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A report published from watchdog group 38 North suggests U.S. animation companies may have unwittingly used work from North Korea.

A report published from watchdog group 38 North suggests U.S. animation companies may have unwittingly used work from North Korea.

A newly obtained video of Pyongyang sentencing two teenagers to labor camps for watching South Korean dramas reaffirms fears that Pyongyang is intensifying its crackdown on the consumption of foreign media.

Experts are worried that North and South relations are at a new low, raising the alarm about a potential military outbreak.

Satellite imagery has indicated a high level of activity at North Korea’s main nuclear complex after leader Kim Jong-un ordered the production of weapons-grade nuclear material be ramped up.

The experts and analysts targeted in the campaign are influential in shaping international public opinion and foreign governments' policy toward North Korea

Above all else, North Korea is defined by its secrecy – this isolated nation tightly controls the flow of information into and out of its borders, and this is never more apparent than with its telecoms sector. In 2008, Egypt’s Orascom Group partnered with the state-owned Korea Post and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) to launch mobile provider Koryolink, but beyond this, so little information is disclosed regarding communications in North Korea that much of what we know is guesswork pie...