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It is confirmed: the Arirang Mass Games will be held in Pyongyang, North Korea this summer. The event will run from August 10, 2009 through the end of September, highlighting the precision for which the DPRK performers have become famous. According ...

Read part 1 of this post here. And for additional reading, be sure to check out former Gadling blogger Neil Woodburn's excellent series, "Infiltrating North Korea," from last year. I also reported from North Korea for The Washington Post and The ...

There's something chilling about journalists being detained and tried in a foreign country ... a prospect made all the more uncomfortable when you throw the "Dear Leader" into the mix. But, do we really know what's about to happen? Well, aside from ...

This may just be the coolest bit of news you read all day... While any news story involving North Korean scientists tends to be about nuclear proliferation, today's Big in Japan post is in fact a salute to these hard-working men and women. In a ...

In celebration of the latest James Bond flick (granted, it was Die Another Day that featured blatant stereotypes about North Korean goons) and a longish piece in this week's Harper's on North Korea's propaganda machine, I thought I'd give a history ...

The ban on UK visitors in the DPRK has been removed for the summer, according to an e-mail announcement from Koryo Tours. This was the last of the restrictions that the world was waiting for North Korean authorities to lift. Citizens from the UK ...

Every once in a while, I like to head over to the website of North Korea's state-run news agency to see what propaganda they're currently feeding their unsuspecting populace. Here are a couple headlines and stories I've found: "Kim Jong Il Praised As ...

Part 1 here. On Day 2, he focused on the "three frees" of Korean society: education, healthcare, and housing. Because we had a two-hour bus ride to Mt. Myohyang, home to a 400-room fortress where gifts to the DPRK are proudly displayed, he invited ...

We here at Gadling don't like to brag, but between Neil Woodburn's Infiltrating North Korea series and Jerry Guo's new article in the Washington Post, we've got North Korea covered. This past Sunday, Jerry wrote a dispatch from the kingdom of North ...

With the latest deal from Koryo Tours on travel to Pyongyang for the amazing Arirang event, one commenter had a great question: "I'd love to go and take lots of pictures, but I wonder if they would allow that??" Well, Kelso, you would definitely ...