‘Sea of Blood’: The acclaimed opera written by a North Korean dictator in 1971
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‘Sifter’: Round Eye talks to Dangerous Minds about shooting their video in North Korea
As a band of American expats (and one Italian) living in Shanghai, the pre-emptively named prog-punk band Round Eye get opportunities that most bands would…
North Korea ‘threaten’ London hairdresser over ‘disrespectful’ Kim Jong-un bad hair day poster?
Last month it was reported supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-un had (supposedly) suggested that all loyal citizens of North…
Dangerous Finds: Odds of alien life; Anonymous has North Korea’s secrets; Roxy Music cover outtakes
Anonymous to release secret North Korea military documents June 25 – The Daily Dot Roxy Music LP cover photoshoot outtakes – London Lee h/t WFMU…
‘North Korea is Best Korea’: Timelapse video of Kim Jong Il tattoo
You ask why on earth would someone have The Supreme Leader immortalized on their skin? Well, according to YouTuber SlipTool1, “Tat artist and i were…
‘The Red Chapel’: Comic documentary about a deliberately bad comedy troupe touring North Korea
The Red Chapel is a new comic documentary that exposes the paranoiac culture of Kim Jong Il’s North Korean dictatorship in the form of a…
North Korea’s Not So Funny “It’s So Funny”
If you’re left unamused by the shameless mugging on Friends, you won’t be laughing much at this either. Who knew North Korea had a long-running…
Holding Hands In The Dark: Finding Love In North Korea
Who would have thought there might be a romantic upside to living under a repressive regime? Barbara Demick, the Beijing Bureau Chief at the LA…