10 years of Kim Jong Un: What should Washington do now about North Korea?

Experts weigh the different options for the US as Kim Jong Un enters his second decade in power

10 years of Kim Jong Un: What should Washington do now about North Korea?
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll December 18, 2021