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Mythmaking is a long-time specialty of Pyongyang-watchers
by MARK MacKINNON (Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Dec. 04, 2010) “There’s wistfulness in the young man’s eyes, a longing for home as he walks purposefully along the edge of a lake that looks to be...
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North Korean Art Stirs Muscovites
By Leonid Petrov (Asia Times On-Line, 2 Feb. 2011) After two months, an exhibition in Moscow of North Korean graphics, mosaics and embroidery is coming to a close. Oddly entitled “And Water Flows...
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North Korea and ’80s pop music
(23 Feb. 2012) On this week’s Closeup, ABC Radio National “Drive” travels to North Korea, by way of the 1980s Norwegian pop hit ‘Take On Me’ by A-ha. Leonid Petrov, lecturer in Korean studies at the...
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Russia Friendship Section Added to ARIRANG Mass Games
by Chad O’Carroll (NK News, 23 July 2013) Headline image by Koryo Tours. SEOUL – North Korea has added a chapter on Russian friendship to the Arirang Mass Games, a source who attended the show on...
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North Korea: Slovenian rock group Laibach set to become first foreign band...
(ABC News, 17 July 2015) Slovenian rock group Laibach is set to become the first foreign band to tour the politically and culturally isolated communist dictatorship of North Korea. In August, the group...
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