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Biden marks the anniversary of the storming of the US Capitol: is American democracy in decline? Plus: what’s Putin’s endgame in Kazakhstan? And what role…

During the Trump years, North Korea was hardly ever out of the news. From the US President’s threats of ‘fire and fury’ against the rogue state, to…

Last month, the last international NGO worker and last remaining U.N. staff members left North Korea SHARE Image: NK Pro | Summer in Pyongyang (archive photo) The following article is written by John Everard, a former British ambassador to North Korea from 2006 to 2008 and a former member of the U.N. Panel of Experts on North Korea. North Korea has become more isolated and more opaque in the last year, and that could yield serious consequences for the future of foreign organizations that operate in the country. Last month, the last international representative of a foreign NGO and the last t...

Early in her new book about Isabel Rawsthorne, Carol Jacobi steps briefly out of her role as biographer to note conventions that bedevil art historians and biographers alike, particularly when addressing overlooked female artists. “Sex, conception and reproduction are marginalised events in art history, appropriated by biography, or neglected merely as such,” she writes. “They are particularly problematic when the artist is a woman, often set aside as ‘other’ to her art making or incorporated into a reduction of that making to self-reflexive illustrations of her life.” The event ...

Pyongyang hunkers down to explore next move Posted : 2021-04-04 16:47 By Nam Hyun-woo With its most recent missile launches further agitating international society, North Korea is becoming even more reclusive, maintaining its border closure and severing diplomatic ties with Malaysia. North Korea analysts say a series of recent moves hint at Pyongyang's growing efforts to limit information outflow and international accesses to the regime in order to prepare for its next moves against the ongoing international pressure on the Kim Jong-un regime. The United Nations last month said the world ...