TOKYO, Japan — Few outsiders will ever get to witness Japan’s surreal state within a state, a network of businesses and schools that have sworn allegiance to North Korea.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 10, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — Given the tumultuous relations between Washington and Tehran, the nuclear pact announced early Sunday was the most significant diplomatic development between the two since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Nov 25, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — For North Korea watchers, the news is mysterious and the motives unknown. On October 26, an 85-year-old Korean War veteran from Palo Alto, California, became the second American detained in the past year in the world’s most reclusive state.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Nov 21, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Earlier this year, North Korea tested its third underground nuclear device and then launched a flurry of war threats against the US and South Korea. The three months of tensions, from January to April 2013, are often called the “2013 North Korea crisis.”
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Oct 5, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — It’s not every day that 47 Western bikers can ride through the world’s most reclusive state. Yet as part of a race that began in China, athletes zipped through North Korea’s port town of Rajin this week, Reuters reports. Traffic was blocked off, and the cyclists given an unusual stint of freedom to move around the area. (Not that there’s much traffic in North Korea anyway.)
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Sep 27, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — On Tuesday, a Chinese artist made headlines when he offered North Korea its very own wax figure of the deceased dictator, Kim Jong Il It’s a nod to the hermit state’s ruling family. The Dear Leader, as he’s called, is the father of the current head, Kim Jong Un.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 11, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — If there’s one key art form where North Korea beats the South, it’s beer-making. Pyongyang is home to Taedonggang, a government-made, full-bodied lager that The New York Times called one of the finest beers on the Korean peninsula. The beverage is named after Pyongyang’s Taedong River.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jun 27, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Whenever North and South Korea spar words, one poor little bystander always suffers: the hotline.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jun 13, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — The National Police Agency said on Thursday that it’s requesting the South Korean government block the “official” Facebook fan page of Korean Central Television, or KCTV, the Korea Herald reports.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jun 10, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Ghost companies set up in international tax havens could be sheltering the North Korean regime’s fortune, an investigation by South Korean journalists suggests.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jun 7, 2013
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