... had to sojourn a few months to monitor the process. "Pyongyang" is a graphic novel depicting the tweens between two flights. Don&# ... expect investigative journalism deep inside the country. "Pyongyang" is more the story of a failure to really enter North Korea. ... ;t expect tales of hunger and misery. "Pyongyang" is more the story of a slice of melon and isolation. That ...

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle Pretty fascinating. Not penetrating exactly, but honest and true to the writer's experience of life as an outsider inside a totalitarian state. It is pretty dull, occasionally terrifying, with flashes of the saddest stuff ever. View all my reviews >>

Pyongyang, November 24 (KCNA) — The Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies greeted its 60th birthday. President Kim Il Sung, who paid importance to the training of foreign language experts in the building of a new country, founded a university of foreign studies, the first of its kind in the country, in November, Juche 38 (1949). He

U.S. envoy in S.Korea; Pyongyang nuclear talks next - Windsor Star Stephen Bosworth, the first envoy sent by U.S. President Barack Obama to the North, is expected to arrive in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a three-day stay where he will meet top North Korean officials but not leader Kim Jong-il. Analysts expect the North 2 deer ...

By Peter Crail The United States has agreed to send a senior diplomat to Pyongyang Dec. 8 for bilateral discussions with North Korea to return that country to multilateral talks on denuclearization, U.S. officials announced last month. The announcement came just before President Barack Obama made his first trip to Asia Nov. 12-19. The North Korean nuclear issue was high on the agenda in meetings ...

... program just to get this pay-off. Remember, North Korea's nuclear program is now decades-old and involves massive sunk costs for which it gets nothing in return except nuclear weapons. But if Pyongyang is offered a sum it values more highly than nuclear weapons, perhaps there will be a change of heart. Remember, also, that we are talking about a particularly poor country here, ...

This week’s trip by a high-level United States envoy to Pyongyang indicates that the US is learning to live with a nuclear North Korea, writes the North’s unofficial spokesman. In return, the Kim Jong-il regime is ready to consider ending its nuclear weapons program, if the US signs a bilateral peace treaty, establishes full diplomatic ties and initiates global nuclear disarmament. - ...

Obama's stern words for Pyongyang in Seoul Top Story: U.S. President Barack Obama's much-watched three-day trip to China ended with more of ... he made a strong pronouncement against Iran and North Korea. He also said the U.S. envoy to North Korea will travel to Pyongyang for bilateral talks. Europe Uniting: Today, European leaders meet to select an E.U. president and foreign-policy chief. ...

... June this year. Forces from the UN and Republic of Korea led a counter-offensive on 15 September. |Pyongyang taken as UN retreats On This day 5th December 1950 Chinese troops have entered the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, as United Nations forces are pushed steadily back towards South Korea. The North Korean People's Army ( ...

The exchange rate between old and new currencies is 100 to 1 Korea has revalued its currency with 100 to 1 exchange rate between the old and new currencies. In an alleged bid to curb inflation and suppress its growing black market, North Korea implemented a currency revaluation on Monday, according to

My obsession with the freakishness that is North Korea led me to this article about North Korean designer jeans – now available in Sweden! Noko Jeans Apparently America only makes blue denim jeans, because North Korea only makes black denim jeans because they hate America so much. I guess they never studied 80’s fashions… $220 for jeans? How stupid is that? Did Kim Jong-il ...

SEOUL, South Korea - President Barack Obama's envoy began a rare trip to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-level talks with the communist nation in more than a year as a senior U.S. official warned of strong sanctions against Pyongyang unless it rejoins international nuclear talks. Envoy ...

Bruce Bawer: "It's amazing how this city has been transformed into something that resembles Pyonyang North Korea. As you walk through the downtown area, you're just surrounded by big banners, designs and displays, all of which are designed to, just like the big placards in North Korea, to remind the masses what they're supposed to be considering holy." H/T Vlad

North Korea has accepted an offer of assistance from Seoul in the fight against A (H1N1) influenza. During a meeting of officials from both countries in the border town of Panmunjom, South Korea agreed to send a supply of Tamiflu to its northern neighbour. On Wednesday, North Korea confirmed that a number of people had been diagnosed with A (H1N1). South Korea offered to send medicines ...

The relationship between the two Koreas appears to be that between two siblings that never quite got along. North Korea is the psychotic one, constantly threatening the other one with violence, while South Korea would be called the normal one, constantly bribing its Cain-ish sibling by providing financial aid, yet still having dirt thrown its face. One can’t help but get the feeling that North ...