The two-faced tactics and time-tested tricks of tyrants
The three dictatorships of the last century which diabolically mastered the black arts of political trickery and diplomatic two-faced tactics - Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia,...
Kim highlights power plant construction…Ignores people’s suffering
Kim Jong-un last week opened a new power plant, praising the patriotic “self-reliance” of the people, seemingly oblivious to the actual burdens placed on them...
Noblesse Oblige and Sunshine 4.0 — FDR and Stalin, Lee Jae-myung and Kim Jong-un
The French term "noblesse oblige," which literally translates as "nobility obligates," is defined in various English language dictionaries as the notion that certain people having...
Why are mothers the first to go hungry?
Who is the first to go hungry in a North Korean household? It is always the mother. Women are both victims of the regime and...
The new generation, a quiet awakening amid control
North Korea’s young generation is changing. Though still under strict surveillance, questions about the regime and a yearning for a different world are quietly growing...
Some myths regarding “demonization” of the North Korean regime, comedic mockery of Its dictator, and “dehumanization” of the people
Suzanne Labin was a French intellectual, originally of socialist views, who came to be a critic of totalitarian communist regimes. She authored a book entitled...
Can a female leader emerge in patriarchal North Korea?
Kim Jong-un has been repeatedly exposing his daughter, Kim Ju-ae, to public events, fueling discourse around leadership succession. Her appearances go beyond simply showcasing the...
What will bring change to North Korea?
Once thought of as the most rigid of societies where change was not possible under the heavy grip of dictatorship and indoctrination, North Korea has...
Evolving North Korean rights abuses – state-sponsored human trafficking
Young North Korean men sent to fight Russia’s war in Ukraine are caught up in a new kind of modern-day slavery. They have no idea...
Marathons, memes, and misunderstanding: The West’s flawed view of North Korea
On April 6, when Scottish YouTuber Lewis Buchan set off through the streets with thousands of other runners at the start of the annual Pyongyang...
How pro-North Korean activists and their friends tried to suppress a human rights documentary
By Lawrence Peck When Leo McCarey, director and producer of “Going My Way,” starring Bing Crosby as a Catholic priest, was testifying before Congress and...
Insight into a totalitarian, seditious mindset: What was said and applauded at a pro-North Korean, anti-American conference in New York
Given the ambitious title of the event, observers would have expected speakers at the "People's Summit for Korea" in New York City last month to...
North Korea’s embrace of the two-state theory a political death sentence for defectors
When U.S. President Donald Trump said he “gets along well with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader instantly fired back, calling the U.S. “a gangster...
A victory for America, Israel, and the Republic of Korea … in the Middle East and in Washington
The new leftist administration of President Lee Jae-myung, which is causing concerns in Washington for his independent (non-values based) foreign policy proclivities, seems to be...
The myth of the “genuinely and primarily nationalist” communist leaders Kim Il-sung and Mao Zedong
Korea's March 1, 1919, protest movement, like China's May 4, 1919 movement, gave voice and impetus to a growing sense of nationalism, in the modern...
The problem of anxiety inherent in capitalism
Why must capitalism lead to prosperity? Why must socialism lead to poverty? These were questions I had long before leaving North Korea. I suspect many...
What happens when cinema loses its freedom
Films have a great influence on our lives, whether we realize it or not. I can show this through my own life. If it weren’t...
“Rope selling” and “rope supporting” — Lenin’s lessons for South Korean and American politicians, Left and Right
Among the many absurd claims of North Korea's propaganda in promoting the cult of the hereditary Kim dynasty is that Kim Jong-il, as a very young boy,...