North Korea

Life & CultureYeonmi Park: is the DPRK defector a western psy-op?

Film & TVAna Lily Amirpour: ‘I’m not just a female filmmaker – I’m a weirdo artist’

FashionKim Jong-un bans leather coats to stop citizens stealing his drip

Film & TVA North Korean man who smuggled copies of Squid Game is sentenced to death

MusicKim Jong-un thinks K-pop is a ‘vicious cancer’

FashionKim Jong-un cracks down on ‘decadent’ fashion: mullets and skinny jeans

Beauty newsIs Kim Jong-un the new face of South Korean beauty?

MusicGrimes is back with new single ‘We Appreciate Power’

Art & PhotographySpeaking to three artists who escaped from North Korea

Film & TVInside the making of North Korea’s first girl power movie

Art & PhotographyThe artist painting beautiful, raunchy stories about queer life

MusicKim Jong-un watches K-pop stars perform in North Korea

MusicNorth Korea to host first K-pop shows since 2005

Science & TechA beauty app has just been launched in North Korea

MusicNorth Korea sends pop star to talks with South Korea

Film & TVThe trash-smashing Korean grindcore band making shitty music

PoliticsWas this North Korean defector and TV star abducted?

MusicFollowing the first western band to play in North Korea

Arts+CultureStudent dies after being detained for a year in North Korea

MusicLana Del Rey writes new song on way back from Coachella

Arts+CultureTalking to Werner Herzog about volcanoes and death

Arts+CultureThe North Korean dictator who kidnapped two movie stars

Arts+CultureYouTuber visiting North Korea denies being ‘propaganda tool’

Arts+CultureUS student given 15 years hard labour in a North Korean camp