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Kim Il-sung

A new multiple launch rocket system is test fired in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang March 4, 2016.

Some Americans are panicking about North Korea. Here’s why South Koreans aren’t.

Conflict

Saturday is a big day in North Korea: The 105th anniversary of the birth of the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung. It’s thought that North Korea will conduct a nuclear or missile test to mark the occasion. But South Koreans aren’t that worried.

North Korean defectors living in Seoul, South Korea sing a hymn during a prayer service for peace and reunification of the divided Korean Peninsula in April 2013.

Repressive, atheist North Korea has a surprising relationship with Christian missionaries

Belief
Saint-Martin Paris Metro Station

Come inside some of the world’s abandoned subway stations

Global Scan

As North Korea mourns, leaders try to tie Kim Jong-un to his grandfather

On the Ground in South Korea

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Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Overtures Toward North Korea

Arts, Culture & Media

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose followers are known as “Moonies,” was a controversial religious leader who proclaimed to be the Messiah. He met with many world leaders during his life, including North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung.

Top of the Hour: North Korea’s “Highly Provocative” Announcement, Morning Headlines

The U.S. State Department was seemingly taken by surprise by North Korea’s announcement that the country is working to launch a satellite in honor of President Kim Il-sung’s 100th birth anniversary. The U.S. is calling the move “highly provocative,” as North Korea recently agreed to suspend long-range missile launches in exchange for food assistance.

North Koreans Mourn Kim Jong-il

North Korean state television broadcast images on Tuesday of Kim Jong-un, the country’s presumptive new leader, and senior government officials visiting the body of dictator Kim Jong-il, who died Saturday of at heart attack at age 69. Kim Jong-il’s death is only the second time in North Korea’s 80 year history that leadership has changed. […]

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