Inside North Korea’s obsession with dominating girls soccer

The sport has become something of an athletic arbitrage for the country, which figures other nations won’t subject preteens ...

Inside North Korea's Benidorm-style beach resort with tight controls on visitors

The resort includes all the elements of a sunshine holiday, from a beach to waterslides, yet only carefully vetted people will be able to put their feet up and enjoy a stay in the secretive country ...

Inside North Korea: How one family built the world's most secretive nation

North Korea, a secluded totalitarian state ruled by the Kim family for seven decades, emerged after the division of the Korean peninsula post-WWII. Founded by Kim Il Sung, the regime's ideology of ...
The Diplomat

How North Korea Uses an 80-Year-Old Youth Group to Control Society

The Socialist Patriotic Youth League offers a window into how the North Korean authorities uses state-run organizations to ...

Peace with North Korea Is a fantasy, not pragmatism

Recognizing the immutable nature of the North Korean regime is not pessimism. It is realism -- what this moment demands of ...
UPI

A North Korean spring: evaluating the likelihood of political change in the hermit kingdom

Dec. 31 (UPI) --Executive director's note: This paper is extracted from Mathew Ha's ongoing Ph.D. research. Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the overall social and political ...