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Sign up Kim recently took his father’s title, but that’s only going to weaken his rule Trashing Kim Jong Ils legacy will only serve to undermine the very bloodline Kim Jong Un draws his legitimacy from SHARE Image: Rodong Sinmun The following article is a column by Andrei Lankov, a professor at Kookmin University and a director at Korea Risk Group, which oversees NK News and NK Pro. Views expressed in opinion articles and columns are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those...

Nighttime in Pyongyang: Aesthetics and Deterrence Under Kim Jong Un By focusing exclusively on the traditional hard power implications of North Korea’s missile systems, analysts are missing much of Pyongyang’s strategy. By January 30, 2021 Advertisement North Korea and its nuclear weapons program are often analyzed through the lens of hard power — the power of coercion, achieved through military, technological, or economic force. Such analysis is important, but ...

SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's official newspaper on Wednesday urged the pe...

North Korea hopes to begin COVID-19 inoculations by the end of February at the earliest North Korea hopes to receive the same vaccines the South Korean government has selected, a source told Daily NK 2021.01.26 12:56pm North Korean authorities have reportedly informed international organizations of when they intend to begin COVID-19 inoculations. The country’s authorities are reportedly considering which vaccines they hope to use as well. According to a Daily NK source in North Korea on Sunda...

North Korea Tells Citizens Biden Is President in Passing Mention 25 Jan 2021 Communist-run media in North Korea — the only legal means of accessing information in the country — mentioned the fact that the United States has a new president for the first time in an article published Saturday, referring to President Joe Biden’s certification as the election winner in passing. The mention occurred in DPRK Today, a less visible government outlet than top newspaper  Rodong Sinmun or the Korea...

North Koreas propaganda outlet reports on Biden election

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Kim Jong-un acted quickly. On January 22, 2020, North Korea closed its borders with China and Russia to stop a new, mysterious virus from spreading into the country. At the time, what we now know as Covid-19 had killed just nine people and infected 400 others. More than a year later, the hermit kingdom’s border remains sealed tight shut. WIRED UK  This story originally appeared on WIRED UK.  North Korea’s respon...

Kim Won Jin / AFP / Getty Images Kim Jong-un acted quickly. On January 22, 2020, North Korea closed its borders with China and Russia to stop a new, mysterious virus from spreading into the country. At the time, what we now know as Covid-19, had killed just nine people and infected 400 others. More than a year later, the hermit kingdom’s border remains sealed tight shut. North Korea’s response to the pandemic has been one of the most extreme and paranoid in the world, experts say. The lockd...

“Wipe out the Korean Wave”: Prison Sentences and Family Banishments follow Kim Jong-un’s Direct Orders to Eliminate S. Korean Cultural Influence (2) 2021.01.22 (Photo) Leaflets created to blaspheme South Korea and President Moon Jae-in. As originally published by the Rodong Sinmun. Although it is not a recent phenomenon, the crackdown on the "Korean Wave" by the North Korean regime over the past year or so is enough to make one shudder. Young people have been publicly denounced at critici...

The Kim Jong-un regime has been holding mass rallies across the country to condemn North Korean defe