Defectors back ruling party this time in National Assembly elections
In the lead up to the parliamentary elections in South Korea on April 10, the campaigns of some North Korean defectors are gaining attention. These...
“Music Politics” Shows the Changing View of Women in North Korea
In recent years, the changing role of women in North Korean society, brought on by the famine of the 1990s, has become apparent through the...
Latest Study Guides for Ideological Indoctrination
The ruling Workers’ Party produced its annual Study Guide last month, which provides a rare window into political indoctrination and the devotion with which everyone from top officials to ordinary workers is expected to approach it.
Kim Jong Un Remains Engrossed in Self-Praise While His People Starve to Death
Following Kim Jong Un’s declaration in 2022 that North Korea is an “irreversible” nuclear weapons state, North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament met on September 26-27, 2023, and formally enshrined North Korea’s nuclear status in its constitution.