Blaine Harden

No Kum Sok, age 3, wearsing a pith helmet, with his father, No Zae Hiub (right), an all-star pitcher for his company’s baseball team, in Sinhung, Korea, in 1935.

This Florida man escaped from North Korea in a MiG-15 fighter jet

March 13, 2015Books

The first time he saw North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in person, No Kum Sok decided he better start pretending to be a good Communist. Then he started plotting his escape from North Korea, which he managed to pull off in a Soviet-made fighter jet.

North Korea’s angry rhetoric better viewed with understanding, than comedy

August 15, 2013Global Politics