| 单词 | North Korean |
| 例句 | Then, one morning, a North Korean officer summoned Blake to accompany him to a village nearly an hour's walk away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But, as Shin found out, they are quite willing to ignore national directives when presented with an industrious North Korean who keeps his mouth shut and works hard for sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Since 2002, the Beijing government had been attempting—with considerable success—to stop North Koreans from rushing into foreign embassies and consulates to seek asylum. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Park, during the four weeks he had lectured Shin on how the world worked, had also been sharply critical of the North Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The North Korean government could hardly set the record straight, since it denies that Camp 14 exists. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They could have been American or North Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Their behavior and their desperation is described in Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick’s book about how ordinary North Koreans endured the famine years. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The government’s Public Distribution System, which had fed most North Koreans since the 1950s, collapsed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Only North Korean soldiers on patrol everywhere, their tan uniforms looking drab and dusty. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Most of the people he encountered were not alarmed by or interested in North Koreans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When I interviewed Jenkins, he and his family lived on Japan’s remote Sado Island, where his wife was born and where North Korean agents had kidnapped her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In this respect, he was like many North Korean defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On the way home, she passed by Main Street and was shocked to see it filled with North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had decided that the camp, with its high-voltage fence and factories that churned out military uniforms, glassware, and cement, needed a reliable local source of electricity, and fast. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z To force traders to pay, North Korean security forces invented a new twist on labor camps of the sort that Shin was born in. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But then one day, every single one of the North Korean soldiers were gone. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “It’s not that hard. Instead of seeing us as these horrible words, see us as people. My name is not commie or chink or dog eater or North Korean spy. My name is Junie.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It was a belated admission that tens of thousands of famine-stricken North Koreans had already gone to China and that the country was increasingly dependent on their remittances. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The indifference of South Korean society to the issue of North Korean rights is so awful.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the past decade, the United States government and law enforcement agencies around the world have documented that some of these North Koreans are involved in criminal enterprises that funnel hard currency to Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But giving shelter to three North Koreans had annoyed the farmer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Sunjin’s house was busy, North Korean soldiers coming in and out, Sunjin’s mom serving them, but with a strained expression on her face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Nine out of ten households traded to survive.1 More and more North Koreans sneaked across the border into China for food, work, trade, and flight to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Shin was nine years old when the North Korean caste system knocked him on the head. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Considerable airtime is devoted to the comfortable lives, by North Korean standards, of defectors living in South Korea, where they receive housing and other subsidies from the government in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Some of the guerrillas were actual North Korean soldiers who crossed over to recruit, mostly kidnap, young South Korean men. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He spent most of his time in LiNK’s office, where he read North Korean news on the Web and chatted with Korean-speaking staff. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Listen, those are mostly local Reds. The North Korean Army isn’t here yet.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The number of North Koreans seeking asylum in South Korea has increased nearly every year since 1995. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Chinese employers are also free to cheat, abuse, or get rid of their North Korean help at any time. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Several times they hid as trucks and North Korean soldiers marched by them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The consulate was comfortable, South Korean officials were helpful, and there was another North Korean defector inside the consulate to talk to. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At each church, he asked to speak to the pastor, explaining that he was a North Korean in need of help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Numerical evidence can be found in the large number of North Koreans—about forty-five hundred—who arrived in South Korea in 2006 and 2007. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He drank ten beers, stumbled across the world’s most heavily militarized border, and surrendered his M14 rifle to startled North Korean soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I wanted to leave long ago! Before the North Koreans arrived!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In the summer of 2004, in the largest single mass defection, South Korea flew 468 North Koreans from Vietnam to Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The farmer said he had once employed two North Korean defectors and that they had been useful workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At the border and inside the country, the North Korean government has tried to crush these smuggling operations—and periodically it succeeds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Chun and several other Seoul-based operatives told me that given enough money they could get virtually any North Korean out of the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He had been cheated, but like all North Koreans working in China he was in no position to protest. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z By the time Shin hit the road, defectors themselves, many of them former North Korean military and police officers, had taken over the trade and were quietly running for-profit operations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Mao offered moral support and—more important—the promise of military backing to his North Korean neighbors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In South Korea, North Korean defectors routinely quit their jobs, claiming they have been singled out for persecution. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They did not know that tens of thousands of North Koreans had abandoned their homes and were walking into China in search of food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “That’s because the North Koreans did not consider South Korean soldiers to be prisoners of war, protected under the Geneva Convention. Instead, they considered them to be fellow citizens who were committing war crimes.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A second agreement in 1986 committed China to sending North Korean defectors back home, where they often face arrest, torture, and months or years of forced labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After international investigators confirmed that a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan, voters in the South refused to rally around President Lee, who had said the North Korean government should “pay a price.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It extended barbed wire and built new concrete barriers.3 China, too, increased border security to discourage North Koreans from entering the country in the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Without intending to do so, wealthy donor countries injected a kind of adrenaline rush into the grubby world of North Korean street trading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The young North Korean border guard had been watching Shin’s progress. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At the Database Center, where staff members had been working with North Koreans for years, Shin was viewed as a kind of rough-hewn prodigy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Sorry, ladies, your favorite North Korean dictator is off the market,” teased a headline on MSN Now. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z By 2008, many North Korean defectors were so deeply in debt to the smugglers that the South Korean government changed the way it distributed cash support. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Instead, the truck continued on to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, passing through a hellish landscape of burned-out villages and rotting corpses along the way. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He failed to stop his opponents from ripping apart most of the bags containing anti- North Korean leaflets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z LiNK has a strict no-dating rule between North Korean refugees and interns, many of whom are college age and far from their parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But he did not have detailed information about where to cross it or what bribes would be acceptable to the North Korean guards who patrol along its southern bank. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The middle of town was still empty of villagers but full of North Korean soldiers patrolling the area. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In his memoir about six years in two of the camps, Kim Yong, a former lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, says the appeal of suicide was “overwhelming.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He said police had warned him that very morning not to help North Koreans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Suicide is a powerful temptation for North Koreans plucked out of ordinary lives and subjected to the labor camps’ regime of hard labor, hunger, beatings, and sleep deprivation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Around the time that Shin and Park were formulating their escape plan, the North Korean government concluded that the border had become far too porous and posed a threat to internal security. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Since escaping the camp, Shin had been struggling to learn what normal behavior was for North Koreans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Seven years later, when the North Korean government launched a disastrous currency reform that impoverished and enraged tens of thousands of traders, the news was reported within hours by Free North Korea Radio. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The lyrics of “Song of the Winter Solstice,” which recent defectors say is the theme song of a popular program on North Korean state television, are about traveling companions who endure hardship and pain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Jinjoo bowed deeply and thanked the man and then noticed that he was a North Korean soldier. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z To keep the fall crop of daikon from freezing during the cold months, North Koreans sometimes bury them in mounds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The only North Koreans considered trustworthy enough to become guards in political prison camps were men like An Myeong Chul, the son of a North Korean intelligence officer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Shin threw away the stolen, ill-fitting clothes that identified him as a North Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She also said he had an advantage over other North Koreans: he had not been contaminated by propaganda or the cult of personality that surrounds the Kim dynasty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For North Koreans who did not have them, travel permits were hard to come by. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “What United States Navy ship was once captured by the North Koreans?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The North Korean missile detonates prematurely, but the aggressive act puts the world’s nations on high alert. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In violation of United Nations resolutions, North Koreans have also sold rockets and nuclear weapons technology to countries including Iran and Syria, according to U.N. officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Private markets, which today supply most of the food North Koreans eat, have become the fundamental reason why most outside experts say a catastrophic 1990s-style famine is unlikely to happen again. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At the border, North Korean authorities detained Park and his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "We spent that night burning our codes and secret documents in a sheltered corner of the garden in the hope that the bonfire would not attract the attention of the North Korean military." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They went into the police station, which was now full of North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The North Koreans had shown no mercy, even to wounded men who could do no harm. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z On the way through town, a group of North Korean soldiers stopped them and ordered them out of the truck. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It was all about President Johnson trying to get a bill passed to help the urban poor, and then something about the Pueblo, which had been taken over by the North Koreans. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Career counselors at Hanawon say most North Koreans have similar experiences of exile. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The family, which has befriended a number of North Korean immigrants, lives in Riverside, a city sixty miles east of Torrance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The government classified and, to a considerable extent, segregated the entire North Korean population based on the perceived reliability of an individual’s parents and grandparents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Pyongyang was particularly enraged by South Korean and American initiatives that made it easier for North Korean defectors who had crossed into China to travel even farther, and settle in the West. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She offered to buy it for four thousand North Korean won, which was worth about four dollars at black-market exchange rates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Rules were the same in other North Korean labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After the service, as the remaining worshippers gathered outside the church, news whipsawed through the crowd that North Korean troops had crossed the 38th parallel. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What had it been like to serve in the North Korean military? Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Following a skillful amphibious landing, more than 75,000 American and South Korean troops punched forward against the North Korean army. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The North Korean government turned him into an actor who always played an evil Caucasian face in propaganda movies that demonized the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At Hanawon, the resettlement center in South Korea, job counselors say that workplace paranoia, stormy resignations, and lingering feelings of betrayal are chronic problems as North Koreans adjust to new lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After her third year in college, she decided to leave school and get involved full time in the North Korean issue. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Other urgent and patriotic tasks that North Koreans have been urged to shoulder include “Let’s Breed More High-Yielding Fish!,” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The numbers were double that of Angola, then at the end of a long civil war, and the North Korean government became furious when they were released to the public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The propaganda can be quite creative: the famine was repackaged as the “Arduous March,” a patriotic struggle that North Koreans were encouraged to win with the inspiring slogan: “Let’s Eat Two Meals Per Day.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Outside the camp, too, chronic shortages have removed rice from the daily diets of many North Koreans, especially those in the hostile classes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I think it’s because the North Koreans took all our food,” Eunjoo said in a worried tone. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z LiNK pushes the North Koreans it helps bring to the United States to make a “life plan” soon after they arrive. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One night, when the rest of the prisoners were sleeping, Blake approached the North Korean guardhouse, carrying a note written in Russian, asking for a meeting at the Russian embassy in Pyongyang. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Over the next two days, North Korean soldiers charged past the dividing line, scattering South Korea's military forces. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not funny. We don’t want North Korean Communist pigs here!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Beijing’s distaste for North Korean defectors, as enforced by police and border soldiers, is well understood by farmers, factory foremen, and other bosses in China’s northeast provinces. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Oh, I see, because the North Koreans had taken over.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The compounds were often small, with few guards and not much fencing, but during their brief stays inside, many North Koreans said they routinely witnessed executions and deaths from torture and starvation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It is difficult to overstate the importance of rice in North Korean culture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Her mother had been too afraid to let them out ever since the North Korean Army had advanced into Incheon. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Three North Korean agents grabbed her at dusk near a beach, stuffed her into a black body bag, and stole her away on a ship. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Outside Seoul, I talked to a North Korean defector who had paid twelve thousand dollars to a broker to smuggle out her eleven-year-old son in 2002. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was fetching water from a brook near the farm when he met two other North Korean defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Eomma, was it the North Koreans? Are they going to kill us all?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z At Hanawon, many defectors flatly refuse to believe that this fundamental pillar of North Korean history is a lie. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Experienced interrogators, they conduct extensive interviews with every North Korean defector and have been trained to screen out the assassins that Kim Jong Il’s government periodically dispatched to the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The North Korean government has created new labor camps to hold traders and travelers too poor or too unlucky to bribe their way north. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Within days, the North Koreans discovered Blake and took him prisoner along with a group of British diplomats and civilians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Almost two months had passed since the North Koreans had taken over Seosan. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He said, too, that he was ashamed for stealing rice and clothing from poor North Koreans during his flight out of the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Traveling alone and keeping his mouth shut, he discovered that his face and his manner did not advertise his identity as a North Korean on the run. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Rice had become a precious commodity, to be kept safe from the North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z As the trickle of foreign videos turned into a flood, North Korean police became alarmed and came up with new tactics to arrest people who watched them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When the North Korean KPA had rolled into town five days before with a fleet of trucks and hundreds of men, they’d immediately taken over the town administration. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Activist pastors from South Korean churches invented the escape trade in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hiring border operatives who greased the palms of North Korean guards with cash donated by parishioners in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Taedong, as it flowed past Camp 14, was too wide and swift to freeze in the North Korean winter, which allowed dam construction to continue year round. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z North Korean defectors arriving in Seoul said that Chinese-made transistor radios had allowed them to listen to Chinese and South Korean stations, as well as to Radio Free Asia and Voice of America. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The North Koreans captured it, so the Americans must be here to help us win it back.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The capacity of the Chinese borderlands to absorb North Koreans is significant—and significantly underappreciated outside of Northeast Asia. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It shocked him to see North Koreans going about their daily lives without having to take orders from guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They did so, legal analysts said, because they had foolishly signed contracts in which they agreed to be bound by North Korean law. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He declined to socialize or work with other North Koreans who had been released from labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Every day, new patients would come in after being savagely beaten by North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z There’s really no bright side to discern from this week’s bizarre, unprecedented spectacle involving Sony Pictures and “The Interview,” a Seth Rogen-James Franco satire about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony, ‘The Interview’ and the unspoken truth that all movies are political 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Organizers said it is the first time since 2003 that the festival will present a movie directed by a North Korean. SKorean film festival to feature NKorean comedy 2012-09-10T11:58:17Z Releasing the Seth Rogen comedy that features the fictionalized assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives moviegoers a chance to see the controversial piece on schedule. Sony's decision to release 'Interview' is no tidy solution 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z So he shows some footage of the North Korean team's visit to a zoo, and a lion playing football. World Cup Live: England v USA 2010-06-14T05:45:00Z Darkness proved to be a surprising boon; some North Koreans told her they grew to need it, as it conferred the only freedom they knew. ‘Eat the Buddha’ Reports From the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z We watch a North Korean guide put workers through several takes at the milk plant until they display the proper level of enthusiasm. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Sir Adrian warns the prime minister that the supposed North Korean denuclearization is a scam — that if they have destroyed one nuclear facility they have simply hidden another one elsewhere. Review | At 80, Frederick Forsyth has produced a classic thriller that’s also eerily relevant 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The film, which depicts a fictional assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is thought to be at the center of the devastating cyberattack that crippled the studio late last year. Netflix shares surge on subscriber growth 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Wild Goose Dreams A woman who defected from North Korean begins an online romance with a lonely South Korean man in Hansol Jung’s new drama. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 3-10: 'Once' at South Coast Rep and more 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The warning adds that “being a member of a group tour or using a tour guide will not prevent North Korean authorities from detaining or arresting you.” North Korea Tour Options Dwindle for Americans. But Not by Much. 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Among the most important things to understand about North Korean behavior then and now, Mr. Cumings writes, is the longtime enmity between Korea and Japan. Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z Because I had to play a North Korean. Wally Green’s unlikely path from gang member to ping-pong star 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z In fact, Kim Jong Il, in the 1970s and '80s was a key figure in the North Korean propaganda system, overseeing the creation of a mythology surrounding his father and, to a lesser extent, himself. Are tears for North Korea's 'Dear Leader' real? 2011-12-22T00:23:00Z The army invading the United States in "Red Dawn," an ill-advised remake of the campy 1984 original, was changed in post-production from Chinese to North Korean. Review: A dizzyingly implausible new 'Red Dawn' 2012-11-20T21:05:22Z There is some evidence that Kim was realistic about the true feelings of the North Korean people. Are tears for North Korea's 'Dear Leader' real? 2011-12-22T00:23:00Z For many international delegates, the primary attraction of the festival is the experience of watching films alongside North Koreans, despite an awareness that they are interacting with only a privileged section of Pyongyang society. In North Korea, an International Film Festival Where ‘Self-Reliance’ Is the Star 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Junie’s grandfather shares his heartwrenching memories of his tight-knit town being torn apart in the wake of the North Korean invasion when he was 12. Ellen Oh’s New Middle Grade Novel Is Not a Fantasy 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Despite the array of imagery portraying North Korean workers as muscular, heroic figures, Bonner said it us unlikely that the exhibition’s propaganda component would win the regime any new supporters. Design and dictatorship: exhibition celebrates North Korean graphics 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Reporting from Beijing— Chu Sung-ha says he knows for sure that some of the people shown sobbing on television over the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il are faking it. Are tears for North Korea's 'Dear Leader' real? 2011-12-22T00:23:00Z The film is rich in visual detail that the filmmakers hope will appeal to foreign as well as North Korean audiences. Romantic comedy gets twist from NKorean acrobats 2012-09-07T12:01:04Z North Koreans are no longer abstract, distant characters South Koreans fear or sympathize with. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z But the North Koreans did, in fact, stop and listen and show genuine appreciation for our music. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The six-year struggle to get the film made was partly the result of opposition from the North Korean film-making establishment, who simply didn't get the story. Comrade Kim Goes Flying: it's North Korea as you've never seen it before 2013-06-26T15:35:20Z Many are currently in operation within Seoul, but, unlike the Pyongyang Pub, they don’t brandish portraits of North Korean leaders. North Korean-themed restaurant in Seoul removes images of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il after backlash 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z When the Syrian military awoke the next morning, the reactor being built with North Korean help was a smoking hole in the ground, as were some associated facilities. Obama Sees Limited Options for Cyberwar in Syria 2014-02-24T22:03:46Z In "Die Another Day," Bond battles North Korean bad guys and at one point is taken prisoner and tortured for 14 months, ultimately emerging as a darker and more dangerous man. Six North Korea-themed movies that beat Rogen and Franco to the punch 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z These places, however, are relatively rare — and many don’t advertise their North Korean roots. Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z Park also incorporated stories about other North Koreans he knows into the main character. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z The hackers have demanded that Sony cancel the Dec. 25 release of the Seth Rogen comedy "The Interview," which depicts a fictional assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony hack draws lawsuits by former employees 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z He also said that he’s getting nervous that it will due to the increasingly high tensions between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Stephen Colbert imagines a fate for North Korea worse than Trump’s “fire and fury” 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z At the outset, North Korean scientists develop a chemical called NK3 that can rob people of their memories. ‘NK3’: A dystopian thriller from Michael Tolkin, author of ‘The Player’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman called the movie an "act of terrorism" in June, promising "merciless" retaliation if it was released. A guide to the Sony Pictures hack 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Harden got the nod for his thoroughly gripping and compelling book “Escape from Camp 14,” the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only known person born in a North Korean prison camp to escape and survive. Fall book sale and other literary events in and around Seattle 2013-09-13T22:55:26Z Rogen said on Monday the film goes to great lengths to separate the regime ruling North Korea from the North Korean people themselves, saying they are "victims of a horrible situation." Rogen defends satirizing North Korean leader in 'The Interview' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z That’s because by changing the attackers to North Koreans, the filmmakers have paid him a great compliment by making his country a Hollywood villain. Movie Review: ‘Red Dawn’ Remake Trades Soviets for North Koreans 2012-11-21T00:08:48Z Terrorists from an unidentified but probably North Korean country launch an attack on the White House, killing dozens of people. Olympus Has Fallen – but no one could fall for Gerard Butler in this 2013-01-31T13:10:32Z Not quite all North Korean art consists of rosy-cheeked farmers and soldiers alongside slogans exhorting the masses to work hard to advance the nation or vanquish imperialists. South Korea's 'Hidden Treasures' shows another side of North Korea art 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Are you worried about North Korean rockets reaching Kauai, where you live? Todd Rundgren: 'Every once in a while I took a trip and never came back' 2013-05-01T15:42:00Z An exhibition in this satellite city, just several miles south of the DMZ that separates the Koreas, is displaying the nonpolitical side of North Korean art. South Korea's 'Hidden Treasures' shows another side of North Korea art 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Theater in Woodridge, one of a handful of theaters in the Chicago area showing "The Interview," which includes a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Chicago-area moviegoers serious and silly about 'Interview' 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z He describes Kijong-dong, a prosperous-looking North Korean town in sight of its enemy to the south, "which turns out to have no glass in its windows nor rooms behind its doors". Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z The "Red Dawn" reboot portrayed North Korean invaders parachuting into the U.S., only to be beaten back by scrappy teenagers. Six North Korea-themed movies that beat Rogen and Franco to the punch 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z As a result, the movie's producers last winter used digital technology and creative editing to change most of the invaders to North Koreans. Remake of cold-war film 'Red Dawn' coming soon 2011-09-28T14:23:54Z No wonder my attempts at interviewing North Korean kids have never been very fruitful. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Central command suspects that a North Korean infiltrator has penetrated a combat unit fighting to hold a hilltop on what might become an armistice line, and sends an intelligence officer to investigate. The Carpetbagger: Fighting on Many Fronts in Foreign-Language Entries 2012-01-04T15:00:57Z And of course you saw him, somehow, some way, as North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un in "The Interview." Emmy chat: Join 'Fresh Off the Boat's' Randall Park on Thursday 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Monday that he was willing to send athletes to the Olympics, though he also repeated threats against the United States. South Korea invites North Korea to cooperate on Olympics 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z While Washington and Pyongyang are still technically at war, and hatred for the United States government is a constant in North Korean propaganda, American culture has always been quietly popular here. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z "The Journals of Musan" follows a North Korean defector to the south that struggles to fit in. Korea film fest honors defector, teen angst dramas 2010-10-15T13:20:00Z I think I forgot to show the North Koreans actually launching the missiles. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z But one of the things I discovered through my research is that most North Koreans can't tell their story. Pulitzer prize goes to novel about North Korea 2013-04-16T11:36:36Z South Korean colleagues raised concerns over the potential political issues and inaccuracies in the North Korean accents used in the film, and said the leading actors were "weak". Forget the politics, Sony executives say North Korea comedy 'desperately unfunny' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In the pages of Beijing Daily, the culture critic Li Hongyan bemoaned the fact that it took a North Korean opera company to remount a major production of a Chinese classic. North Korean Opera Draws Acclaim in China 2010-07-28T11:49:00Z I think many North Korean officials today are an echo of the conflicted nationalist Inspector O. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Yang, who grew up with a North Korean passport, switched allegiances in recent years and is now a South Korean citizen living in Japan. Film tells story of Japan's pro-NKorean residents 2012-10-06T13:06:10Z A few awards later, they brought on some help to hit another recent Hollywood hot button, the North Korean attacks on the film The Interview, and the industry’s response or lack thereof. From Cosby to 'Charlie,' This Golden Globes Had Something to Say 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z For both the World Cup and a North Korean beach vacation, one of the main activities is taking a dive. Style Invitational Week 1288: Your results may vary—write a funny disclaimer/warning 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z That image raises questions over just how authentically North Korean the art being shown at "Hidden Treasures" really is. South Korea's 'Hidden Treasures' shows another side of North Korea art 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z In international news, the United Nations Security Council, in its strongest response yet to continued North Korean missile tests, unanimously passes a resolution threatening to suspend Kim Jong Un’s Netflix account. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, covfefe and the Category 5 weirdness of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The FBI on Friday said the North Korean government was responsible. Sony CEO worried for months about 'The Interview,' emails show 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In 2011, Hollywood studio MGM went so far as to change the Chinese villains into North Korean ones in its Red Dawn remake. Wang Jianlin: does China's richest man have a plan to take over Hollywood? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z “The Red Chapel” was shown at a South Korean-run festival adjacent to the demilitarized zone, and Mr. Brugger said the North Korean authorities were aware of the film. Film: Filmmakers on North Korea: Restricted, but Not Deterred 2010-03-27T01:07:00Z Only, instead of paint, Ms. Ham commissions North Korean workers to embroider her canvases, smuggling them out of the country through China. Review: The 2015 Armory Show Overlaps History and Cultures 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The film depicts an assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Early Version of Screenplay for New Bond Film Stolen in Sony Hack 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z The embroideries, beautifully executed in long, even stitches, are a testament to North Korean craft expertise. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z "This is now a story of Americans changing their movie to make North Koreans happy," he wrote, in an email dated 15 August. Rogen 'objected to Jong-un film cut' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The upcoming comedy from Sony Pictures Entertainment, "The Interview," was expected to draw the ire of the North Korean government, with a plot that depicts a fictional assassination attempt on leader Kim Jong Un. Before Sony hacking, 'Interview' co-directors knew of N. Korea risk 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Pieces from the collection have recently gone on display at the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, in a rare presentation of North Korean art in the West. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z He reluctantly did so lest a refusal cause trouble for the guides leading the tour, but once he returned home, he began reading books by North Koreans who had escaped their homeland. Review | A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z On the one hand, the studio may not want to engage in a public feud with the North Korean leadership; on the other, the free publicity certainly doesn't hurt. North Korean protests create tricky PR situation for 'The Interview' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z With its thick features and heavy-lidded eyes, the mask could represent a European work foreman or a Soviet or North Korean overseer. Art Review: ?Through African Eyes? at the Detroit Institute of Arts 2010-04-15T22:09:00Z The headlines were filled with apocalyptic scenarios — hellish wildfires, North Korean nuclear threats, melting glaciers, not to mention a long-prophesied economic collapse. The Most Vexing Unanswered Questions of 2017 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z The North Korean dictator appeared in a state-issued photo over the weekend, in which he is shown cutting the ribbon on a new fertilizer factory outside Pyongyang. Kim Jong Un appears to be alive after all. So why did CNN and other news outlets report he was on his deathbed? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z So, he told the president his two biggest concerns were Iran and North Korea, at which point, the television started showing archived footage of North Korean missile launches. Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z On Monday, a North Korean official said the country wouldn’t stop until its missiles could reach “all the way to the East coast of the mainland U.S.” This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The deal is the latest step in the detente that began after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said at the beginning of the year that he intended to improve ties. South Korea to send K-pop singers to Pyongyang in late March 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The irony is that 2012, with its depiction of American cities such as Los Angeles sinking into the Pacific, would probably have proven quite cheery viewing for the North Korean high command. Ghosts, liberated women and Morgan Freeman: the films banned for odd reasons 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z For North Koreans, the death of Kim Il Sung was stamped as vividly in the psyche as Sept. Are tears for North Korea's 'Dear Leader' real? 2011-12-22T00:23:00Z In an interview with The Associated Press, Choe acknowledged that the main purpose of North Korean cinema is propaganda. Film festival opens in movie-crazy North Korea 2012-09-19T12:16:17Z The North Korean students shot to YouTube fame earlier this year with their spirited rendition of "Take on Me." A-ha's best cover band is in... North Korea 2012-05-17T15:33:46Z New in paperback: Seattle journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, who grew up in a North Korean labor camp and escaped from one of the ghastliest places on Earth. NW Books: 365 days of butterflies 2013-03-25T20:38:07Z After a North Korean ballistic missile test, Trump told an F.B.I. briefer that reports of the test were a hoax. In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump’s America 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Or that of all the oppressive dictators in the world and throughout history, the first movie that assassinates a living dictator happens to the North Korean one? ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z They will respond to urgent concern about conditions in North Korean prison camps, which are now visible via satellite photographs. Books of The Times: ?Escape From Camp 14,? by Blaine Harden 2012-04-11T21:17:16Z Sanger ponders whether the serial failures of North Korean ballistic missile tests in 2016 reflected a Stuxnet-like attack on that program. Cyberwarfare — the Latest Technology of Destruction 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z I did like this silly, over-the-top yet audacious movie that imagines the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Here are the best (and worst) movies opening this weekend 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Where Asians villains do appear they tend to be North Korean, as in the recent action films Olympus Has Fallen and Red Dawn. Be nice to China: Hollywood risks 'artistic surrender' in effort to please 2013-05-30T14:40:50Z "The life of a North Korean is not about living, but about how to sustain life," he said through an interpreter. Defected NKorea poet writes of hunger, desperation 2012-07-01T12:24:07Z These harrowing vignettes of North Korean hunger and suffering were later published in South Korea under a pseudonym. Binding minds 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z Trump has been a force his first year in office, Epstein says, passing tax reform, making headway in North Korean denuclearization, appointing a conservative to the Supreme Court. Trump has spurred hundreds of women to run for office. Guess what? Some are Republican. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z He then worked for the South's intelligence agency for seven years before setting up his own online newspaper about North Korean issues earlier this year. Defected NKorea poet writes of hunger, desperation 2012-07-01T12:24:07Z “The script of this film was assigned to us by the North Korean side,” reads one. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The dangers facing the North Koreans raise ethical issues that, intended or otherwise, become part of Ms. Ham’s art. An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The North Korean industry remains largely a mystery, with estimates even of its size varying hugely. Thieves opens Korean film event 2012-11-05T09:27:53Z However, it is unusual to make such images a central part of a North Korean performance and to publicize it on state TV. Mickey Mouse takes NKorean stage in show for Kim 2012-07-08T10:51:08Z From a mountain cabin and other woodsy lairs, they launch guerilla warfare on the occupying North Koreans. Review: A dizzyingly implausible new 'Red Dawn' 2012-11-20T21:05:22Z Unless the North Korean and Iraqi judges conspired otherwise... At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z How they duped the North Korean government into participating in this bogus exercise in cultural exchange boggles the imagination. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z The movie’s plot involves characters played by Seth Rogen and James Franco who try to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. 'The Interview' Will Have a Limited Release in Asia 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Federal law enforcement authorities say they are taking seriously the possibility that the North Korean government might have been behind the cyberattacks launched on Sony starting last month. Sony Pictures execs debated risk of 'The Interview' before cyberattack 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Ross: The North Korean films may be in the Ministry of Reunification in Seoul. The incredible true story of “The Lovers and the Despot”: “Until North Korea collapses and we get access to the files, we’ll never know for sure” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The North Korean leader previously called the film “an act of war” and, last week, the FBI officially accused North Korea’s government of perpetrating last month’s debilitating hack into the Sony Pictures computer system. Sony Announces Limited Release of 'The Interview' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Days later, a senior North Korean nuclear envoy traveled to the U.S. to attend a university forum while the U.S. and North Korea held more talks in Beijing to finalize the food aid. Photo show offers rare glimpse of life in N. Korea 2012-03-16T01:57:08Z There are parts of the show that even a North Korean dictator would find excessively flattering. Review: 'Motown' musical big on songs, light story 2013-04-15T02:16:04Z Even in a country with no film celebrity culture, there was a Taedong Boat Cruise with North Korean actors and actresses. 'Everyone screamed during the sex scene': backstage at North Korea's film festival 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z In 2008, when Ms. Ham found another North Korean leaflet — this one under the gate of her parents’ home — it felt like an alien object, blown in from a different planet. An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In an operation worthy of a Cold War spy thriller, Kyungah Ham used Chinese intermediaries to smuggle her textile designs and instructions to North Korean embroiderers, whom she paid to produce the works. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Oliver notes that there are some activists working to change the U.S.’s reputation among the North Korean people by smuggling in USB drives. John Oliver Gets Weird Al Yankovic to Serenade North Korea 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The story lurches violently up and forward the morning after Matt’s football loss, with the North Koreans flooding in. Movie Review: ‘Red Dawn’ Remake Trades Soviets for North Koreans 2012-11-21T00:08:48Z To those who study the often opaque progress of North Korean politics, simply unlocking that door will count as a notable development. North Korean art on display in London 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z “Everyone would agree that I am very tall, correct?” the North Korean leader stated unambiguously. Style Invitational Week 1081: It’s the stupidity, stupid — be a dumb-ask Perhaps more than anything, though, North Koreans found what readers everywhere ask of a good novel: an escape and a comfort. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z If his launching of projectiles is any indication, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is still displeased with James Franco and Seth Rogen. With 'The Interview' controversy brewing, North Korea tests missiles 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The film is about an attack on the presidential home by a bunch of loathsome North Korean terrorists who circumvent security with worrying ease. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean rapper PSY says he hopes North Koreans enjoy his new single even as tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula. PSY says he hopes NKoreans enjoy his new single 2013-04-13T11:16:05Z The director, a shy and thoughtful man who also plays the leading role, becomes animated when talking about his North Korean friends. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z There were none of his “favorite fast foods” at President Trump’s dinner with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday night in Hanoi — but rather traditional American and Korean dishes with an upscale twist. President Trump, Kim Jong Un dined on 'pear kimchi,' chocolate lava cake at 'social dinner' 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Mrs. Moon, a woman of 60 who sells rice cakes and soup in a village market near the Chinese border, represents the ordinary, North Korean. Review | A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z But do North Koreans really believe in this “religion”? What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z North Korean and Chinese spies are woven through the story, in addition to Russians and Americans, and there are a few more loops and switchbacks on the roller coaster than a purist might like. Review | Only one sexy couple can stop a Russian spy from taking over the CIA 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Is it just a coincidence that as China feels like a threat to the U.S. economy a North Korean dictator, supported by the Chinese government, seems like an easy target to make fun of? ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z He is a one-man rescue squad, occasionally pausing to torture the bejeepers out of some North Korean goons for valuable intel – like a cross between Bruce Willis in Die Hard and Kiefer Sutherland in 24. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z Among other things, it noted that the AP’s local staff includes a North Korean reporter and a photographer, both hired under an agreement with the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency. Eric Talmadge is the only Western reporter regularly in North Korea. Here’s what it’s like. 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Although these outside cultural influences can be spotted in small doses here and there, North Koreans are understandably loth to admit it. Pyongyang goes pop: Jarvis Cocker unites the divided 2011-03-29T14:52:43Z In western democracies, the news services are obsessed with projecting authority – quasi-presidential anchors – but North Korean TV has authority to spare and so seeks to lessen it. North Korea through western eyes 2010-09-30T07:00:00Z In the original script he was sent, Park said, the role was not specifically Kim but "a vague North Korean dictator." 'The Interview's' Kim Jong Un actor, Randall Park, knew it was 'insane' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Warmbier was taken into custody in 2015 because he tried to remove a propaganda poster from a hotel wall, according to the North Korean authorities. North Korea Tour Options Dwindle for Americans. But Not by Much. 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Festival organizers said they want to invite the North Korean director and the two European filmmakers to Busan. SKorean film festival to feature NKorean comedy 2012-09-10T11:58:17Z When she was 18, her beloved twin sister was kidnapped by North Koreans while swimming on a beach in South Korea. Review | A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In 2003, during a period of détente between the Koreas, the show filmed an episode in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Song Hae, Who Survived War and Poverty to Become a Beloved TV Host, Dies at 95 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z “The country is undeniably a wreck, but not every North Korean spends all day suffering.” In Transit Blog: New Trips to North Korea and Iran 2014-03-12T16:55:24Z In the movie that opens Dec. 25, Franco and Rogen play journalists who land an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, then are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. Sony limits media access to 'Interview' premiere after hacking 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The ciggies are the preserve of the North Koreans who storm the White House, rack up a fantastic body count, then chain the president to a railing in the bunker. Aaron Eckhart: 'You're giving me a heart attack' 2013-04-11T17:34:07Z The cyberattack prompted the company to cancel the theatrical release of “The Interview,” a comedy film that centers on a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony urges Twitter to suspend users who post leaked documents 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z North Korean indoctrination in anti-Americanism begins early, Oliver reports, infiltrating everything from elementary school math questions to stamps depicting missiles hurtling toward the U.S. John Oliver Gets Weird Al Yankovic to Serenade North Korea 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z A four-legged tank that resembles a robot turtle crawls above Mitchell, the American Marine that the player controls, as he fights against an invading force of North Koreans in Seoul. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Is Released 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z "If you watch a lot of North Korean films, you'll find yourself crying a lot," he said. Film festival opens in movie-crazy North Korea 2012-09-19T12:16:17Z Whatever the uncertainties about the accuracy of recent North Korean memoirs, it’s absolutely clear that some stories about North Korea are fabricated — because they’re fiction. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The world scanned Wednesday’s closely guarded funeral for the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, seeking more clues about the politics of the most closed society on earth. ArtsBeat Blog: Toward a North Korea Reading List 2011-12-28T22:38:00Z With the scenes completely staged by the North Koreans, he simply let his cameras run all day, every day. MoMA Apologizes for Dropping a Film Critical of North Korea 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z "For many it is a revelation that North Koreans open up and play Western pop music with such great joy," he said last month. A look at NKorea accordionists behind A-ha moment 2012-03-22T05:51:08Z Kim, the North Korean director, admitted he was worried about working with foreigners. Romantic comedy gets twist from NKorean acrobats 2012-09-07T12:01:04Z In recent years, performances such as the "Arirang" mass games featured performers dressed as panda bears in homage to North Korean ally China. Mickey Mouse takes NKorean stage in show for Kim 2012-07-08T10:51:08Z Chinese, North Korean and Russian leaders realized that cyber tools allowed them to wage asymmetrical attacks. ‘Dawn of the Code War’ Review: The Cyber Threat Reconsidered 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Park declares that North Korean spies have been in the vicinity of Seoul, and they all have infectious gastrointestinal issues. My streaming gem: why you should watch The President's Barber 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z North Korean diplomats lobbied unsuccessfully to get the film banned in the Czech Republic, saying, "It harms the image of our country," and adding, "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture." Six North Korea-themed movies that beat Rogen and Franco to the punch 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The film, which stars Rogen and James Franco, is about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Golden Globes 2015: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler let 'Interview' jokes fly 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z And when the appalling North Koreans bust into the White House – having indulged in a little sub-9/11 vandalism in that plane of theirs – Mike sees his chance. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z Jangmi, a pregnant North Korean teenager, hopes for a less dire future after selling herself to a Chinese man and becoming his wife, but the plan goes horribly wrong. New Books by Imbolo Mbue, Krys Lee, Gonzalo Torné and Lisa McInerney 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Hiding out in the bleak title city near the North Korean border, he becomes involved in radical protests against forced gentrification and has complicated relationships with two sisters, one of whom disappears. Tribeca Film Festival: 12 Days, 132 Films, 38 Countries 2010-04-16T00:04:00Z Nevertheless, the university teaches the progeny of the North Korean elite. Crisis-plagued Pyongyang university seeks revival after Trump-Kim... 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Chinese and North Korean military losses are estimated at 1.5 million, and 37,000 US troops were killed – around one in 10 of the Americans sent to Korea. Korean war: a British soldier's memories of a forgotten conflict 2013-07-24T13:56:37Z Has Fallen imagined North Koreans as the occupiers, while White House Down presents the more interesting fetid-elementsfrom-within situation. White House Down: D.C. Meets Die Hard 2013-06-26T20:20:17Z The line is likely in reference to mounting tensions, and a recent exchange of insults, between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. ‘This Racist 94-Year-Old Grandpa.’ The 4 Biggest Disses in Eminem’s Trump Rap 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Kwon Hyok Bong, a musical adviser who is leading the North Korean delegation, said he believed the collaboration would boost ties between France and North Korea. Musical harmony: NKorean, French orchestras play 2012-03-15T01:42:09Z “The Interview” stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as a producer and talk-show host who land an interview with the North Korean dictator and are then asked by the CIA to assassinate him. North Korea’s take on new US movie: “Act of war” 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z I started playing the first match against the North Korean guy. Wally Green’s unlikely path from gang member to ping-pong star 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z There are many outlets like this along the border; they house some of the thousands of North Korean artists who cater to burgeoning demand for their work. White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Days later, a senior North Korean nuclear envoy traveled to the U.S. to attend a university forum. Musical harmony: NKorean, French orchestras play 2012-03-15T01:42:09Z He also grappled with Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs. Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei writing memoir 2010-03-16T17:50:00Z Shin Dong-hyuk, the subject of “Camp 14,” who was born in a North Korean prison camp and escaped when he was 23, tells his story of forced labor, near starvation and torture. Critic’s Notebook: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013-06-12T22:54:26Z This time around, the Pulitzer Prize-winning associate editor of The Washington Post landed several exclusive interviews with the president and managed to obtain personal letters between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The books to read in September 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Park, a North Korean defector, said he's working with the U.S.-based nonprofit Human Rights Foundation for the stunt, which is intended to undermine the cult of personality built around dictator Kim Jong Un. 'The Interview' headed to North Korea by balloon, activist says 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z British servicemen plant explosives along a North Korean supply line. Korean war: a British soldier's memories of a forgotten conflict 2013-07-24T13:56:37Z The Act Of Killing, for example, bizarrely encourages Indonesian killers to re-enact their lives as movies, while Camp 14 evokes life in a North Korean prison camp through animation and testimony. This week's new film events 2013-03-09T06:00:09Z That word captured the world's attention in September, when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un referred to President Trump as a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard.” Feminism is word of the year, Merriam-Webster announces 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Trump was on his way to Singapore to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the Broadway awards show was taking place. Trump calls De Niro 'very low IQ individual' for Tony Awards outburst 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z A North Korean woman, a defector now living in Seoul, and a man whose wife and children have moved to the United States examine the possibilities for connection in their newly solitary lives. It May Be Home, but It’s No Sanctuary 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z "My idea is to challenge our perceptions of North Koreans, which is extremely negative and stigmatized," he said. A look at NKorea accordionists behind A-ha moment 2012-03-22T05:51:08Z "I would encourage the North Korean leadership to focus on important aspects, rather than this movie," new U.S. special representative for North Korea Sung Kim said in Beijing. Sony wrestles with how to market 'Interview' amid geopolitics, scandal 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z The Sony hack — which was said to be the work of the North Korean government, but now, it is suggested, may have been cooked up by disgruntled employees — provided a wealth of hard-won lessons. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z We’re shown DVDs and thumb drives containing movies and television shows being smuggled across the border, and North Koreans huddled in their bedrooms watching them. Television Review: PBS ‘Frontline’ Looks Inside a Notoriously Closed Country 2014-01-13T22:37:40Z Alas, these North Koreans don't seem capable of hacking a Commodore 64. Variety's take on 'The Interview' 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z His first approaches to North Korean officials were rebuffed, he said. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The actor, who's next up in the North Korean powderkeg “The Interview,” did bring his bro-ish charms to the drama of “50/50.” Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak: When comedians go biopic 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The North Korean regime was directly spoofed as well. Golden Globes: Spoofing North Korea and finding humor in Sony cyber attack 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Hiring North Korean nationals, he says, is “the ticket for admission” into the country and is standard practice for every international organization operating there. Eric Talmadge is the only Western reporter regularly in North Korea. Here’s what it’s like. 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z A long-delayed remake of "Red Dawn" will pit plucky American youth against North Koreans instead of Russians and Cubans. Why we should give remakes a chance 2011-08-31T00:31:00Z Thinking adults will find a North Korean invasion the stuff of wing-nut fantasies, which — with kids who just want to see guys shoot stuff up — is probably what the distributor is banking on. Movie Review: ‘Red Dawn’ Remake Trades Soviets for North Koreans 2012-11-21T00:08:48Z It’s true that most North Koreans are too poor and too hungry to think much about clothing in what may be the most authoritarian, least accessible state on earth. Decoding Dress in North Korea 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z There is little about the works to mark them as distinctly North Korean. South Korea's 'Hidden Treasures' shows another side of North Korea art 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Artistically, though, the most striking include 2013 treatments of Chinese censorship and North Korean militarism, silhouetted to simulate paper cutouts. In the galleries: At annual benefit show, the world goes round 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes we get to see a classic North Korean film at the Korean Film Archive in Seoul. Thieves opens Korean film event 2012-11-05T09:27:53Z Park's film is part of a second evolution in the cinema's treatment of North Koreans. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z “There is no evidence in the North Korean experience of the mass violence against whole classes of people or the wholesale ‘purge’ that so clearly characterized Stalinism,” he writes. Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z The novelist offered to screen the Seth Rogen film, a comedy about two journalists recruited to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at the movie theater Martin owns in Santa Fe, N.M. George R.R. Martin offers to show 'The Interview' at his theater 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The title of Mr. Lewis’s work of ticktock speculative fiction is harrowingly plain: “The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z But it's still culturally sensitive enough to avoid identifying any real-life faction as the villains: Yune's terrorist isn't affiliated to the North Korean government, but to a splinter group. US presidents on film: after the fall 2013-04-10T08:44:51Z Peace and an unofficial spokesman for the North Korean regime, thinks the leader would apparently still see the film. With 'The Interview' controversy brewing, North Korea tests missiles 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z There are a scattering of restaurants around the world that are owned by North Korean expats or dissidents and serve regional dishes. Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z The new documentary “Under the Sun” follows an 8-year-old North Korean girl named Zin-mi as she prepares to join the Korean Children’s Union, run by the Workers’ Party. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Like Mitchell’s postwar southerners, North Koreans know about living through terrible times. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z North Korean defectors feature too, as individuals who must fight on many fronts to achieve both financial stability and social inclusion. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z A harrowing description of 10 years in a prison camp, it is a North Korean equivalent to the works of Solzhenitsyn or Varlam Shalamov. North Korean 'court poet' to publish memoir 2013-05-01T11:21:21Z Head of news programmes Ceri Thomas said the North Korean government was the only party the corporation had deceived. Academics criticise BBC N Korea film 2013-04-15T16:44:08Z PSY said he hoped North Koreans would enjoy his new music. PSY says he hopes NKoreans enjoy his new single 2013-04-13T12:22:09Z “There’s also nothing particularly unusual about North Korean leaders laying low for extended periods,” read Talmadge’s dispatch from the Seoul bureau. Eric Talmadge is the only Western reporter regularly in North Korea. Here’s what it’s like. 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The novel is clever entertainment about a disaster that won’t happen; we face many dangers but having our memories stolen by the North Koreans is not among them. ‘NK3’: A dystopian thriller from Michael Tolkin, author of ‘The Player’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Kim's death was announced by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. North Korea's Kim Jong Il has died 2011-12-19T04:19:00Z Thursday's programme, on North Koreans who pay brokers to help them flee into the South, was one of those. Radio review: Crossing Continents 2011-07-28T15:15:01Z It's just daily life for the hundreds of thousands of citizens who live and die in secret gulags that the North Korean government still tries to deny exist. 'Escape from Camp 14': Survival and escape from a North Korean hell 2012-04-12T20:15:05Z And not unlike the gas crisis or North Korean situation of previous episodes, they determined this was an issue they’d have to solve themselves. The Always Sunny Depravity Rankings: “Gun Fever Too: Still Hot” 2013-09-12T16:25:41Z Then Skylark walks into a North Korean grocery store constructed to fool Western tourists. The Interview Review: Much Less Compelling Than the Events It Inspired 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The U.S. announcement paves the way for the possible resumption of six-party disarmament negotiations with Pyongyang and follows talks between U.S. and North Korean diplomats in Beijing last week. U.S. says North Korea agrees to nuclear moratorium 2012-02-29T15:41:02Z But at the end, sure enough, there’s Gerard Butler, playing a heroic Secret Service agent, and Rick Yune, a dastardly North Korean terrorist mastermind, going all mixed martial arts on each other. ‘Olympus Has Fallen’: a president-in-peril thriller with lots of punch(es) 2013-03-21T15:01:16Z Flanked by two flower girls, Baron Cohen jokingly claimed to be carrying the ashes of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, whose face was shown on the container. Sacha Baron Cohen spills ... something ... on Seacrest 2012-02-27T02:40:33Z Woodward makes much ado about obtaining 25 previously unreported letters between Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, relating the contents of a number of them in minute detail. In Bob Woodward’s ‘Rage,’ a Reporter and a President From Different Universes 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z After hearing Kim is a fan of Skylark, Aaron secures an interview with the North Korean leader in his home nation, seeking to resolve whether he has functioning bowels. Sony spoof 'The Interview' makes North Korea butt of the joke 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z If seemingly far-fetched, the attack by the North Korean paramilitary team is nonetheless ingenious and pulled off with somewhat disturbing ease, given that the White House is described as the best-fortified location on Earth. Review: 'Olympus' is tense yet generic 2013-03-20T13:11:11Z Roussev hoped for more substantive conversation at the dinner following the concert, but said the North Koreans are "well supervised and quite reserved even if the barriers are falling." Musical harmony: NKorean, French orchestras play 2012-03-15T01:42:09Z They accused RM of ignoring the role played by China in the war, which Chinese Communist Party propaganda blames on the United States, instead of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s attack on South Korea. Korean boy band BTS faces uproar in China over war comments 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z During this expedition, you discover that North Korean lore asserts that the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung, led the fight for independence at the foot of Mt. Time Traveling at the Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z A spokesman for the South Korean Embassy said that the ambassador’s schedule had prevented him from attending; the North Korean Embassy didn’t respond. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z At the time, 31 North Korean commandos crawled through the heavily guarded border 50 kilometers to the north and came within striking distance of the office of President Park Chung-hee. Special Report: Asia Travel: A Great View of Seoul, if You Follow the Rules 2012-05-02T20:06:05Z Paek, briefing foreign journalists in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, declined to comment on the launch date. Defiant North Korea begins injecting fuel into rocket 2012-04-11T11:40:07Z A documentary screened last month at AFI Docs, “Under the Sun,” observes a North Korean girl’s training in the art of propaganda. In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z One of the new liberties Song clearly prizes is the ability to depict nudity, whether painting a pudgy tyrant in the raw or a shapely woman wrapped only in a filmy North Korean flag. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores how castoff materials can be a venue to enlightenment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z “We seek to prevent the future detentions of U.S. citizens by the North Korean regime to avoid another tragedy like that which Otto Warmbier and his family endured.” U.S. to Bar Travel to North Korea Amid Rising Tensions 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z It is a trailer to boost the vision for a triumphant summit, a trailer to chivvy the starstruck North Koreans into submission, not to mention the South Koreans and the Chinese. 'The bromance of the century': President Trump's bizarre trailer for his summit with Kim | Peter Bradshaw 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Secretly, Greatly - a comedy about North Korean spies stationed in the South that enjoyed the biggest opening weekend for a domestic release last June - is another crowd-pleaser to feature in the programme. Korean festival brings hits to London 2013-11-06T16:36:22Z I trust @BernieSanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador! Donald Trump’s raging xenophobia: He’d never demand a white Harvard student tell him he’s “from” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Brands begins his tale in June 1950 when communist North Korean troops invaded the pro-Western south, sending U.S. and South Korean troops into panicked retreat. MacArthur and Truman face off in H.W. Brands' new history 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z North Korean state TV this week showed performers dressed as Minnie Mouse, Tigger and other characters dancing against a backdrop of footage from Disney movies, an unusual departure for the isolated nation. US chides NKorea over unauthorized Disney display 2012-07-10T19:07:09Z In a report in February, they said that a part of Mansudae called Mansudae Overseas Projects was a front for the North Korean state to cash in on military deals. White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z According to Bonner it made the film an "absolute wow" for the North Korean audience. Comrade Kim Goes Flying: it's North Korea as you've never seen it before 2013-06-26T15:35:20Z She went to South Korea and met the president; another photo in that series saw her slipping off to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. Perspective | Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z What was the experience like, of playing in front of this crowd of North Koreans? Wally Green’s unlikely path from gang member to ping-pong star 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z The film, which centers around an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is still scheduled for a Christmas Day release. Seth Rogen and James Franco Nix Publicity Tour for 'The Interview' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam Pyongyang in Amsterdam bills itself as the “first North Korean restaurant in the Western world.” Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z That said, they didn't want to turn the North Korean leader into a cartoonish bad guy. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke Jolie was in Seoul on Wednesday to promote her latest action thriller, "Salt," which opens with a scene that takes place in a North Korean prison. Jolie: 'I'm very concerned' about people of NKorea 2010-07-28T13:29:00Z Dust bunnies vs. a North Korean beach vacation: One’s bound to be found under your bed, with the other, you’re found bound and underfed. Style Invitational Week 1288: Your results may vary—write a funny disclaimer/warning 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean rapper PSY says he hopes North Koreans will enjoy his new single even as tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula. PSY says he hopes NKoreans enjoy his new single 2013-04-13T12:22:09Z Another North Korean missile, now deemed capable of hitting the United States? We can’t take any more of 2017, so we’ve turned to the Hallmark Channel in desperation 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In May, President Park Geun-hye of South Korea watched the film in a commercial theater in Seoul, along with an audience of children and North Korean defectors. MoMA Apologizes for Dropping a Film Critical of North Korea 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z They were in a really spread out formation and Neil came over the ridge of this mountain and down below him were hundreds, maybe a few thousand North Korean soldiers who were doing morning calisthenics. Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z If you've seen a North Korean propaganda film, this is as far removed from that as is possible. Comrade Kim Goes Flying: it's North Korea as you've never seen it before 2013-06-26T15:35:20Z The ever-reliable North Korean Economy Watch recently reported that skinny jeans are all the rage in Pyongyang these days. Pyongyang goes pop: Inside North Korea's first indie disco 2011-02-21T16:57:31Z Before he met with Kim Jong Un, officials warned the president not to agree to anything the North Korean leader said — not just in words, but by gesture or even expression. Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Obama characterized the studio's move to scrap the comedy -- whose plot line revolves around a fictional attempt to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- as a "mistake." Meet James Flacco, Obama's version of James Franco 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The resulting hype built the movie up in everyone’s mind as a classic of satire, standing up heroically to both the North Koreans and the cringing producers. Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z His Inspector O novels are set in North Korea and have received raves for their realistic portrayal of North Korean life. Readers' favorite international mysteries, Part II ? all around the globe 2010-12-29T22:49:04Z "Since the North Korean hacking scandal, we are experiencing reverse McCarthyism, because now Commies are calling the shots," he says. 'Interview' fallout no laughing matter in comedy world 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z These images also show the parts of national society that the North Koreans who contracted with Mr. Mansky wanted to be seen. Review: In ‘Under the Sun,’ Two Views of North Korea 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Neither Mansudae nor the North Korean Embassy in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, responded to requests for comment relayed by email, telephone messages and Cambodian museum officials. Cambodia’s New Angkor Museum, Created by a North Korean Art Factory 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z I'm going to do the Sundance playwrights' lab to workshop Hansol Jung's "Wild Goose Dreams," where I play a North Korean defector. Sandra Oh weighs in on acting choices, her new play 'Office Hour' and 'Grey's Anatomy' rumors 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z If North Koreans bothered to actually watch “The Interview,” even they might ask: A cyber attack on a movie studio over this? Absurd, this fuss over Three Stooges-like 'The Interview' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The North Korean government insists that these items are intended for “medical research.” Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The minder doesn’t mind Talmadge so much as keep an eye on his would-be contacts; talking to other foreigners is fine, but any interaction with a North Korean raises red flags. Eric Talmadge is the only Western reporter regularly in North Korea. Here’s what it’s like. 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The movie was shot in North Korea and stars North Korean acrobats. SKorean film festival to feature NKorean comedy 2012-09-10T11:46:05Z The movie—slated for release later this year—stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, who attempt to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after landing an interview with despot. Kim Jong Un Swears 'Merciless' Retaliation if New Seth Rogen Film Released 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Urlag is not just a Korean restaurant, but a North Korean one. Next Stop: In Mongolia, the Skyline by the Steppes 2013-08-02T16:45:36Z Mr. Cumings, in “The Korean War,” details the north’s own atrocities, and acknowledges that current “North Korean political practice is reprehensible.” Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z In one scene, some of the band’s technicians complain about the lack of a sound check, as a half-dozen North Korean censors mill about the empty hall. Review: ‘Liberation Day,’ Rocking in Pyongyang With Laibach 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Myers argues that North Koreans have focused on what he calls “race-based paranoid nationalism,” including bizarre ideas about how Koreans are “the cleanest race” — hence the title — bullied and persecuted by outsiders. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Backpacks, pencil cases and pajamas imported from China often feature Disney characters, and stories such as "Dumbo" have been translated into Korean for North Korean schoolchildren. Mickey Mouse takes NKorean stage in show for Kim 2012-07-08T10:51:08Z For his delectation, foreign films were pirated and dubbed at North Korean embassies around the world. Loan-star state 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Kim, who was born in Seoul but moved to the U.S. at age 10, shot to fame in her native land by playing an undercover North Korean spy in the hit 1999 thriller "Shiri." 'Lost' actress Kim makes Korean homecoming 2010-10-08T04:34:00Z Yet, there too, he is hounded by North Korean and Chinese officials. Binding minds 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z Cho appeared in a Golden Globes skit as a North Korean army general and contributor for “Movies Wow!” magazine—a made-up publication featuring the exploits of the all-too-real North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Eddie Huang: 'I'm Not Mad at Margaret Cho' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He plays an undercover reporter sent to assassinate the North Korean dictator, as does his co-star Franco, who reportedly netted $6.5 million for the movie. Seth Rogen's and James Franco's Earnings Leaked 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z There are expressions in his book that only a North Korean would be able to write, she said. A Dissident Book Smuggled From North Korea Finds a Global Audience 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z ‘If you do, he’ll claim North Korean children are beggars. Be on your guard if he asks you anything, even the most innocent questions.’ What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Capitol building being destroyed by a missile, what more logical response could Hollywood offer than a macho thriller about a Secret Service agent who takes on North Korean terrorists who attack the White House? Review: 'Olympus' is tense yet generic 2013-03-20T13:11:11Z The book ends on an uncertain note, with Mr. Shin’s delivering a slick, carefully prepared speech about his own ordeal and the urgent need to liberate other North Korean prisoners. Books of The Times: ?Escape From Camp 14,? by Blaine Harden 2012-04-11T21:17:16Z In Singapore, on Tuesday, reporters covering the summit between President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, were surprised with a screening of what appeared to be a movie trailer. The Sensational Idiocy of Donald Trump’s Propaganda Video for Kim Jong Un 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Instead, he arranged to bring the North Korean orchestra to France, where he also serves as music director for the Radio France Philharmonic. South Korean maestro in North Korea for rehearsals 2012-02-28T12:46:04Z In its candid examination of domestic conflict and female ambition, the book unsettles expectations of North Korean life. A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z A spokesman for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Friday that the Hollywood comedy with Seth Rogen and James Franco that shows the autocrat’s fake assassination is indicative of American society’s “desperation.” North Korea: Rogen, Franco film shows ‘desperation’ of American society 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Over 1 million North Koreans are thought to have died in the Korean War, and hundreds of thousands more in the mid-1990s famine. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as sharks, in a yearly carnival famed for its political satire. Portuguese carnival revelers poke fun at Putin, Trump and Kim 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z While North Korean defensiveness was to be expected, Sigg said, he hadn’t counted on objections from democratic, liberal South Korea. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z They were joined Thursday by North Korean and Norwegian musicians for a concert in Pyongyang to mark Norway's national day. A-ha's best cover band is in... North Korea 2012-05-17T15:33:46Z Showing South Korean art is illegal in the North, and for many years, North Korean art was banned in the South, too. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z In June, North Korean authorities labeled the film a “wanton act of terror” and threatened a “merciless” retaliation against the U.S. if the movie was released. Sony to amend Seth Rogen's 'The Interview' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Organizers said the five North Korean accordion players provided the soundtrack as 250 Norwegian border guards formed a human canvas by holding up colored cards in shifting patterns - a tradition in the reclusive communist country. Norwegians seek A-ha! moment in North Korean music 2012-02-11T14:23:16Z Wednesday's performance featured up to 100,000 North Koreans and debuted routines set to odes to new leader Kim Jong Un. NKoreans perform mass 'Arirang' with new Kim odes 2012-08-01T18:16:14Z Following the hacking attack on Sony, the studio canceled the release of a comedy called "The Interview", about the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea Blames the U.S. for Internet Outages 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z There are many outlets like this along the border; they house some of the thousands of North Korean artists who cater to burgeoning demand for their work. White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z During a rehearsal break before the concert, musicians from the French orchestra mingled with their North Korean counterparts, trying to communicate with their hands. ArtsBeat: North Korean Orchestra Performs in France 2012-03-14T20:28:28Z “I still think there’s huge latent demand for North Korean art in the Chinese market, that’s only set to grow.” White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z In "Olympus," North Korean terrorists took over the White House but were foiled by Gerard Butler. Six North Korea-themed movies that beat Rogen and Franco to the punch 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Despite the array of imagery portraying North Korean workers as muscular, heroic figures, Bonner said it us unlikely that the exhibition’s propaganda component would win the regime any new supporters. Design and dictatorship: exhibition celebrates North Korean graphics 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Most of the 90 North Koreans musicians - many under age 30 - were performing with a Western ensemble for the first time. Musical harmony: NKorean, French orchestras play 2012-03-15T01:42:09Z But after much internal debate, it was decided that the cult of personality around the North Korean leader made him an irresistible satirical target. Hack attack over Sony's 'Interview' shows risks of naming bad guys 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Specifically, he asked for North Koreans to ease up on the Trump jokes, though only because he and other Americans should be able to do so. Stephen Colbert to North Korea: Stop Making Trump Jokes 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s “Friend,” though, that made Paek a star — a dramatic series based on the novel aired on North Korean television — and carried his work abroad. A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z PYONGYANG, North Korea — A renowned conductor from South Korea is in Pyongyang to rehearse with North Korean musicians before their upcoming performance in France. South Korean maestro in North Korea for rehearsals 2012-02-28T12:46:04Z One of the highlights of the festival is "Comrade Kim Goes Flying," a North Korean romantic comedy about a female coal miner pursuing a lifelong dream of becoming a trapeze artist. In Transit Blog: Globespotter – South Korea: Gangnam Style and 304 Films at Busan Festival 2012-10-11T15:19:45Z Those comical bunnies were once imported to feed starving North Koreans, while the lobster is now a symbol of civilised cruelty. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z If North Koreans have yet to find fortune, they haven’t given up. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z A different kind of pain is on view high above eye level in the same space, where a vast North Korean canvas hangs. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Dutoit conducted Yun's work and often heard his friend speak of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and a music institute there that was named after him. Charles Dutoit pushes for inter-Korean orchestra 2011-07-22T05:05:10Z They wanted a man who refused to denounce white supremacists, and who approved of how Kim Jong Un treats North Koreans, to prevail. My grandfather survived the Holocaust. Here’s what his story tells me about today 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z A Roach Motel is like a North Korean beach vacation: Neither one has ever gotten a bad review from a guest. Style Invitational Week 1288: Your results may vary—write a funny disclaimer/warning 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The North Korean orchestra, whose name means "milky way," is led by Kwon Hyok Bong, adviser to the Korean Traditional Music Institute. Premier North Korean orchestra is Paris-bound 2012-03-09T13:16:11Z Political debates about Syria and the rising North Korean threat have increased interest in the Marines and military service in recent years. In the Marines, a Connection Between Art and Combat 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Trump also will not travel with her husband to Singapore next week, where the president is slated to hold a historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. ‘She wouldn’t miss this for anything’: Melania Trump holds first White House event after 24-day absence 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z I hope there was something in the movie about why assassinating a bad national leader would be a good idea - did they conjure up a North Korean national liberation movement waiting for our assistance? ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, given the reportedly fragile state of Kim's health, and the recent anointment of Kim Jong-un as the il's heir apparent, the theme of the imperishability of North Korean socialism is very timely. Dictator-lit: Kim Jong-il's political philosophy 2010-12-07T10:57:00Z Another missionary, South Korean Kim Jeong-wook, was sentenced to life with hard labor in June after a North Korean court found him guilty of espionage and setting up an underground church. In North Korea, a church renovated, missionaries jailed 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Dench’s M demands to know why Bond didn’t use his suicide pill, when he was captured by the North Koreans. Every Judi Dench film – ranked! 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z He also gave the nickname “Rocket Man” to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. At Elton John’s White House concert, tears and a trip down memory lane 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z This isn't North Korean nuclear proliferation or anything. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Jennifer Grey finds her groove 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z They argue that the connections between the Sony hack and the North Korean government amount to circumstantial evidence. Sony insider -- not North Korea -- likely involved in hack, experts say 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z One story — about a mother who had been with a group of South Koreans trying to escape from a North Korean patrol, and who smothered her baby to avoid jeopardizing their safety — stuck with him. Burt Metcalfe, Who Left His Mark on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Is Dead at 87 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z China Cuts Ties With Key North Korean Bank The decision appeared to be China’s strongest move yet to pressure North Korea over its nuclear missile program. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2013-05-07T17:41:43Z But North Korean officials have denied that they are behind the hack that has made troves of sensitive material public. Seth Rogen Thanks Sony Chief for Making The Interview 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z North Korean news reports said Wednesday that 5 million people, about a fifth of the population, had participated in the rituals. Are tears for North Korea's 'Dear Leader' real? 2011-12-22T00:23:00Z The run-in occurred after Trump dismissed a question from another reporter about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s health, saying it was based on an “incorrect” report from CNN earlier in the week. The White House tried to move a reporter to the back of the press room, but she refused. Then Trump walked out. 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Using a patio at a Florida golf club as a makeshift situation room during a North Korean missile test — as a guest posts pics to Facebook? Trump is stranger than fiction: John Altman on writing thrillers today 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z People who regularly travel to the North Korean capital describe its churches as showpieces for foreign residents and tourists. In North Korea, a church renovated, missionaries jailed 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z “I still think there’s huge latent demand for North Korean art in the Chinese market, that’s only set to grow.” White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Some saw this as a publicity stunt, but Maazel insisted that by showing the North Koreans an example of American freedom as found in its arts, he was fighting repression. An Appreciation: Lorin Maazel conducted himself inimitably 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Dec. 7: President Trump mocks Kim Jong Un after the latest North Korean missile overshoots the continental U.S. and lands harmlessly in the Atlantic Ocean. Style Invitational Week 1264: A cry for Yelp 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z While that highly publicized mess was being untangled, the makers went in and rewrote and digitally reworked footage to convert the invaders to North Koreans. 'Red Dawn': Remake is off target 2012-11-20T00:33:04Z “You’ve got to lose some weight too,” says the banner for the gym, which shows a photograph of the portly North Korean leader next to a bikini-clad woman. Latte art and a gym ad: Kim Jong Un's softer image in South Korea 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Chinese internet users and state media took RM’s comments as a slap at China, whose soldiers fought alongside North Korean forces during their failed attempt to annex South Korea in the 1950-53 war. Korean boy band BTS faces uproar in China over war comments 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Posing as a false communist, spying and snitching to prove his fervour, he became the youngest pilot in the North Korean air force. Tyrant and truant 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But weeks before the opening, lawmakers there accused the foundation of promoting North Korean propaganda in Switzerland. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z It uses an old-fashioned French narrow gauge, and is so old that when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Hanoi in February for a summit with U.S. Off the rails: Hanoi closes trackside cafes thronged by selfie-seeking tourists 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Q. How does the North Korean dictator refer to the American president and first lady? Style Invitational Week 1341: Portmanteautapping E to R 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Some of the most striking of Mr. Connors’s photographs are portraits of North Koreans: three schoolgirls as frozen as waxworks, one young man affectionately touching another at a public swimming pool. What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The biennial film festival closed Thursday after an eight-day run that offered North Koreans and foreigners the chance to see movies from North Korea as well as France, Britain, Iran, India and Russia. German film wins top prize at Pyongyang film fest 2012-09-28T06:46:04Z A North Korean beach vacation: Better not grab that poster! Style Invitational Week 1288: Your results may vary—write a funny disclaimer/warning 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z That follows on from the current box-office hit Olympus Has Fallen, where – in a spookily current plot twist – North Korean terrorists attack the White House and pretty much destroy it. 9/11 taboo is over as Hollywood fires on the White House 2013-04-06T11:22:28Z In Hansol Jung’s play, a North Korean defector and a South Korean father separated from his family, try to connect, first online and then, with emotions rather than emojis, in real life. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Paramount canceled planned screenings of the 2004 parody “Team America: World Police” — which included a spoof on former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Sony, ‘The Interview’ and the unspoken truth that all movies are political 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z For that show, the holiday theme will include a North Korean spy being hit by a truck carrying Christmas trees. Christmas Shows Are TV’s December Comfort Food 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The North Koreans know where Cassie's mom lives. "The Flight Attendant" Season 2, Episode 6 recap: I will not be you 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z I went there for a reason, I went there with something in mind — I wanted to change the way North Korean people think about Westerners. Wally Green’s unlikely path from gang member to ping-pong star 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z So at age 13, Park and her mother crossed illegally into China — and immediately into the hands of human traffickers who were as scary as the North Korean secret police. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The Pyongyang International Film Festival is held every two years and is a rare opportunity for North Korean audiences to watch carefully selected Western titles. UK sent Sherlock to North Korea 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Even the North Korean leadership talks about making their nation a “strong and prosperous great country.” ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z But the city was sacked several times, most recently by North Koreans during the Korean War. Special Report: Asia Travel: A Great View of Seoul, if You Follow the Rules 2012-05-02T20:06:05Z North Korean movies are produced for internal consumption. Film: Filmmakers on North Korea: Restricted, but Not Deterred 2010-03-27T01:07:00Z It is safe to assume that not one of these disparate views of North Korea will find a North Korean audience. Film: Filmmakers on North Korea: Restricted, but Not Deterred 2010-03-27T01:07:00Z In the age of al-Qaida, it's hard to see how a movie about a North Korean invasion of the U.S., with Russian help, ever got a green light by the geniuses in Hollywood. 'Red Dawn': Remake is off target 2012-11-20T00:33:04Z Before the ban, Americans were required to travel in a group with North Korean guides and very detailed itineraries with no chance of exploring independently. Will American Travelers Be Able to Return to North Korea? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The South Korean Foreign Ministry asked Sigg to prove that none of the North Korean artworks had been purchased in breach of international sanctions against the North, he said. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Sony’s official message is that there are no plans to release the film, which stars Rogen and Franco as a journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim, the North Korean leader. Sony canceled the release of ‘The Interview.’ Here's how it could come out. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z This slim, beautiful story follows Yohan, a North Korean refugee who flees his country at the end of the Korean War, settling in a coastal town in Brazil. Perspective | Now that Hollywood is interested in Asian stories, here are other books that should be movies 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The North Korean regime has condemned The Interview and called it an “act of war,” leading to speculation that the country might be behind the recent cyberattack on Sony Pictures. Seth Rogen Thanks Sony Chief for Making The Interview 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z "The Interview," starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, follows two hapless journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. U.S. theater chains delay Sony's 'The Interview' after threats 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Inspector O is a North Korean police officer who investigates murders, a bank robbery and various other offenses, periodically dealing with foreigners and turning down chances to defect. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z McMaster knew, he says, that as soon as Kim Jong-un proposed a summit, the president “would find a historic first meeting between a North Korean leader and a U.S. president irresistible.” An Ex-Trump Insider Looks to Our Future With Russia and China 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Trump also receives a visit from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the U.S. In Cantonese opera, Trump finds his twin brother in China 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as sharks, in a yearly carnival famed for its political satire. Portuguese carnival revelers poke fun at Putin, Trump and Kim 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z I haven't seen “The Interview” yet, only the trailer, and I could be wrong, but I get the sense that most people, North Koreans and Americans, are taking this movie too seriously. ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The United States may officially announce that the North Korean government was behind the attack in the near future, the U.S. government source said. Sony pulls release of 'Interview' as U.S determines North Korea behind attack 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z SEOUL, South Korea — North Koreans got a rare treat this week: a state TV broadcast of the British soccer film "Bend it Like Beckham." Rare treat: NKorea screens 'Bend it Like Beckham' 2010-12-30T13:39:17Z When asked if it was involved, a spokesman for the North Korean government replied, "Wait and see." Before Sony hacking, 'Interview' co-directors knew of N. Korea risk 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z And then there’s the battalion of North Korean troops that shows up accessorizedwith penguin heads in one of Nanhee’s guilty fantasies. Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Visitors are told to respect local laws that prohibit the distribution of foreign literature, or doing anything that might defame the North Korean leadership. Isolated North Korea a visitor draw, but sometimes literally a tourist trap 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Only 4.2 percent said they had seen a Bible when they lived there, said the survey of over eight thousand defectors by the South Korea-based Database Centre for North Korean Human Rights. In North Korea, a church renovated, missionaries jailed 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z “If you go to somebody’s house it is a polite way to greet somebody by offering them a sniff,” said Lee Saera, a North Korean in China. North Korea’s “Breaking Bad” problem 2014-01-31T13:15:00Z “Relying largely on extensive interviews with defectors,” Mr. Kristof wrote, “Martin portrays North Korean life with a clarity that is stunning, and he captures the paradoxes in North Korean public opinion.” ArtsBeat Blog: Toward a North Korea Reading List 2011-12-28T22:38:00Z Recently, an international human brain mapping symposium was moved from Seoul to Singapore due to the current North Korean missile crisis. Turn the Korean DMZ into a bridge of peace? Why major artists say the idea isn't crazy 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “The Worm” plans to visit the North Korean dictator a second time, following the duo’s first controversial hang session in February. | Gisele’s Musical Debut, Kanye West’s Dubious Payday and More 2013-09-06T23:32:59Z “Come on, the two North Korean Jews in the back!” Restaurant Review: Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse on the Lower East Side 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The threat prompted the movie’s stars, Seth Rogen and James Franco, to cancel upcoming press appearances for the movie, which depicts a fictional assasination of North Korean president Kim Jong Un. Sony gives theater owners OK to not show 'The Interview' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z They generally depict totalitarian states under a Big Brother figure and a panoptical authority that controls everything from the center, a scenario that’s fascist or communist or just plain North Korean. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Blustering official protests from the regime in Pyongyang, sure – those were a predictable response to a movie centered on a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Before Sony hacking, Seth Rogen was sure North Korea threat was bogus 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The North Koreans, who Megan has been leveraging intel over, finally catch up to her in a parking garage while she's watching over her son waiting for a bus across the street. "The Flight Attendant" recap: But what about Carol? 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z He uses florid language, like “beautiful” and “perfect,” and says he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “fell in love.” Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Onwards Toward the Final Victory… does everything in its power to stir the listener Before discussing the musical merits of Onwards Toward the Final Victory, it's perhaps worth considering North Korean popular music in general. Onwards Toward the Final Victory – review 2012-07-06T15:57:37Z But the real issue here isn’t whether pre-revolutionary colonists consumed their loyal pets, or whether South Koreans, North Koreans, or the Chinese eat dog but Americans, Canadians, and Europeans eat hotdogs. Huckabee’s stunning ignorance: His “North Korean chef” joke mocks people who are powerless and starved 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z And the separation of a family, onto which so much of North Korean life is inscribed, “was more than a legal matter; it was a societal problem.” A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Though I wouldn't vouch for its inventiveness, "The Interview" certainly got North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's blood boiling, as Sony Pictures so painfully discovered. We view movies through the lens of our times; case in point, 'Selma' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The film, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, is about the fictionalized assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Before 'The Interview,' other films performed well on VOD 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Their previous contests inspired graphic artists to imagine Disney characters as cast members of "Orange Is the New Black" or to dream up the best uses for North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un's hair. A hipster Obama? Indeed, thanks to DesignCrowd's latest contest 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Dutoit, who conducted the North Korean state symphony on his visit, said he was further inspired by a teary-eyed airport farewell from orchestra members. Charles Dutoit pushes for inter-Korean orchestra 2011-07-22T05:05:10Z Another factor is the popularity of North Korean opera in China, which dates to the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution when China’s own traditional theatrical forms were banned. North Korean Opera Draws Acclaim in China 2010-07-28T11:49:00Z On Sunday's episode of "Last Week Tonight," the host opened his show diving into the oversized letter given to Trump by North Korean envoy Kim Yong-chol last week. Where is Melania? John Oliver has a guess 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The comedy, which is due to be released in the United States and Canada on Dec. 25, is about a CIA plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony Pictures struggles to recover eight days after cyber attack 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Sigg eventually persuaded the officials, he said, and built one of the most important collections of North Korean art outside the country. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The reason "The Interview" is not very good has nothing to do with its decision, which Sony surely regrets, to name names and kill off the North Korean leader on camera. Spending Christmas Eve with 'The Interview,' and all its trappings 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z A North Korean team manager, who also declined to be named, said athletes were not concerned about what prizes awaited them in Pyongyang for bringing back gold. Love, eggs and ideas: the keys to NKorean weightlifting success 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Nothing wrong with that, but his artiste pose is as phoney as a North Korean election. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z But in this case, the girl is a North Korean coal miner, the big city is Pyongyang and her dream is to become a high-flying trapeze artist. Romantic comedy gets twist from NKorean acrobats 2012-09-07T12:01:04Z In recent months, the Protestant church has been renovated - its rusted iron roof replaced with new tiles, and its faded brown brick walls repainted yellow, according to a North Korean propaganda video. In North Korea, a church renovated, missionaries jailed 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Eckhart spends so much time sacrificing himself to Rick Yune's cherry-lipped North Korean terrorist, you wonder if he's trying to escape a second term. US presidents on film: after the fall 2013-04-10T08:44:51Z When the North Koreans learned the truth, the Americans were beaten. Is a Gesture Obscene or Not? 2010-03-12T22:30:00Z I’m going to try to engage real North Korean people. Wally Green’s unlikely path from gang member to ping-pong star 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z I’m going to enact the next phase of our national push for technological superiority by issuing a Walkman to each North Korean citizen. Style Invitational Week 1110: Write a [Someone’s] Mama joke 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The question of Sony's creative involvement in the North Korean aspects of the movie has been a key one. Sony wrestles with how to market 'Interview' amid geopolitics, scandal 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, much of everyday life is controlled by something called “the Autonet,” a creepy marriage of the internet, A.I., surveillance technology and the radio announcements that emanate from the walls inside North Korean houses. The Future Is Here, and Uncomfortably Close to Home 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z In a mark of extraordinary dedication to the concept of villainy over petty narrative details, MGM wavered between making the invaders Chinese or North Korean until the last minute. Red Dawn: Chris Hemsworth Helms Lackluster Remake 2012-11-21T15:35:01Z Judging from defectors I’ve interviewed and much of the literature on North Korea, many do — especially older people, farmers and those farther from the North Korean border. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z If you play a North Korean in North Korea, all the fans are North Koreans. Wally Green’s unlikely path from gang member to ping-pong star 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z PYONGYANG, North Korea — A premier North Korean orchestra headed to Paris on Friday for an unusual collaboration with French musicians and a South Korean conductor. Premier North Korean orchestra is Paris-bound 2012-03-09T13:16:11Z “Is this a true story?” one incredulous North Korean asked me. In North Korea, an International Film Festival Where ‘Self-Reliance’ Is the Star 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z But on Sunday, The Associated Press reported, North Korean television audiences were given a rare break from this routine when the British comedy “Bend It Like Beckham” was shown there. ArtsBeat: North Korea Gets a Special Kick Out of 'Bend It Like Beckham' 2010-12-30T16:57:37Z That includes the public upbraiding she endured for what some saw as her racist impersonation of the North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un at the Golden Globes in January. For Margaret Cho, Nothing Is Too Private for a Punch Line 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z A former North Korean kindergarten teacher from the northeastern city of Chongjin recalled that she had to lead her pupils twice a day to a 25-foot-tall statue of Kim Il Sung. Are tears for North Korea's 'Dear Leader' real? 2011-12-22T00:23:00Z It marked the beginning of a slow influx of outside culture still enjoyed by North Koreans today. Pyongyang goes pop: How North Korea discovered Michael Jackson 2011-02-01T13:03:37Z In a June 23 email, a Sony executive in Japan sent word to the studio, writing that Hirai was "very much concerned about this film" and its potential for angering the North Korean government. Sony CEO worried for months about 'The Interview,' emails show 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z "My balloons are the way to achieve peace and unification and tell North Koreans the truth - not to hate the United States and South Korea," he said. Airborne leaflets torment North Korea; jeopardize talks with South 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The film, the story of which involves a fictional plot to kill the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, will be shown, in cinemas only, from 6 February. The Interview to receive UK release 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z In a report in February, they said that a part of Mansudae called Mansudae Overseas Projects was a front for the North Korean state to cash in on military deals. White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Thursday's New York premiere of "The Interview," which follows two hapless journalists who are recruited to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was canceled following the latest threat. Theater owners say cinemas may decide to delay Sony's 'The Interview' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Sigg said he used to visit the North Korean national art museum, in the capital, Pyongyang, whose works glorify the country’s strength. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z “This week, the June 12th summit between the US and North Korea was suddenly back on after Trump met with a North Korean envoy who brought him this gigantic, comically oversized letter from Kim Jong-un.” John Oliver: 'as infuriating a president as Trump is, he'd be an even worse Moses' 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Dad was 8 when North Korean tanks under the command of Kim Il Sung rolled down Sejong-daero, a main Seoul thoroughfare, and surrounded the plaza. Seeing Korea through his parents’ eyes The ribbing continued throughout the evening, when Margaret Cho pretended to be a scowling, North Korean entertainment journalist and the newest member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes on the Globes. At a notably relevant Golden Globes, the film world is seen struggling to keep pace 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The visas didn’t arrive, and Mr. Mansky couldn’t reach his North Korean partners. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z For most of the North Koreans, it will be their first time performing overseas with a Western orchestra. Premier North Korean orchestra is Paris-bound 2012-03-09T13:16:11Z During his many years in exile, the Cambodian monarch spent several months annually in North Korea and even wrote and directed a series of films starring North Korean actors. Cambodia’s New Angkor Museum, Created by a North Korean Art Factory 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The episode is set to air Dec. 7 on Discovery, shortly before their new movie, The Interview, in which their characters try to assassinate North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, premieres on Christmas Day. Watch James Franco and Seth Rogen Hug in the Nude on 'Naked and Afraid' 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z There are North Korean fans of everything from Mark Twain’s short stories to bootleg Schwarzenegger movies. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z I'm an atheist, a good old North Korean style atheist. Book Talk: Jim Crace says last novel a generous gift 2013-02-14T11:14:29Z The film is built around interviews with more than a half-dozen North Koreans who fled their country but can’t shake its hold on their imaginations. Movie Review | 'Kimjongilia': Life Under a Tyrant, Even After Escaping 2010-03-19T04:00:00Z The festival is a rare opportunity to mingle with the North Korean people – and to see how they react to cinema. 'Everyone screamed during the sex scene': backstage at North Korea's film festival 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z North Korean founder Kim Il Sung ordered the creation of the Pyongyang Circus in 1952 in the middle of the Korean War. North Korea stages biggest magic show ever 2011-04-18T16:17:16Z But any uproar in the past has easily been eclipsed by the continuing fallout from Sony Pictures Entertainment's now-shelved comedy "The Interview," about a fictional assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Hack attack over Sony's 'Interview' shows risks of naming bad guys 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Past menus have featured Iranian, North Korean and Afghan food; on my visit, the stand was about to wrap up its Palestinian menu — a particularly controversial choice that resulted in death threats in November. The little Burgh that’s catching food critics by surprise 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “It used to be very traditional, with two North Korean hosts in traditional dress,” she said. 'Everyone screamed during the sex scene': backstage at North Korea's film festival 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z That number has now risen to more than 200, one of the most ambitious of which is Changbaishan, which opened this winter in a pine-studded nature reserve in Jilin province near the North Korean border. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z The most loyal North Koreans are part of the "core class," who are eligible for membership in the ruling Workers' Party and can be assigned homes and jobs in Pyongyang, the capital. Are tears for North Korea's 'Dear Leader' real? 2011-12-22T00:23:00Z In terms of civilian slaughter, he declares, “our ostensibly democratic ally was the worst offender, contrary to the American image of the North Koreans as fiendish terrorists.” Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z “Is that a joke?” one will ask the other, sometimes with a postscript: “A South Korean joke?” or “A North Korean joke?” Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The exception is a rapidly expanding chain of themed restaurants in Asia, owned by the North Korean government and also named Pyongyang. Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z Christianity Today carries an interview with Robert Park who says one of the best ways for Christians to help North Koreans is to redirect money to refugees and North Koreans assisting refugees. Divine dispatches: a religion roundup 2010-09-01T12:23:00Z The sailors told the North Koreans it was a Hawaiian good luck sign. Is a Gesture Obscene or Not? 2010-03-12T22:30:00Z All North Korean artists are expected to read this tract and internalize its lessons. In North Korea, an International Film Festival Where ‘Self-Reliance’ Is the Star 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Raised in an impoverished totalitarian state, many North Koreans lack the education, financial resources and personal connections to compete in the South, one of Asia's richest countries. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z The FBI cited, among other things, links between the malware used in the attack to "other malware that the FBI knows North Korean actors previously developed." Security experts doubt North Korea role in Sony hack 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Since then, the reign has shifted several times: to the South Africans, the North Koreans, and especially the Mexicans, who are power specialists. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z The U.S. blames the North Korean government for the attack, though Pyongyang authorities deny responsibility. Sony's 'The Interview' on strange ground, but is it in cult-film zone? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z “If you’re a North Korean, you want to see this resolved. But politics is complicated,” Ri said. Lovers, comrades! Forbidden love in North Korea finds a way in Vietnam 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Thousands of North Koreans have fled their homeland since the famine of the late 1990s, and many are writing memoirs recounting their daily lives and extraordinary escapes. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z "The Interview" depicts the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony scraps 'Interview' release amid pressure from theaters, studios 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Her passions are more fundamental and widespread, ranging from innovations in biotechnology to North Korean literature and the protection of birds. Once preposterous, now immediate; Margaret Atwood on 'Handmaid's Tale' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Surely there's scope for a longer series here; the immensely likable Quentin could probably make a tour of a North Korean gulag seem like fun. TV highlights 21/05/2013 2013-05-21T05:59:01Z The twist this time is that the invading army in the new Red Dawn was Chinese, but has been digitally changed in post-production to North Korean. Is the new Red Dawn a blast from the past? 2012-11-23T20:15:01Z The Interview” → “The Nature View”: Satire about two wildlife photographers who sneak across the DMZ to shoot an elusive North Korean cuckoo. Style Invitational: Think up a game crazier than this one 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z And last month, North Korean singer Hyon Song-wol led a delegation of North Korean officials to the South to prepare for the cultural performances that will be a part of the events. A K-pop primer for Olympic listening 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The romance about a North Korean and South Korean aired on the paid channel tvN in South Korea and also on Netflix. Not just K-pop: Korean TV shows gaining US popularity 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z If so, it's safe to assume the North Koreans weren't amused. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke The hackers, calling themselves Guardians of Peace, say they are punishing Sony for making a film that depicts the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some theaters drop 'The Interview' amid Sony hacker threats 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Joseph Stalin would have instantly understood the images in “Contemporary North Korean Art: The Evolution of Socialist Realism.” In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z They bend to their work, or what they call their art, like wage slaves on a North Korean assembly line. David Chase's Not Fade Away: The Sopranos Sing the '60s 2012-10-05T23:52:58Z In 2000, famine led him to try to swim to China, a journey that ended in a North Korean prison camp. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores how castoff materials can be a venue to enlightenment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Sony has pulled it's North Korean comedy The Interview from cinemas - but not before critics got the chance to file their reviews. What is The Interview really like? 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z That's partly for reasons of context, and partly because – as with every other aspect of North Korean life – a look into what you might term their music scene leaves you reeling. Onwards Toward the Final Victory – review 2012-07-06T15:57:37Z Along its length would be towers for viewing nature and, every kilometer, open-air “Jung Ja” meditation pavilions designed by different architects and artists, including several reserved for North Koreans. Turn the Korean DMZ into a bridge of peace? Why major artists say the idea isn't crazy 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z In fact, “we actually talked about the reality of where we were, and Steven was very connected to ‘These are my people on the North Korean side. From ‘Walking Dead’ Casualty to South Korean Cinema Star 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The South Korean actors speak with a North Korean accent and use expressions less familiar in the South. Cross-border S Korean drama overcomes political risks 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z While most books and films about this hermetic regime try to peel away the scrim of party-line misinformation, “The Juche Idea” does more or less the opposite: it co-opts the language of North Korean agitprop. Film: Filmmakers on North Korea: Restricted, but Not Deterred 2010-03-27T01:07:00Z An installation by Onejoon Che documents colossal Socialist Realism-style sculptures made by a North Korean design corporation for cities in Africa, art projects that lay the groundwork for parasitical economic links. Review: New Museum Triennial Casts a Wary Eye on the Future 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z And the movie shows North Koreans in baseball caps and T-shirts, not just military uniforms. Romantic comedy gets twist from NKorean acrobats 2012-09-07T12:01:04Z The new North Korean fighter jet is so slow, geese can keep up with it. Style Invitational: Ink-conceivable interpretations of these ink blots! 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Mi-ran is from near the bottom of the North Korean social heap, while Jun-sang comes from a comparatively privileged family, with relatives in Japan. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Now, around 150 artworks by 70 of those artists are showing in Goyang, a city just outside of Seoul and less than 50 miles from the North Korean border. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z This week sees the UK release of Red Dawn, which features a North Korean invasion of the US. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z An elderly man dying of cancer plays the game alongside a North Korean defector. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Even Margaret Cho's specific satirical takedown of an inarguably fascist North Korean regime at this year's Golden Globes was viewed by some as racist. The first rule of satire in the U.S.: Do not offend 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Three of the five short stories she has published in recent years revolve around the North Korean prison system, a topic she became fascinated with during a stint with the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The club Julia Pierson is joining: Life after a Washington scandal And he certainly hadn’t expected he’d wind up getting mobbed for selfies outside the Democratic debates in Detroit or running around Hanoi this February with another guy dressed as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. ‘Trump’s job creation certainly helped me!’ says a Donald Trump impersonator who is making bank 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z High Commissioner for Refugees, said she got a tutorial on the plight of North Korean defectors from Seoul-based officials from the U.N. refugee agency. Jolie: 'I'm very concerned' about people of NKorea 2010-07-28T13:29:00Z Unknown to the North Koreans, he left his cameras running all day, documenting each scene being set up, rehearsed and reshot. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In the case of "Team America," an all-puppet comedy from "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was lampooned mercilessly. Hack attack over Sony's 'Interview' shows risks of naming bad guys 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z In 2012, Mr. Mansky met a North Korean delegation at a Vladivostok film festival and spent the next two years negotiating with the government for access. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Although the backwardness of most North Korean infrastructure may make it an unpromising target for others to attack, thanks to a crash hacker-training program it is now in the cyberwarfare big leagues. Cyberwarfare — the Latest Technology of Destruction 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z After “Under the Sun” won the best director award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia, the North Koreans invited Mr. Mansky back to discuss an “urgent issue.” In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In an interview with Greta Van Susteren after the summit, Trump extolled the North Korean leader, saying he has a “great personality”, is a “great negotiator”, is “funny”, “smart” and “loves his people”. John Oliver calls deal between US and North Korea 'close to meaningless' 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z North Koreans celebrated Kim’s birthday instead of Christmas, and he distributed gifts to children across the country like Santa Clause. 3 Books on North Korea and the Threat of Nuclear War 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z A group calling itself Guardians of Peace has claimed responsibility, demanding that Sony block the Dec. 25 release of "The Interview," a comedy depicting a fictional assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Fallout from Sony hack may alter how Hollywood conducts business 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z The government tries hard to ban any foreign television, internet or even music, and North Korean radios, which don’t have dials, can receive only local stations. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z U.S. officials believe that the North Korean government was behind the attack as retaliation for Sony's comedy "The Interview," which is about the fictionalized assassination of leader Kim Jong Un. Steve Mosko touches on Sony hack at Digital Entertainment World expo 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z There, he met and married Megumi Yokota, a Japanese national abducted by North Korean agents on her way home from school a year previously. Japanese woman abducted by North Korea an icon, but South Korean husband forgotten 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Yoon, in addition to hiding her North Korean background, said she tried to look and sound local. Tracing Freedom to a Pair of Jeans 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z What is North Korean literature, as read by North Koreans? A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z "For the South Korean audience then, seeing a North Korean character with conflicting emotions was refreshing," said Park Yoo-hee, the film critic. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z The video was being privately circulated among the elite, but reached the North Korean public before making it over the border to China – and therefore the world. Pyongyang goes pop: sex scandal on the socialist music scene 2011-03-10T12:52:21Z Just as important, New York musicians listened to North Koreans, and particularly to surprisingly accomplished young players, whom they coached. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The first scene is actually quite funny: A North Korean child singing a bloodthirsty song - "America die!" - with a bright smile on her pretty face. What is The Interview really like? 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Chung will be leading the North Koreans and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in an unusual cultural collaboration. Premier North Korean orchestra is Paris-bound 2012-03-09T12:01:05Z Part of the weirdness of this film lies in the fact that the tense North Korean situation in the real world gives it no realism or satirical edge, or prophetic authority of any kind. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z And it's the only time foreigners are allowed into North Korean theaters to watch movies alongside locals. Film festival opens in movie-crazy North Korea 2012-09-19T12:16:17Z The action-comedy — recently condemned by Pyongyang for its plot about an attempt to kill the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — was originally scheduled to open Oct. Seth Rogen, James Franco's 'The Interview' moves to Christmas Day 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z North Korean Checkers: Unanimously considered by far the greatest game of all time! Style Invitational Week 1163: Put it in reverse 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Most of the 90 North Koreans will be performing with a Western ensemble for the first time. NKoreans, French prepare for major Paris concert 2012-03-13T16:56:08Z Topical references roll through in waves: name-checks of those revealed in the #MeToo movement, as well as net neutrality, statues of Robert E. Lee and North Korean missiles. There's a Purple Rain of Grinchiness in the Troubies' 'How the Princh Stole Christmas!' 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z And with that they were off, the North Korean translator deciding enough questions for one day. Love, eggs and ideas: the keys to NKorean weightlifting success 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z "Recipe for weightlifting success," by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Love, eggs and ideas: the keys to NKorean weightlifting success 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The film, a raunchy comedy about the attempted assasination of North Korean president Kim Jong Un, was set to debut at Manhattan's Sunshine Cinema on Thursday evening. New York premiere of 'The Interview' canceled amid hack threats 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Peace and an unofficial spokesman for the North Korean regime, doesn't find the pitch so amusing. North Korea denounces James Franco and Seth Rogen's Kim Jong Un movie 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Yet the stories it recounts are moving and disturbing, and it surely tells us far more about real North Korean lives than a fleeting tourist visit to the Stalinist-kitsch theme park that is Pyongyang. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z |
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