North Korea

MEREDITH SHAW delves into the literature the secretive state produces for its population and discovers reading between the lines. North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Un. Photo: PA – Credit: Yonhap News Agency/PA Images With colourful rhetoric about ‘dotards’ (the insult thrown at Donald Trump by Kim Jong-un) and nuclear buttons, North Korean propaganda is certainly attracting […]

Pyongyang is capital of the world’s most secretive, suspicious – and dangerous – state. COLIN ALEXANDER has visited and explains what the place can tell us about the regime and how its current high stakes stand-off may play out Most of the chaperoned tours to North Korea each year include a walk through some well-tended […]