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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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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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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.
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Paddy Power stops sponsoring Rodman’s North Korea trips
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power withdraws its sponsorship of former US basketballer Dennis Rodman’s trips to North Korea in response to “recent events”.
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Forced to dig their own graves: the brutality of North Korean labour camps
The international community has called on the secretive state to close its gulags, but now it seems they are expanding them.
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Why the official version of North Korean life is a carefully constructed lie
Defectors’ tales of food shortages and fear expose the official story of life in North Korea – handed out to the few journalists allowed to enter the country – as a carefully constructed lie.
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Did North Korea’s leader have his ex-girlfriend executed?
She topped the charts with her hit song “Excellent Horse-like Lady”: but reports claim the North Korean dictator’s former girlfriend has been executed by firing squad.
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A few days in the life of Pyongyang
The showcase community of an outcast regime: Channel 4 News glimpses life in the opulence and eerie quiet of North Korea’s capital Pyongyang.
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Four days in North Korea – a ‘chasm’ away from rest of world
Accused of insulting “the people of the nation” before rendering his minders speechless – Asia Correspondent John Sparks reports from inside North Korea.
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US delays missile test as North Korea tensions mount
The US postpones plans to carry out a missile test in California next week over fears it will increase tensions with North Korea, as Foreign Secretary William Hague calls for calm over the crisis.