Two North Korean footballers in Women’s World Cup caught in FIFA drug test...
How do you prepare for the Women’s World Cup with significantly less practice playing against other international teams than your opponents? Pump your athletes full of ‘roids. Two defenders, Song...
View ArticleFrance opening a “Cooperation Bureau” (not an embassy) in Pyongyang.
France, the only nation in the European Union to have no diplomatic relationship with the DPRK, has announced that it will be opening a “cultural cooperation” office in Pyongyang. From the AFP: France...
View ArticleIn the heels of AP enhancing relations with KCNA, now Reuters has upgraded...
Hot on the heels of the announcement that the Associated Press is expanding its facilities in Pyongyang, Reuters has now also announced that it will be setting up a satellite dish for video and text...
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Mt. Kumgang resort negotiations break down as North refuses to deal with SK...
In July 2008, a 53 year old South Korean woman, on one of Hyundai Asan’s tours in the Mt. Kumgang resort jointly run by North and South Korea, was shot dead by North Korean soldiers for allegedly...
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The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, SK, and how inter-Korean relations...
PyeongChang, South Korea was recently awarded the Winter Olympics in a landslide vote from the International Olympic Committee. As has happened in the past for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, the...
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Associated Press pulls photoshopped image from KCNA of DPRK flooding.
The above photo, acquired by Martyn Williams of North Korea Tech (I seem to be linking him a lot, lately!) appears to show North Koreans struggling with dangerously high flood levels as a result of a...
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Three more North Korean woman footballers fail doping tests in Women’s World...
The plot thickens in the case of the North Korean Women’s Football team testing positive for anabolic steroids in this past Women’s World Cup. From the HuffPo: Five North Korea players have tested...
View ArticleStatic content makeover + a change to the way this blog & Twitter feed will...
As the post history of this site may suggest, I’d taken some time away from the aggregation of North Korea-related news to this blog. It really wasn’t turning into what I wanted it to be, I wasn’t...
View ArticleIn the mood for an evening of nationalistic NK-Pop?
Pour yourself a glass of wine and light a few candles. Enjoy some popular music from the DPRK, courtesy of Last.fm: Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble – 북한 – Whistle ("Fiparam") 내 나라 제일로 좋아 – My Country is...
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Kim Jong-Il dead at 69.
You heard it here last – Dear Leader and Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army, Marshall Kim Jong-Il died early Monday according to state-run television KCNA. He apparently died on his private...
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