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President Lee Jae-myung’s softer North Korea strategy, echoing past failed efforts, is unlikely to succeed. Pyongyang seeks ...
The two Koreas have engaged in psychological warfare since the 1960s, with weapons like huge billboard screens, loudspeakers installed along the border, and airdropping propaganda leaflets.
Romcom TV shows like Materialists are the best manner in which fans of the movie can continue to experience the beauty and chaos of love on their TV screens at home.
North and South Korea may share history and ethnicity, but today they couldn’t be more different. This analysis explains the ...
North Korea appears to be constructing a new building at its Yongbyon nuclear complex and continues to produce nuclear ...
The North Korean leader called for all military units to achieve "a breakthrough in war preparation," according to the outlet. Footage of the drills aired on state TV showed a MiG-29 jet launching ...
What do salmon fillets, fake eyelashes and animated children’s TV shows all have in common? All these familiar parts of Western daily lives have recently been touched by North Korean labour.
For most parts of the world, TV shopping is a completely individual matter, and it's your decision what you view. But in North Korea, even this fundamental right is very limited. This type of ...
North Korean escapee and activist Timothy Cho shared the struggles that citizens face when purchasing basic consumer goods like televisions in the country. How would you feel if the government ...
"If you buy a TV in North Korea, the government come to your house and take all antennas out and leave only one antenna," he told LADbible as he was asked about censorship in the country.
Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.
More recently, the North Korean government has been alarmed by the popularity of South Korean TV dramas, sentencing two teenagers to 12 years of hard labor for watching them. “When I look at ...