North Korea Bans Sarcasm Because Kim Jong-Un Fears Ironic Praise
"This is all America's fault" among the newly prohibited phrases in the Hermit Kingdom.
North Korea
Libertarian Gary Johnson Clarifies Foreign Policy Stances
Anti-Iran deal but pro-trade, wants to encourage China to curb North Korea, and too experienced with the actual complications of governing to want to rethink World War II on the fly.
Ten Reasons to Defect From North Korea
What would make someone want to flee "The Hermit Kingdom"?
Russian, Chinese Foreign Ministers Complain About North Korea Missile Tests, U.S. Korean Missile Defense System
Dealing with the consequences of China's interventionist foreign policy.
Being Establishment Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry for Regime Change in the Name of 'Stability'
Media darling John Kasich wants to take out North Korea, too
Liberal Media Darling John Kasich Is an Interventionist Nightmare
The rational "moderate" wants to overthrow Assad, wage a "massive" war against ISIS, punch Russia in the nose, green-light pre-emptive strikes against North Korea and maybe Iran, and give government access to your cell phone...but it's all good because he expanded Medicaid and isn't Donald Trump
North Korea Claims It Just Detonated a Hydrogen Bomb For the First Time
A hydrogen bomb would represent a step up from the less-powerful nuclear technology North Korea had relied on previously.
In Order to Live: Yeonmi Park's North Korean Defector Story
Yeonmi Park escaped from North Korea. But will her story survive scrutiny?
When Governments Offer Empty Health Care Promises, Black Markets Deliver the Goods
From the Third World to the First World, officials can't exempt medicine from the laws of economics.
North Korea's Grassroots Capitalism
How creeping market forces are improving life in the Hermit Kingdom.
Friday A/V Club: Laibach Goes to Pyongyang
The most poker-faced joke in the history of pop music...maybe
North Korea vs. Art
The communist dictatorship has long had a weird relationship with creative expression
New North Korean Slogans Call for 'Socialist Fairyland,' 'Country of Mushrooms'
The regime marks its 70th anniversary with a new propaganda barrage.
Watch The Interview and Stand Up for Freedom
Americans don't like being told what they cannot say or hear.
In 2014, Frightened Rulers Did Scary Things
Autocracy showed staying power in conspicuous places.
Friday A/V Club: An Exclusive Look at Sony's Revised Cut of The Interview
Or something like that
Four Thoughts on North Korea, Hollywood, Free Speech, and Terrorist Threats
Notes from the post-Interview era
Texas Theater Will Show Team America in The Interview's Place
The Alamo Drafthouse takes a stand.
North Korea Releases Two American Detainees
No more Americans currently being held by nation
North Korea Reacts to Ebola Pretty Much Exactly the Way You'd Expect North Korea to React to Ebola
Pyongyang's paranoia finds a new target.
Kim Jong Un Reportedly Makes Public Appearance
According to the not-exactly-trustworthy North Korean state media
Second American Sentenced to "Labor Re-Education" Camp in North Korea
California 20-something ripped up his tourist visa and demanded asylum before being arrested, charged, and tried
