Rimjingang Takes Covert Journalism to the Next Level
The first English language edition of Rimjingang is about to come out. It will be a dead-tree quarterly, and thus far, Rimjingang has very little presence on YouTube. These are strange things to...
View ArticleRinjingang Video Shows the Misery of the Real North Korea
When you see all of those missiles paraded down the square in Pyongyang, do you ever ask yourself who paid for those missiles? Here are the people who paid for them. As you watch this, remember that...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Tribute Train
Several of you have written in or commented on the reports of a train carrying tribute for Kim Jong Eun derailing between Sinuiju and Pyongyang, North Korea, along with speculation that sabotage caused...
View ArticleNorth Korea Suffers Record Cold Amid Coal Shortage
In a worrisome new sign of catastrophic climate change, a record cold winter in North Korea suggests that the mere presence of two Current TV reporters may be enough to invoke The Gore Effect: Citing...
View ArticleSome Fascinating-if-True Reports from North Korea
Everyone knows that North Korea does a lot of things that we can’t explain without resorting to mostly groundless speculation about its internal power politics. This goes beyond cultural differences. I...
View ArticleWhy they weep
This video ostensibly depicts North Koreans hysterically mourning a monster who terrorized, starved, and murdered millions of his subjects. This particular clip has accumulated more than seven million...
View ArticleNo Pyongyang Spring
You may not believe that Kim Jong Un learned to drive at age three, but he has managed to perform one miracle — making North Koreans long for the libertine halcyon era of Kim Jong Il: The ‘Dear Leader’...
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#NIGHTOUT with Daily NK: Support Free Media in North Korea
Joshua’s still away, but this is a first attempt at getting back to posting at least occasionally here. — Dan Bielefeld Even infrequent readers of One Free Korea will recognize the important role the...
View ArticleN. Korean security forces shooting each others’ officers, and Jang Song Thaek...
Three weeks ago, the Joongang Ilbo reported that North Korea had publicly executed 80 people in seven provincial cities for such “crimes” as Bible possession and watching porn. Norkromancers took note...
View ArticleN. Korea’s new “reign of terror” stirs fear, flushes out dissent
Rimjingang, the guerrilla news service that brought us the footage we’ll see in Frontline: Secret State of North Korea, has published a spate of reports that give credence to Park Geun-Hye’s prediction...
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If a building falls in Pyongyang and AP doesn’t hear it, why the fuck is it...
This weekend, we hear news of a terrible tragedy in Pyongyang, the collapse of a 23-story apartment building in the central Phyongchon District. The building was still under construction, but...
View ArticleN. Korea Perestroika Watch: Man executed for calling China
The Daily NK provides us some updates on Kim Jong Un’s ongoing crackdown on unauthorized contact with the outside world, via sources in North Hamgyeong Province, in the far northeast: The North Korean...
View ArticleFor those of you in Europe, some North Korean exiles will give their insider...
… of the North Korean government at Leiden University on September 17th and 18th. One of them will be Jang Jin-Sung of New Focus International, author of “Dear Leader.” The names of the other exiles...
View ArticleKim Jong Un has abandoned that plan to build 100,000 homes in Pyongyang …
according to The Daily NK’s sources, one of whom expressed the same reaction I had: “Perhaps he’s worried there will be another collapse and has pulled out of it.” In a few cases, “people with money,”...
View ArticleThe Asahi Shimbun looks at corruption in North Korea …
from the perspective of a former truck driver and chauffeur, tarnished by bad songbun. Along the way, the man relates a story of an act of symbolic resistance: Q: Is it true that you witnessed the...
View ArticleNorth Koreans buying solar panels to generate electricity.
This trends is being driven by the falling price of Chinese solar panels, and no doubt, by growing demand as well. Solar panels have become among the assets considered essential for life in North Korea...
View ArticleNew building built on site of deadly Pyongyang collapse
I’m not sure the speed of that reconstruction should give the new residents much confidence. It’s another great piece of reporting by NK News.
View ArticleTokyo Shimbun: Another deadly collapse in Pyongyang
Oh, and wait till you hear where: Last October, a collapse accident at a construction site for a new National Defense Commission Building, saw 80 people lose their lives, according to a Tokyo Shimbun...
View ArticleStage Five Watch
Over the last year, this site has carefully tracked reports about the popularity or (more often) the unpopularity of Kim Jong-Un. Throughout the summer and fall of this year, numerous reports have...
View ArticleNo Pyongyang Spring
You may not believe that Kim Jong Un learned to drive at age three, but he has managed to perform one miracle — making North Koreans long for the libertine halcyon era of Kim Jong Il: The ‘Dear Leader’...
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