Library:DPRK Study Guide

Important sources about the DPRK helping to debunk the endless stream of imperialist propaganda used to discredit it.

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Articles

• Understanding North Korea - Crucial introductory read on the DPRK’s historical background.
• Interview: Understanding and Defending North Korea - Very insightful must read interview with Yongho Thae, Minister of the DPRK embassy in London.
• North Korean diplomat on the Syrian War
• North Korea Foreign Minister On What Is Needed For Negatiations With US
• My trip to North Korea: 13 misconceptions corrected
• DPRK mourning Fidel Castro
• Bruce Cumings on the North Korean Economy
• Korea’s Tricky Task: Digging Up Past Treachery - On the imperialist puppets who were installed by the US: Syngman Rhee and a legion of former collaborators with the Japanese colonialists.
• North Korea Punished for Helping to Liberate Africa
• How Black Panthers turned to North Korea in fight against US imperialism
• The North Korea – Cuba Connection
• Fidel Castro Says North Korea Sent Cuba Free Weapons During Cold War
• America’s War against the people of Korea: The Historical Record of US War Crimes
• North Korea: The Grand Deception Revealed
• On Smoking Weed in North Korea
• A Lot Of What You Know About North Korea Is Racist Nonsense
• The Importance of International Solidarity: DPRK’s Support for Hezbollah
• The Importance of International Solidarity: DPRK – Palestine
• DPRK on Palestine
• Kim Jong Il – a Friend of all Progressive Peoples
• North Korea: an unlikely champion in the fight against climate change
• The Dream Of North Korea Is Alive In West Africa
• Interview: Thousands of North Korea Juche supporters exist in Nigeria
• Freed American Matthew Miller: ‘I wanted to stay in North Korea’
• North Korean Medical Care is Good
• Health Care in North Korea
• Brazen American Imperialist Aggressors: Seeing the World from the DPRK
• North Korea, “Genocide by Sanctions”: UN Double Standards Pertaining to Sanctions and their Devastating Social Impacts
• KNOW THE FACTS: North Korea lost close to 30% of its population as a result of US bombings in the 1950s
• War Crimes Investigation of North Korea Ludicrous Beyond Words
• North Korea, The UN, And War Propaganda
• The origins of the DPRK: From Division to Reunification (broken link)
• Disabled North Korean musicians showcase talent on UK tour
• The truth about North Korea: it’s booming
• The 7th Party Congress in North Korea: A Return to a New Normal
• The Real Reason Washington is Worried about North Korea’s ICBM Test
• North Korea will not use nuclear weapons first, says Kim Jong-un
• Pyongyang: U.S. customs agents ‘mugged’ North Korean diplomats at JFK airport
• Pyongyang’s Construction Boom: Is North Korea Beating Sanctions?
• North Korean defector returns home calling South ‘capitalist hell’
• Why North Korea is developing nuclear weapons
• North Korea still digging up U.S. bombs 64 years after the war
• Expert Exposes Us Biological Warfare During Korean War (broken link)
• Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?
• South Korea boosts reward for defectors from North to $860,000
• President Kim Il Sung’s Immortal Contributions to African Liberation
• Why two North Korean defectors want to go back
• Former defector back in North Korea describes ”painful” life in the South
• Towards a concrete analysis of the DPRK
• Exclusive: The Greek Who Lived in North Korea Tells Her Story
• The North Korea Neither Trump Nor Western Media Wants the World to See
• Why Latinx Must Defend the DPRK
• Xi Jinping says Pyongyang, Beijing should develop ”sustainable” relations
• Speech delivered by Nina Andreyeva at Kim Il Sung University in 1992 about the fall of the Soviet Union
• S. Koreans Opposed To War On N. Korea Banned From Entering US (broken link)
• Between Sanctions, Drought and Tensions: How Bad is North Korea’s Food Situation?
• North Korea is sitting on $6 trillion-$10 trillion of untapped minerals
• North Korea in the eyes of Turkey’s Socialists
• Kim Il Sung and Salvador Allende
• NK envoy: We want peace but ready for war with US
• Cuba, N. Korea unite in rejecting ‘unilateral & arbitrary’ US pressure
• North Korea’s bitcoin crash course has experts worried
• The Social and Economic Achievements of North Korea
• After fleeing North Korea, some defectors want to go back to life under Kim Jong-un
• Interview with the Norwegian coach of the DPRK men’s football team who lives in Pyongyang
• The Present Situation in the DPRK
• The Hypocrisy of Western Aggression Against Korea: from Truman to Trump
• U.S. Military Used Christian NGO as Front for North Korea Espionage
• Zombie Nation? ‘Executed’ North Koreans return to life
• North Korean defector confesses to murder
• The Olympics Has Exposed Every US Lie About North Korea (broken link)
• North Korea Calls Trump Administration Racist Billionaires’ Club
  • Full paper on which this article is based here: White Paper on the Human Rights Violations in the US in 2017 (broken link)
• Syria and DPRK: An excellent example of strong bilateral cooperation
• North Korean Special Forces in Syria; A Look at Pyongyang’s Assistance to Damascus’ Counterinsurgency Operations (broken link)
• Jeju Island marks 70th anniversary of 1948 massacres
• Kim Jong Un’s speech during his visit to China in March 2018 (broken link)
• Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un hold talks in Dalian
• Twelve north Korean waitresses kidnapped in operation by south Korean spy agency
• Comrades-in-arms: The DPRK and Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
• Pyongyang officials go to study China reforms
• Dermot Hudson on North Korea’s Motives and Likely Moves in Negotiations
• ”Advancing the cause of socialism”: The DPRK and the Cuban Revolution
• A Conversation with a North Korean citizen
• Standing against Zionism: the DPRK’s support for Palestinian Liberation
• The ”same trench of the anti-imperialist struggle”: DPRK’s solidarity with Syria
• Kim Jong Un pays tribute to martyrs of Chinese People’s Volunteers
• ‘We can’t use Korean names’: Japan’s large pro-Pyongyang diaspora lives amid suspicion & isolation
• North Korea’s economy grows 3.7% in 2017: professor
• Cuban Military Modernisation Underway – With Full Russian and North Korean Support

Documentaries

• My Brothers and Sisters in the North - Best documentary on the DPRK I have seen from a non-DPRK source, depicting everyday life of the working class in the DPRK, including soldiers, water park workers, students, teachers, football coaches, painters, textile workers and farmers
• The Propaganda Game (also available on Netflix) - Good introductory documentary that shatters some of the most blatant imperialist propaganda. Still has to be viewed critically, as the Western ‘experts’ in it make their living from being dishonest.
• The Haircut
• Best political commentators of this moment, check out their other videos as well.
• The West Through the Eyes of North Korea
• The Happiest People on Earth
• Crossing The Line
• They Choose China
• My Socialist Country
• Korea: The Imposed Divide
• An African-American’s Journal Inside North Korea - Short documentary on the DPRK made by journalist Andre Vltchek
• Homegrown Outcasts: North Koreans in Japan
• Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul

Videos

• Living in North Korea: Greek woman who lived in the DPRK for two years
• North Korean Propaganda: A Cavalcade of Comedy (broken link)
• The propaganda war against North Korea
• Eid Al-Fitr in North Korea | Muslim in North Korea
• Surfing in North Korea
• North Korean Smartphone
• Why do North Korean defectors keep changing their stories?
• Press TV in the DPRK: videos on various subjects
• Mr. Kim from the DPRK embassy in London gives a speech on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution
• Sons of US defector to North Korea James Dresnok speak out after father’s death
• Eva Bartlett speaks on North Korea & Syria
• Women’s Status in the DPRK

Websites

• KCNA Watch - DPRK news articles directly translated to English. DPRK media are generally far more truthful than Western media, see for instance this article on the US war on terror or this one on how the West caused the world’s biggest refugee crisis.
• Rodong Sinmun - More news, official DPRK site.
• The Pyongyang Times - More news, official DPRK site.
• Naenara - More news, official DPRK site.
• Explore DPRK
• Big archive of around 500 works of art from the DPRK
• World malnutrition death rates, with the DPRK ranked #95
• Pyongyang International Film Festival
• Official DPRK Tourism Site
• International Network for the Defence of Socialist Korea

System

• Governmental structure
• Constitution of the DPRK
• Elections in the socialist motherland: democracy in the DPRK
• Democracy: US vs DPRK – Towards Annihilation of a Narrative
• Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea
• Socialism and Democracy in the DPRK
• Understanding the Workers’ Party of Korea

Juche

• Official DPRK site with free books, periodicals, pictures, leaflets, etc.
• Greatest source there is for books about all kinds of DPRK related subjects.
• Korea DPR E-Library
• Large collection of Juche texts.
• Kim Il Sung on Marxists.org
• Handful of Kim Il Sung texts.
• Kim Jong Un Aphorisms
• Kim Jong Il – Socialism is a Science
• Kim Jong Il – On the Juche Idea
• Juche Idea: Answer to Hundred Questions
• Kim Il Sung on his father Kim Hyong Jik, who was a leading figure in the national liberation movement and steered them towards Communism
• Kim Jong Il – On Having a Correct Understanding of Nationalism
• Kim Il Sung – For the Independent, Peaceful Reunification of Korea