“Glare fiercely! Hatred in your eyes!” the director shouts at a team of actors on a war-torn movie set. “Comrades! I don’t see any resentment towards the Japanese in your faces.”
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jun 6, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — You’ll learn far more about what’s going on in North Korea when you leave the country, several former residents of the country have told GlobalPost.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
May 17, 2013
For a glimpse into life in North Korea, take a peek into the country’s math textbooks. “During the Fatherland Liberation War [North Korea’s official name for the Korean War] the brave uncles of Korean People’s Army killed 265 American Imperial bastards in the first battle,” reads one question.
By Geoffrey Cain
The Christian Science Monitor
May 10, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — I’m now reading an advance copy of Andrei Lankov’s upcoming book, “The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia,” due out from Oxford University Press on May 8.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 24, 2013
SEOUL — Now that Dennis Rodman is home, how many Washington policymakers are bitter that they didn’t get to be the first American to meet Kim Jong-un?
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 7, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — “We should settle accounts with the United States only with the gun barrel, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival.”
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Feb 2, 2013
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Dec 17, 2012
In the late 1950s, thousands of Chinese farmers starved to death while toiling on massive irrigation projects, under orders to meet Mao Zedong’s outlandish expectations for growth. Most laborers didn’t speak up because they feared the authorities would label them rightists.
By Geoffrey Cain
The Christian Science Monitor
Nov 2, 2010
SEOUL, South Korea — Heinz Insu Fenkl, a literature professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, has cracked one secret to understanding the bizarre regime of North Korea: by reading its comic books.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Oct 25, 2010
Many Americans may remember peering at a famous satellite photograph of the two Koreas – prosperous South Korea lit up by cities and commerce, juxtaposed with the eerie black void of North Korea.
By Geoffrey Cain
The Christian Science Monitor
Feb 25, 2010
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