Onscene: The Strange, Weird World of North Korea
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There's pomp, propagandaâand even a fake Chanel purse or two. NEWSWEEK's Tokyo Bureau Chief discovers that touring North Korea has some unexpected moments.
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As a boy, he danced the Nutcracker in Prague. As a young man, he performed traditional Korean numbers for the future dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-il.
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Of all the exchanges in the first presidential debate, at the University of Miami Thursday night, the one I found most perplexing was over the North Korean nuclear issue.
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NO one does weird quite as well as Japanese game designers and animators. In this spirit, three new video games bring the bizarre home.
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A timeline of nuclear weapons development in North Korea:
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Many nations are hells on earth for political and religious prisoners. Among them: Iran, North Korea, Cuba and one of the very worst Uzbekistan under the ferocious rule of Islam Karimov.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- How long can the North Korean regime survive? A decade ago, it was taken as a matter of faith that it would soon be relegated to the same historical dustbin as the Soviet Union. But Kim Jong Il defied predictions of his political demise, and embarrassed pundits stopped even broaching the topic of the regime's life ...
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Some questions and answers about Pyongyang's nuclear weapon capabilities.
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Shedding new light on a bizarre Cold War tale, former US Army sergeant Charles Jenkins told a court martial in Japan that he and the others lived for years as a tightly knit - if not always harmonious â-roup honed by hardship, poverty and frequent
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Science & environment: Along with political cooperation, Seoul's plan to help the North with IT could shatter Cold War boundary
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Mention of North Korea inevitably summons up images of nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-Il and starving children, but a Briton has put on display a side of the reclusive country rarely seen -- its artwork.
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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Comment is free: Mark Seddon: There may be a simpler reason why North Korea has not disclosed its nuclear inventory
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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Sputnik changed everything - history, geopolitics, the scientific world. A reflection on the triumphs and disappointments of the space age.
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Fancy a sleek made-in-North Korea SUV? How about a pair of boxing gloves from the famously pugnacious communist country? They're potentially just a click away.
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Games with a political and social agenda have provided a novel take on world events.