North Korea is raising a glass to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the pouring of the first pint of its flagship Taedonggang beer although the accolades have failed to acknowledge its distinctly capitalist roots.
North Korea is raising a glass to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the pouring of the first pint of its flagship Taedonggang beer although the accolades have failed to acknowledge its distinctly capitalist roots.
Coronavirus: How the pandemic is hitting North Korea hard
Pyongyang officially denies any confirmed infections in the isolation nation, but there is little doubt among experts that it has suffered at least some cases of the virus.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
North Korea was one of the first countries in the world to effectively seal its borders with the outside world in January 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world.
Now more than a year later, while the coronavirus situation in North Korea remains unclear, various reports indicate the North Korean people are suffering both from the economic impact of lockdown measures, and from the virus itself.
Fighting Kim Jong Un s regime with balloons
As the trial in Kim Jong Nam s murder case got underway in Malaysia on Monday, there s no doubt in North Korean dissident Park Sang Hak s mind as to who the real culprit was. Fabian Kretschmer reports from Seoul.
For Park Sang Hak, the ghastly murder of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un s sibling Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur airport was more than mere news. The incident evoked traumatic memories for the 49-year-old who himself has been on the hit list of the Pyongyang regime for years.
Park, a slender man with nervous looks, is generally jittery about sharing his whereabouts. To talk to DW, he invited this writer to a small library located on the outskirts of the South Korean capital Seoul. My life is always in danger, said the activist, adding that his goal was to survive the North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un.