North Korea
News, analysis, and opinions about the US relationship with North Korea and its dictator, Kim Jong Un.
Experts are urging Trump to act now, while he still can.
In a shocking interview, he took jabs at the crucial US ally.
North Korea doesn’t just have nukes. It also has a ton of artillery and chemical weapons. Yay.
Finnish journalist Mika Mäkeläinen captured rare video of daily life in the Hermit Kingdom.
The Senate’s field trip to the White House appears to have gone ... poorly.
However, it was Mitch McConnell, not the White House, who convened the briefing.
China ultimately sees North Korea as an asset.
Also known as “The Case of the Missing Aircraft Carrier” or “Dude, Where’s My Aircraft Carrier?”
The president needs to brush up on his history.
Jonathan Pollack says a preemptive strike, though unlikely, would be devastating if it happened.
It’s been a scary few days on the Korean Peninsula. Here’s what’s happening.
Good God.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s comments on North Korea sounded tough, but experts aren’t convinced.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula just got a lot hotter. Here’s what’s going on.
North Korea denied responsibility for the murder of Kim Jong Nam. Here’s what we know.
Where North Korea’s nuclear program came from — and why the Hermit Kingdom is so committed to it in the first place.
Some experts are bashfully proposing an odd theory for why Kim Jong Un set off another nuclear bomb.
The Hermit Kingdom makes a lot more sense when you know its roots: Japanese fascism.
North Korea says it has tested a hydrogen bomb. What’s a hydrogen bomb?
A very brief history of the Hermit Kingdom and how it got this way.
North Korea claims to have just tested a powerful kind of nuclear weapon. Here’s what we know about whether that’s true — and why it matters.
No, we don’t know what it means either.
It’s probably going to be fine. Probably.
North Korea and South Korea are having a tense moment. That doesn’t mean they’ll go to war.
North Koreans are simply unable to access the service, and would be smart not to use it, even if they could.
The US carpet-bombed vast civilian areas, killing thousands of people. It was almost certainly a war crime.
A North Korean tourism company released an amazing instructional video for dancing.
“The special economic zones of the DPRK are attracting the world’s attention,” the video says. Well, they certainly are now.
A basic guide to North Korea’s infamous labor camps, how they work, and why they exist.
Inside the tiny, closed, super-elite world of North Korea’s internet users.
The US has never claimed responsibility, but the House Homeland Security chair just hinted it may have been a US cyber response to the Sony hacks.
Pyongyang said it would serve America right for its “warmongering.”
Yes, believe it or not, there were some North Koreans not yet under US sanctions.
Portraying the movie as an act of defiance against Kim Jong Un buys into his propaganda and helps him stay in power.
@DPRK_news tweets Onion links and demands that “gangster fat man George R.R. Martin” be punished, but it keeps get treated like an official North Korean Twitter account. Here’s why.
“The incarnation of all sorts of evil, the empire of devils, is bound to grow old and go to ruin.”