So what does everyone think about this statement from Barack Obama?:

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says the Bush administration should have sought direct dialogue with North Korea earlier.
The Illinois senator said Sunday he felt disturbed to hear the North is likely to have helped Syria pursue a covert nuclear program. He said such […]

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Via One Free Korea comes the news that the great documentary from CNN, Undercover in the Secret State has been uploaded on to YouTube.  The documentary is narrated by Korean-American journalist Kim Jung-eun who makes quite clear through smuggled video footage and defector interviews what life is like in North Korea.  This is definitely must […]

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It appears that the expected food shortage in North Korea that One Free Korea has been reporting on in detail these last few months is in fact true:

North Korea recently asked China to provide massive rice aid for its hungry people amid a flare-up in tensions with South Korea, a news report said Friday.
Pyongyang […]

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I can only imagine what no good North Korea is up to signing trade and defense deals with Uganda.  Does anyone doubt that Kim Jong-il and Idi Amin would have hit if off if they were contemporaries?
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The final five episodes of The Vice Guide to North Korea has been released.  In these final episodes the presenter Shane Smith gets to learn such useful information about North Korea such as the fact Kim Jong-il created the world’s greatest reading desk.  The final episodes are listed below, check them out:
Episode 10 - The […]

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The ROK military has released more evidence that the international food aid given to North Korea is being diverted to the military:
The South Korean military captured North Korean authorities in flagrante delicto diverting rice intended for humanitarian purposes to the military, taking pictures near the Demilitarized Zone between 2006 and 2007 with a high-performance camera […]

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I’m sure no one will be surprised by the fact that North Korea has sided with China in regards to their heavy handed crackdown on Tibetan protesters.
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Well it looks like Russians will soon be able to take a holiday by way of the Siberian Express to lovely Najin, North Korea with the signing of a deal by Russia with North Korea to renovate North Korea’s rail link to the nation.
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I have long been an advocate of increasing radio broadcasts into North Korea in order to begin fighting the information war within the country. Radio broadcasts serve as a means to counter all the anti-US propaganda that North Koreans are fed on a daily basis and the effectiveness of these radio broadcasts can be proven […]

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It appears the world’s bad actors are really counting on a Obama presidency:
The U.S. daily Wall Street Journal has reported that North Korea, Iran, Syria and other U.S. adversaries are readjusting their strategy toward the United States, dragging their feet in hopes that the next U.S. administration will shift from the Bush administration’s foreign […]

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I recommend everyone head over to One Free Korea and read his report on mounting tensions between the North Korean military and Kim Jong-il’s secret police.
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Here is a great example of North Korean priorities.  North Korea has to rely on the international community to feed it’s people, but is now offering to send Thailand $100 million dollars to build a subway.
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