North Korean Teenagers Sentenced to 12 Years of Hard Labor for Watching K-Dramas
A chilling video showing the apparent conviction of two 16-year-old North Korean boys to 12 years of hard labor for watching South Korean soap operas recently went viral online. In a video obtained by the BBC, two young boys in grey uniforms can be seen on a stage surrounded by hundreds of people as they […]
Military-First Girls – Japan’s All-Girl Fan Club Dedicated to North Korean Culture
Relations between North Korea and Japan grow increasingly tumultuous by the day as the fear of nuclear war rises to a fever pitch. But despite the tense political climate, a group of Japanese girls fascinated by DRPK culture continue to profess their love for North Korean music, posters and fashion, by posing in military outfits […]
Pyongyang Cafe – A Small Piece of North Korea on the Spanish Coast
Entering North Korea is not the easiest or safest thing to do for foreigners, but curious tourists can now experience a small piece of North Korean culture in the Mediterranean city of Tarragona, where a small bar founded to promote Kim Jong-Un’s totalitarian regime recently opened. Alejandro Cao de Benos, the founder of Pyongyang Cafe, is the only Westerner […]
You Might Not Want to Go There, but North Korea Is One of the World’s Last Havens for Birds
North Korea may be one of the world’s least tourist-friendly countries on Earth, but its strategic location along the avian East Asian Australasian Flyway and complete lack of development is preventing the extinction of several once plentiful species of migratory birds. Around fifty million birds, from tiny song birds to cranes, journey across the East Asian […]
Meet the Moranbong Band – North Korea’s Version of Spice Girls
Believe it or not, North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, is actually a big fan of K-pop music. In fact, he’s so passionate about it that he hand-picked every member of the girl group ‘Moranbong Band’ – his country’s answer to the Spice Girls. As a result of Kim Jong-un’s endorsement, the band has been […]
North Korea’s Amazingly Choreographed Human Mosaics
Take tens of thousands of children, place them in the largest stadium in the world, arm them with giant colored flip-books containing hundreds of colored panels, train them to move in perfect unison and you get the awe-inspiring human mosaics of the Arirang Mass Games, in North Korea. The Arirang Festival Mass Games held in Pyongyang, […]