Vice told Charlie Rose that its "basketball diplomacy" trip included what would be an extremely exclusive interview with the Mein Kampf-loving, now almost actually diplomatic North Korean leader. But it didn't make the cut of Friday's Dennis Rodman-starring season finale. Which makes little to no sense — which, when you think about it, is kind of the Vice way.
Because North Korea is nothing if not considerate, their state media warned any foreigners on the peninsula today that they might want to go home soon—unless want to take their chances of surviving "a merciless sacred retaliatory" thermonuclear war.
Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you'd think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we'll say this: they certainly get points for presentation.
At the outset of his show last night Jon Stewart decided to poke fun at North Korea — you know, until North Korea actually started to scare him.
North Korea ratcheted up its vague but unending threats against the United States, South Korea and other Western nations with another twist as when Kim Jong-Un called a rare party meeting. Apparently in response, the U.S. Air Force sent a fresh batch of the radar-dodging F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets.
Propaganda wars aren't new. But with the thoroughness of a first-time B-movie director, Kim Jong-un has assembled the perfect image of a rogue state foil to the U.S. The JPEG War has begun.
Apparently, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is a new father, according to America's foremost expert on North Korean politics, Dennis Rodman. Before reading the rest of this post, we recommend seeking out a large grain of salt.
With North Korea continuing to agitating things with their enemies to the South, Kim Jong-un is doing his best to prepare his troops to break some waists.
One of the best parts about crazy North Korea news is the way things are portrayed in their media. This was never more evident than in that awesome video of the North Korea anchorwoman announcing the rocket launch. But here, right now, we have another masterpiece of North Korean propaganda. This 15 minute news recap of Dennis Rodman's trip to Pyongyang is kind of amazing.
Paul Krugman on Ben Bernanke vs. the man, Yochai Benkler on the Bradley Manning case, Jonathan DeHart on Dennis Rodman in North Korea, Michael O'Hanlon on intervention beyond Syria, and David Min on government-backed mortgages.
An analysis of satellite images suggests that at least one North Korean prison camp has been significantly expanded over the past decade, including since the death of former premier Kim Jong-Il.
Tuesday's test has the world calling for a strong response, but the world can't negotiate with North Korea, because the world doesn't have anything North Korea wants.
Reports are criss-crossing the usually hush-hush country nation that Kim Jong-un's wife may have given birth to a future supreme leader. Not that anything's been confirmed, because this is North Korea, after all.
Today the country has blessed us with Pyongyang Racer, the first video game ever to come out of North Korea, and just like their satellite, it's not very good.
Kate Middleton may have some competition in the dynastic pregnancy game as new pictures out of North Korea appear to show Kim Jong-un's wife sporting a very important baby bump.
The world knows so little about the inner workings of the North Korean regime that the appearance of Kim Jong-Il's former sushi chef at a press conference held here at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan — well, it was bound to get scrutinized for shreds of new information.
In what could be the most drastic change to North Korea society since the nation's founding, the government has announced new rules that would give farmers some small bit of ownership over the crops they grow.
During Kim Jong-Un's reign, he has given his people the right to fill their bellies with pizza and allowed women the right to wear pants in public unpunished. On Monday, he marked a new milestone: the first time Pyongyang has accepted help from Seoul.
Kim Jong-Un has reportedly requested a formal state visit to Beijing, but his Chinese neighbors may not thrilled by the idea of North Korea's leader crashing on their couch.
Thanks to an apparent mix-up on Iran's part, a tantalizing story started circulating on Tuesday night that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un would be taking his first state visit to Tehran this weekend, but South Korean media reported on Wednesday that it wasn't true.
There's news this morning that would make the late Kim Jong-Il smile. Experts say that North Korea is about two weeks away from being able to test out nukes, while his daughter-in-law has adopted Kim's taste for fancy things by toting a handbag worth 16 times the monthly wage of the average North Korean.
As if every inch of the London Olympics weren't already awash in corporate advertising, a British chain of opticians has found a new marketing opportunity: London Olympics gaffes.
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Koreans on both side of the DMZ are still trying to unravel the mystery of Kim Jong-Un's new bride, including why they apparently got in married in 2009, but didn't bother to tell anyone.
Two, have apparently become Un. But just who, exactly, the Supreme Leader of North Korea married is sort of a mystery.
It appears Kim Jong-un's consolidation of power this week was far more turbulent than outsiders were led to believe. How much more turbulent remains subject to dispute.
Is the ouster of North Korea's military leader a sign of more purges to come?
After firing the guy who was running North Korea's military on Monday, Korean State television is reporting that rather than interview a whole new slate of candidates to replace the departed general, Kin Jong-un found a perfectly suitable replacement: himself.
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North Korea's highest-ranking military officer has been officially relieved from all his duties due to an unnamed illness, but many observers of the new regime doubt the official story.
It seems that South Korean intelligence sources have figured out who exactly that mystery woman showing up with Kim Jong-Un at all his important events. Her name is apparently Hyon Song-wol, but North Koreans know her as the illustrious front woman of the Bonchonbo Electronic Music Band.
If North Korea had a Page Six, they'd be all over the news that Kim Jong Un has been spotted twice now with an unidentified lady friend by his side. South Korean media—and maybe a few would be Mrs. Kim Jong Un's—are desperate for an answer: Is she his wife or sister?
In today's tour of propaganda, Kim Jong Un gives a winning smile, Chinese media does damage control, and Anders Breivik sobs after watching his own propaganda film.
Nobody can quite figure out why North Korea, a country that instinctively lies to its people, admitted to the embarrassing failure of its rocket launch this morning.
U.S. diplomats this morning are trumpeting an agreement they reached with North Korea to end its enrichment of uranium and its frightening, chest-thumping long-range missile tests. Does this signal a friendlier regime under Kim Jong-Un?
If a report from a Russian newspaper is true, the North Korean dictatorship family resembles an Orange County reality show: the weekly Argumenty i Fakty has reported that young leader Kim Jong-un has cut off his older brother Kim Jong-nam's Visa Gold card as retaliation for name-calling.
It is nothing more than a rumor, but China's Twitter equivalent, Weibo, has lit up with posts that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has died in a possible coup.
They've never met, but Kim Jong Un's brother, who lives a life of exile in Macau, thinks the new leader of North Korea is too inexperienced and will wind up the victim of a military coup. And that may be a sign of hope for North Korea.
The new leader of North Korea celebrates a birthday by reviewing troops and riding a horse.
A day after naming Kim Jong-Un leader of its army, North Korea welcomed the New Year with a haunting message about how its citizens would serve as "human shields" to protect its new leader "unto death."
First there was Great Leader Kim Il-sung, then Dear Leader Kim Jong-il. Now North Korea sings the mandatory praises of its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un.
Well this is awkward. North Korean officials have sternly invited demanded South Korea send a delegation to Kim Jong Il's funeral next week, and that not doing so would be "an unbearable insult and mockery of our dignity."
While the rest of the world is still grasping at the tiny bits of information about Kim Jong-un, the state-run North Korean News has started producing legends of its new "divine" leader.
A new report out of North Korea says that the country will be ruled by a group of people, though Kim Jong-il's son will remain the figurehead at the front of the country.
North Korea's new leader was among the public mourners as the body of Kim Jong-il was shown lying in state on Korean television.
There are some basic things about Kim Jong-un, North Korea's newly named leader, that most profiles of him pretty much agree on, and then there are a whole bunch of really weird details you have to take with a grain of salt, but that are way more fun.
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