In an effort to strengthen their propaganda campaign, North Korea has taken to social media by opening a Twitter and Youtube account. Both go by the name uriminzokkiri which means [...]
Tags: North Korea, Propaganda, South Korea, Twitter, YouTube
Justin Bieber has been the subject of many an internet prank these days but this one takes the cake. (If you don’t know who he is, don’t worry, most people [...]
Tags: 4chan, BBC News, Justin Bieber, My World Tour Contest, North Korea, Pranks, the internet
Let’s take a break from the sometimes ridiculous world of Kpop and enter the always ridiculous world of North Korea. North Korea has actually demanded the United States compensate them for [...]
Tags: Anniversary, Kim Jongil, Kpop, North Korea, South Korea, United States, war
After 140 days in a North Korean prison, Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrived back in the United States yesterday, flying into Burbank Airport just before 6:00am PST with former [...]
Tags: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Current Events, Euna Lee, Journalists, Laura Ling, News, North Korea, Pyongyang
In a stunning op-ed in today’s New York Times, Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake revealed the fact that he was a survivor of the 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
Tags: Fashion, Hiroshima, Issey Miyake, North Korea, nuclear weapons, Pleats Please, President Obama
In his latest New York Times blog, Nicolas D. Kristof leans toward the possibility that Laura Ling and Euna Lee might have actually been sold to North Korea by a [...]
Tags: China, Euna Lee, human trafficking, Laura Ling, New York Times, Nicolas D. Kristof, North Korea
North Korea’s official news agency is reporting that Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two American journalists who have been detained since March and stood trial last week for illegal [...]
Tags: Change, Current Events, Euna Lee, Guest Bloggers, journalism, Laura Ling, North Korea, Politics
The families of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the American journalists who have been detained in North Korea since March, appeared on NBC’s Today Show yesterday to talk about their [...]
Tags: Current Events, Euna Lee, Laura Ling, Lisa Ling, North Korea
It gave us the jitters, to put it mildly, when North Korea set off its second nuclear bomb the other day. You can only wonder how South Korea and Japan, [...]
Tags: Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Current Events, Eisenhower, Guest Bloggers, JFK, North Korea, nuclear weapons, Politics, The Why Files, United Nations, World War II
