Kim Jong-il

The Village Voice's Top 5 Book Events This Week, May 15-21, 2013

Fiona Maazel and Peter Trachtenberg Pete's Candy Store Thursday, May 16, 7:30 p.m., free In reality we've already got G-, Facebook-, Skype-, and every other type of non-synchronous chat option imaginable, but Fiona Maazel's new novel explores a more extreme quick-fix remedy for feeling alone. The pr ... More >>

Ladies, Fail Your Families With the Great Housekeeping Board Game From a 1963 Family Circle

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Family Circle magazines Date: March 1959 and March 1963 Discovered at: An Indiana flea market The Cover Promises: "The magazine you need for the life you lead." ... More >>

North Korea Pinch Hits for the USSR in Spy Thriller The Berlin File

Godzilla and Flowers: The Films of Kim Jong Il

Sacha Cohen's The Dictator Character Endorses Mitt Romney

At a press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, General Aladeen--aka Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator--unsurprisingly backed Mitt Romney for Prez. Explained the General: "He'd make a great dictator. He's incredibly wealthy but pays no taxes. And it's not much of a leap from firing people ... More >>

Next Step For North Korea: 'Kim Jong-il Haunting Things'

via​ Kim Jong-il's death has had a number of ripple effects, not least of which is the sudden obsolescence of the Kim Jong-il Looking at Things tumblr. Lucky for us, it's been replaced with a creepy new one: Kim Jong-il Haunting Things.

Holiday Guide: Readings to Feed Your Wintertime Fears

Bookshelf cower power

Hello Hello Ai Weiwei

Will the Chinese star's detention force the art world to better confront human rights?

North Korea Is Second Happiest Nation, According to North Korea

​According to a ranking done by Kim Jong-il's completely unbiased television station, the best place in the world to hang with happy people is...China! But why would you move there when the second happiest place in the world is North Korea? They're both pretty damn happy. China got a 100 out o ... More >>

The Red Chapel Crashes North Korea

New Year's Eve: Eats

Old stand-bys and some new kids on the block

Korean Attack Firefight Madness: The Bullet Point Roundup of North and South Korea's Giant, Scary Game of Battleship

​If you have any siblings -- or know anyone with siblings -- you probably know that as children, fights can erupt between the two as tensions are basically lifelong. And you are probably aware of the cliche when a parent walks in a ravaged room with two bleeding, hair-pulled, bite-marked child ... More >>

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu

Kim Jong-il and Respective Homies Having "Baller Status" Targeted by U.S. Sanctions

​Kim Jong-il does not, by any New York City standard at least, put the "Ill" in "il." In other words, he as an unhip a dictator as they come. Even Iran's pretty evil Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks like he could get "into the clurrb" in comparison. North Korean dictatorships? Kinda lacking in the "c ... More >>

Is North Korea's Kim Jong-il Playing Jimmy Carter?

​We've seen this sort of thing go down before. Someone is all about hanging out with you, emailing, calling, texting...and then when you finally set a date and prepare to meet, he or she debarks for another country spur of the moment, or maybe even stands you up outright. Can such be the case ... More >>

Project Runway: We've Got Their Number

​Last night's Project Runway's eighth season premiere encompassed a seemingly rebellious enthusiasm in the constrictive fashion world: more is...well, not better, if the glacial stride of these 90 minutes were any indication, but somehow worth having. More is just more. Hear that, ye waist-wh ... More >>

Jim Finn, Communist Dreamer, Makes Up a Better World, One Movie At a Time

Cannes Jury of One

Carlos wuz robbed

The Juche Idea

Bloomberg: The Movie (At Your Expense)

From L.A. to Bali, city workers film mayor touting himself at your expense

Clinton Sweeps Into L.A. with Rescued Women; Conservatives Roar, Soil Selves

Bill Clinton's negotiation of a pardon from Kim Jong-Il for journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee has, as you might expect, made conservatives angry ("Color me disgusted," "I want them out, but this way?" etc). "Since when does the US negotiate with terrorists?" asks one cowboy who was asleep the yea ... More >>

Nothing Like Ham to Slap Kim Jong-il in the Face

​ While foodies are obsessing over who will take over from Frank Bruni as the new New York Times' resident food critic, newsies are more concerned with the real issues, like Bill Clinton going to North Korea to help free US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have been detained there sin ... More >>

After Clinton Visit, Imprisoned Journalists "Pardoned" By North Korea

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two Current TV journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor by the North Koreans last month, have apparently been pardoned at the intercession of former President Bill Clinton. Clinton went to North Korea today and talked it over with Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, who in pre ... More >>

The New York Asian Film Festival Is the Best Ticket in Town

Still crazy after all these years

Bad Cop, No Donut: A Town Considers Martial Law

Whoa, things are so bad in the upstate town of Schenectady that the mayor is thinking about declaring martial law. Who says North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il can't teach us anything?    Mayor Brian Stratton might have good reason because in a tiny police force, five of cops have been ... More >>

Daily Flog: Obama installs Rahm to boot up Congress

Crossing the Line

'Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story'

NK Nukes: How Long 'Til Midnight?

NK Nuke Test: Drop Dimes, Not Bombs

Smear Leader

War is extra-large peace: Anti-imperial smack-speak courtesy of the People's Republic

Shadowland

An animated account of life under the Kim regime

North vs. West Gymnastics Documentary Sticks the Landing

O Brother, Where Art Thou?: A New Look at the Old South Korea

Attack of the Puppet People

Team America's critical mess: How reviewers misread the year's most potent political satire

Unstrung Heroes

Jingo march of a marionette: Neutered of satiric drive, farce leaves puppet regime standing

Downtown Express

25 movies to catch at the Tribeca Film Festival

Fine Young Communists

Uncle Sam Is Losing the War for Students in South Korea

Puncturing a Regime With Balloons

Activists to Float Free Radios Into Captive North Korea

Left Behind

'New York Times' Freelancer Languishes in Chinese Jail

Hero Worship

Berlin's Personae Non Gratae

Don't Fence Them In

NYC Peace Activists Vow to Face Down Bush's War

Original Pirate Material

Queens Upstart Skips the Middleman, Takes on Hip-Hop's Kings of New York

Nation

A Wanted Man

The Unlikely Campaign to Free Steve Kim, Armed Protester, Soldier of Conscience

Pleasure and Pain

Noodle Diplomacy

Passing the Bucks

Fund-Loving President's Fond 'Give Backs'