Blog posts tagged "North Korea"

April 24, 2012 11:59 am 3 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the case of Shin Dong-hyuk, who escaped from a North Korean prison camp.

April 13, 2012 8:27 am 4 Comments

According the state propagandists in Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or North Korea to the rest of us), this year was going to be big and glorious. So it was rather surprising to see an official admission of failure from the state's news agency this morning.

June 20, 2011 8:55 am 2 Comments

John Sparks observes Pyongyang's propaganda machine fail to mask a country in the midst of abject famine.

December 31, 2010 1:30 pm 1 Comment

No-one asked me to recommend my Books of the Year, but I’m going to tell you anyway! I've chosen four books on countries which I've reported from, blogs Lindsey Hilsum.

November 23, 2010 1:20 pm No Comments

An interesting article in today's Asia Times may throw some light on today's incident in the Yellow Sea off the two Koreas.

September 28, 2010 9:52 am No Comments

North Korea's dear leader Kim Jong-il promotes his son to role of general as experts predict a family sucession, writes Nick Paton Walsh.

September 21, 2010 9:21 am No Comments

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il is poised to name his son as his successor, but it is difficult to tell what is really going on as a result of the country's secretive regime, writes Nick Paton Walsh.

July 2, 2010 10:00 am No Comments

Readers with good memories may recall me writing about the amazing book by Barbara Demick, featuring real-life stories of defectors from North Korea. Last night it won The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction – Britain’s top award for non-fiction. As Barbara is in Beijing, I picked up the award on her behalf.

February 18, 2010 11:38 am 2 Comments

You may have missed the Dear Leader’s birthday earlier this week. They celebrated with synchronised swimmers performing to martial music and a festival of the kimjongilia, the flower named after North Korea’s “peerlessly brilliant commander”. On the day North Koreans were singing happy birthday to Kim Jong Il, I was chairing a discussion at the [...]

June 8, 2009 11:02 am No Comments

Two journalists from Current TV, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, have been sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labour camp. According to official news agency KCNA, North Korea’s highest Central Court convicted the pair of “committing hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry”. Our international editor, Lindsey Hilsum, blogged on the case [...]