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The Interview DVD smuggled to North Korea by giant balloon
North Korea won’t have to wait much longer for Sony’s film The Interview to premiere in the country, with activists in South Korea planning to send copies over the border by balloon.
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Gamers get back online after Christmas Day outages
Millions of gamers can finally pick their joypads back up as services on Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s Playstation Network are restored after a suspected attack took both down over Christmas.
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North Korea back online after internet blackout
North Korea suffers an internet outage for several hours before links were restored on Tuesday, but the US government refuses to say whether it is responsible.
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North Korea threatens attacks on US over Sony hacking
North Korea threatens the United States, calling it a “cesspool of terrorism” and accusing the Obama administration of being behind the satirical film The Interview.
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Obama ‘may put North Korea back on terror list’
US President Barack Obama says the cyber hack against Sony, blamed on North Korea, is not an “act of war” – but is considering putting them back on the terror list.
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North Korea urges joint Sony hack inquiry
North Korea denies any involvement in the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures and offers to hold a joint inquiry with the United States.
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Sony cancels release of The Interview after hack threat
Sony Pictures scraps its comedy film based on the fictional assassination of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, after embarrassing internal emails are leaked and further cyber hacks are threatened.
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North Korea hopes surf tour leads to tourism boom
Thinking of a late summer holiday? Thousands want out of the gulag, but tourists want in. Here are some postcards from North Korea’s nascent tourism boom.
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North Korean defector: 'I saw people dead on the street'
A mother and son, who face execution in North Korea, say they fled the country because they were always hungry.
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Risking near-certain death to escape from North Korea
North Koreans caught trying to flee their country face execution. But for one mother and her son, the risk was worth it.
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Six tougher acts to follow than Sir Alex Ferguson
As David Moyes licks his wounds, a victim of his predecessor’s success, Channel 4 News would like him to take heart – there are many who have been forced to live in the shadow of “giants”.
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North Korean official ‘executed by flamethrower’
North Korea’s regime executes a high-ranking official “by flamethrower”, a South Korean newspaper reports.
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South Korea drone crash – did it come from the North?
An unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone, has crashed in South Korea, officials say, raising suspicions that it is a part of North Korea’s burgeoning espionage arsenal.
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North Korea: miscarriages, executions and starvation
Ahead of a detailed UN report on human rights in North Korea. Amnesty International releases a video of former prisoners and guards describing the extreme suffering in Kim Jong-un’s gulags.
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Life in North Korea: executions, starvation and fear
The horrific brutality of life in North Korea is laid bare in a UN report, which describes how the state maintains a climate of fear through executions, enforced disappearances and starvation.