What if Sanctions Brought North Korea to the Brink? “Well, in 1941…”
Fluent in Korean and a specialist in North Korea’s economy, Mitsuhiro Mimura has visited North Korea 45 times since 1996,…
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Between Wishful Thinking and Realism: Hopes for a Pyongyang Spring
On September 20, 2016, the US Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) issued a call…
Propaganda Games: Reviewing Two Documentaries on North Korea
The Propaganda Game. Directed by Alvaro Longoria. Spain: Morena Films, 2015. DVD, 98 min. Under the Sun. Directed by Vitaly…
North Korea’s New Propagandist?
In late July 2015, the international media briefly shifted its attention to Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, when a defector-run…