North Korea
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The killing joke
NORTH KOREA: After the mysterious murder of North Korean royal family member Kim Jong-nam, two women go on trial. But are they criminal assassins or political pawns?
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La broma homicida
NORTH KOREA: Después del misterioso asesinato del miembro de la familia real norcoreana, Kim Jong-nam, dos mujeres van a juicio. ¿Pero son asesinas o peones políticos?
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Warriors of the wasteland
RECYCLING: The consumer-cultural detritus of the wealthy occident yields unexpected consequences in a very different part of the world.
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North Korea is ‘the biggest illegal job agency in the world’
NORTH KOREA: Why do UN sanctions fail to eradicate North Korea’s exploitative operations?
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The art of disruption in the world’s most closed regime
NORTH KOREA:Seven international artists travel to Pyongyang to participate in the hermit kingdom’s first arts symposium in a throughout provoking reminder how we are all products of cultural conditioning.
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Rock music as propaganda
Slovenian band Laibach could be seen as an ironic commentary to rock music’s affinity with fascism. It depends whether its audience made any reflections on this when the group held North Korea’s first ever rock concert – organised by Norwegian artist Morten Traavik.
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How we see North Korea
Tension escalates between North and South Korea after the torpedoing of a South Korean military ship in May. In North Korea, prison camps, murder, rape, gnawing starvation and freezing temperatures are all par for the course. How can the global community let such extreme oppression go on?
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The Red Chapel
Brügger and his travel companions deliver a ballsy theatrical spectacle in a regime of terror. In the opening scene of his latest documentary, "The Red Chapel", director Mads Brügger lies in bed in his North Korean hotel, dressed in robe and slippers and buried in a book by the Dear Leader, Dictator Kim Jung II.
