North Korea

Christ, It's Another Red Dawn

North Korea (and audiences) go home unhappy

Rural Restaurant: No Rice, Still Nice

More great food from China's far northeastern corner

They Call It Myanmar

Is New York on Iran's Missile Hit List? The GOP Seems To Think So

Oh boy. Some Congressional Republicans really want to set up an East Coast missile defense shield to protect the Atlantic Seaboard from Iranian rockets, Mother Jones reports. If this sounds familiar -- like a throwback to Reagan-era Star Wars shenanigans -- that's because the plan is just like ... More >>

North Korean State-Run News Agency Responds To Failed Missile Launch With 33 Stories Praising "Supreme Leader"

North Korea pissed off just about everyone yesterday when it launched a missile that the international community fears could be the precursor to the communist dictatorship developing an intercontinental missile that could potentially carry a nuclear warhead. The missile, thankfully, failed.If you ha ... More >>

COMIC CHRONICLES

A graphic novel turns sacrosanct

The Intimate Details of Japanese Life in "Extreme Private Ethos"

Happy Birthday, Kim Jong-un!

If you're wondering why the trees seem to wave in celebration today and the skies shine with joy, it's because January 8th marks the birthday of the newest dear leader, Kim Jong-un. According to the Telegraph, the exact date of his birth was unknown and had to be discovered through "testimonies from ... More >>

Escaping North Korea, But Not Hard Times in The Journals of Musan

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 >>

Migrating Forms: A Fest That Defies Definition

Rightbloggers Counter Eco-Nazis' "Earth Hour" by Patriotically Wasting Electricity

This weekend, an unknown number of people worldwide participated in the fifth annual "Earth Hour" sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund. They turned off electricity to "take a stand against climate change." Landmarks were dimmed, but the effect on either energy consumption or awareness is unknown an ... More >>

The Red Chapel

Year in Film: Hoberman's Top 10

Old timers, newcomers, and even Leo make the list

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 >>

Dark Days of the Korean War Recounted in Chosin

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 >>

Morning Links: Stabbed Muslim Cabbie Glad to Be New Yorker; Levi Johnston Says He's Actually Not Sorry to Sarah Palin

​• The Muslim cabbie stabbed by a passenger says he's still glad to be a New Yorker: "I feel like I belong here," he said. "This is the city actually [for] all colors, races, religion, everyone. We live here side by side peacefully." Meanwhile, friends of accused stabber Michael Enright say ... 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 >>

North Korea Would Like To Pay Its Debt to Czech Republic in Ginseng

As good as gold?​Everything is totally fine in North Korea! It's just that, well, about that US$10 million dollar debt they owe to the Czech Republic...they'd like to repay at least part of it in ginseng.

World Cup Whimsy: Here Is A Video Of Portugal Scoring Seven Goals On North Korea, Set To Cake's "I Bombed Korea," Which I Frankly Find Just Delightful

Courtesy Deadspin's ongoing Culturally Insensitive World Cup Goal Roundup series comes footage of the touchdown Portugal laid on North Korea Monday, set to (the vastly underrated) Cake's (surprisingly poignant, though not particularly in this context) "I Bombed Korea." Stick around for a good TLC ... More >>

Morning Links: Fergie's Out of Cash, BP Spill Estimate at 85.3 Million Gallons, Make Way for Sailors

​• Poor Fergie gets only $21K a year from her ex husband Prince Andrew and really may not have a "bean to her name." Not that that excuses anything.

Morning Links: OTB Lives, New Yorkers Imagine a World Without Doormen, Chastity Becomes Chaz

​Hey, it's Monday, time for lots and lots of coffee and, of course, your Monday morning update. • The OTB has a second (ninth?) life. The board voted to keep operations open for at least another year, and will submit a plan on how they will restructure the company to the New York State Wage ... More >>

The Red Chapel

Kimjongilia Addresses the Mess that Is North Korea

Women Eat Less on Dates with Men (Duh!); New York Cafes Go WiFi-less

​A new study shows that women eat more when they eat with large groups of other women, and that -- shocker! -- they eat less when there are men present. Women will consume about 110 calories less when they're on date with a man than if eating with a girlfriend. [WebMD] "President Obama's daug ... 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 >>

2 U.S. Reporters Sentenced to 12 Years Hard Labor in North Korea

Having given the world the finger with its recent missle and nuclear tests, North Korea has taken things further by sentencing two American correspondents from Al Gore's Current TV to 12 years at hard labor. Reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by the North Koreans on March 17, and this m ... More >>

Iran, N. Korea Prepare to Attack U.S.

Iran claims to have launched its first homemade satellite on Monday. "With God's help and the desire for justice and peace," Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced via sophisticated Iranian television technology, "the official presence of the Islamic Republic was registered in space." Meanwhile Nor ... More >>

Daily Flog: Obama installs Rahm to boot up Congress

NYUFF IS ENOUGH

Film fest takes its final bow

Crossing the Line

Stuff You Need to Know About to Avoid Ostracism

NK Nukes: How Long 'Til Midnight?

NK Nuke Test: Drop Dimes, Not Bombs

Shadowland

An animated account of life under the Kim regime

North vs. West Gymnastics Documentary Sticks the Landing

Morning Report 6/1/05
Goooooaaaaallll!: World Domination!

An Embarrassing Display of Riches

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

The Devil You Don't Know

Our half-century-old fears of North Korea have turned it into a tabula rasa

On Purpose

Celebrating 35 years of activist filmmaking

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

Nation

Nation

Rite for the Wronged

Symbolic Tribunal Tries U.S. for Crimes in Korea

Noodle Diplomacy

Passing the Bucks

Fund-Loving President's Fond 'Give Backs'