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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
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
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
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
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)
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
Jeju Island marks 70th anniversary of 1948 massacres
Kim Jong Un’s speech during his visit to China in March 2018
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

Videos

Living in North Korea: Greek woman who lived in the DPRK for two years

Must watch, incredibly informative.

North Korean Propaganda: A Cavalcade of Comedy

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