South Korea is downplaying the disappearance of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.* The minister in charge of relations with the North says Mr Kim is in all likelihood taking… Read more »
North Korea’s regime has admitted its vulnerability to soft power “for the first time,” according to a prominent defector. An editorial in an official newspaper today conceded that information flows… Read more »
Opening up North Korea’s society is “a completely bleak problem” because citizens “have been deprived of any tools that they need, education, information, sharing tools,” according to Suki Kim, author… Read more »
The prickliness of North Korea’s messaging also can be read as an evolutionary strategy, akin to a hedgehog showing its spines to protect its pink underbelly, Hannah Beech writes for… Read more »