North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination bega….

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic..

North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world.….

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon mono….

A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier….

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic..