That little belly dancing skirt stretched around her diaper is just too adorable/bizarre. more ›

Jende Huang writes on Sino-NK about the illicit trade in crystal meth between North Korea and China. Curiously, China doesn't seem to be too keen in reprimanding the DPRK for the production and export of meth, or bingdu (冰毒) in Chinese. more ›

Watched that video of the five young North Korean accordionists' rendition of A-ha's Take On Me and still haven't had enough? Now, here's a North Korean group named Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble performing Modern Talking's Brother Louie! more ›

Remember that video of the five young North Korean accordionists' rendition of A-ha's Take On Me? It's totally gone viral since we showed it to you last Friday (watch it if you haven't!). Evan Ramstad, the Wall Street Journal's Seoul correspondent, caught up with Morten Traavik, the artist behind the performance that will soon open at Barents Spektakel, an international arts fest in Norway. He writes of Traavik's long labour of love in making the project happen: more ›

South Korea's Chosun Ilbo has translated some very interesting comments by Kim Jong-nam -- the eldest son, and at one point, the presumed successor of the late Kim Jong-il -- made to Yoji Komi, an editor at the Tokyo Shimbun daily, in private emails sent between 2004 and 2011. In the emails, Kim reveals he has never met his half-brother Kim Jong-un, that his regime will not last very long, and that the "Great Successor" once went to Japan on a fake passport. He also admitted to being "protected" by the Chinese government: more ›

Raw footage from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA): The Associated Press opens its latest full news bureau in Pyongyang located inside the KCNA headquarters. more ›

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James T. Areddy of the Wall Street Journal paid a visit to some of Shanghai's most popular North Korean restaurants following news of the demise of the "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il. Here's what he found more ›

Kim Jong Il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, passed away Saturday of exhaustion brought on by a sudden illness, according to the Korean Central News Agency. more ›

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Just as Europe is hoping for China to be its sugar daddy financial savior, tourism industries throughout the Asia Pacific region are bending over backwards to court Chinese tourists and the revenue boost they represent. We thought a special round-up on the subject was in order. more ›

South Korea's embattled Lee Myung Bak administration has named former ambassador to Russia Lee Kyu-hyung new ambassador to China, the third in as many years. more ›

On Saturday, Seoul was covered in a blanket of yellow dust for more than two hours, and the whole nation put under the first yellow dust alert of the year. The dust has been found to be radioactive, but it isn't coming from Fukushima, it's coming from China. more ›

The Korean Foreign Minister has issued an apology over the sex scandal involving three Korean consulate members in Shanghai. All three men under investigation are suspected to have had relations with the same woman! That's a pretty scandalous-y scandal. more ›

"China must make the world understand that any matter relating to the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula concerns the core interests of China. Anyone stoking the flames of war on the Korean peninsula is challenging China, and declaring war with China." more ›