north korea
Is Juche an ideology, a scam, or a very strange religion?
Is it the key to understanding why North Korea acts like it does, or an elaborate sham?
Eugene Gholz, the associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, posits that President Trump’s decision to suspend U.S. military operations on the Korean peninsula negates decades of foreign policy.
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What’s really involved in snuffing out a country’s nuclear capabilities—and is that the right war to be waging?
There’s a deep psychological reason that America treats nuclear weapons like a spoiled child hogging all the neighborhood candy. Are we too paranoid to see it?
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North Korea has a long history of making bellicose threats that defy global norms. So does that mean the country’s leaders are irrational, and will act irrationally?
If Donald Trump’s political strategies look familiar, says Tim Wu, it’s because we’ve seen them before. Where? In the totalitarian regimes of China, North Korea, and Germany.
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The North Korean government bans sarcastic speech against itself or Kim Jong-un.
North Korea announces a new on-demand video service for its citizens.