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Kim Jong-il
April 23, 2020
Ankit Panda
What Happens If Kim Jong Un Dies?
Reports of the dictator’s death may be exaggerated, but his health is undeniably brittle, and so is his regime.
October 22, 2018
MagazineSuki Kim
The Dealmaker
Splashy summits and Nobel Prize talk are a sideshow. The real power behind peace on the Korean Peninsula isn’t Donald Trump or even Kim Jong-un. It's South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
March 22, 2018
Colin Dickey
Why Dictators Write
What Saddam Hussein’s romance novels and Kim Jong-il’s film criticism reveal about authoritarianism.
September 8, 2017
MagazineCarl De Keyzer/Magnum, Jean H. Lee
Land of the Hermit King
Closed off from the world, North Korea weaves a highly militarized mind-set into the fabric of everyday life.
December 18, 2014
Claire Groden, Elaine Teng
Stop Making Fun of North Korea
Our laughter is drowning out their horrific human rights record
January 27, 2014
Linda Kinstler
Kim Jong Il Bowls a 300
and Other Great Moments in North Korean Sports
March 16, 2012
Nick Robins-Early, Perry Stein, Eric Wen
The Strange Pop Culture Tastes of Dictators
January 25, 2012
Ruth Franklin
The True Lies of Totalitarian North Korea
January 14, 2012
Bennett Ramberg
Why We Need Détente With North Korea
January 13, 2012
Nathan Pippenger
So You Want To Preserve A Dictator's Corpse
December 21, 2011
Tom Malinowski
Is There Any Way To Help the People of North Korea?
December 20, 2011
Gilbert Rozman
Kim Jong-un, Reformer? The Promise and Peril of North Korea’s Succession Crisis
December 20, 2011
Matt O'Brien, Thomas Stackpole, Jarad Vary
The Greatest Crimes of the World’s Most Terrible Dictator
December 20, 2011
The Editors
The Worst Man
December 19, 2011
Alec MacGillis
No Bain, Much Gain
December 19, 2011
Nathan Pippenger
Was North Korea Ready For The Death Of Kim Jong-il?
July 28, 2011
Ben Birnbaum
Generation Why
March 8, 2011
Jonathan Chait
Attack Of The Pod People
December 20, 2010
Joshua Kurlantzick
Burma Bombshell
December 2, 2010
Joshua Kurlantzick
Kimpossible

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