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North Korea

Liam Neeson - Actor - 2024

“It’s a horrifying situation”: the 2016 Liam Neeson movie threatened by North Korea

Could have all gotten very messy indeed.

Tim Bradley
May 18, 2026
Damon Albarn - Gorillaz - 2021

Damon Albarn took his daughter on a family holiday to North Korea

Albarn went with his daughter.

Joe Taysom
Apr 22, 2026
A grave provocation the sci-fi movie that carried a five-year jail term in North Korea

“A grave provocation”: the sci-fi movie that carried a five-year jail term in North Korea

Watch at your own peril.

Scott Campbell
Apr 8, 2026
Seth Rogen - Actor - 2025

The movie Seth Rogen was convinced would ruin his career: “I was very worried”

This could have been the end.

Jacob Simmons
Jan 6, 2026
When Kim Jong-il abducted South Korean cinema’s biggest stars

Who was the director kidnapped and forced to make propaganda movies?

Stranger than stranger-than-fiction.

Scott Campbell
Feb 9, 2025
Raised on New Wave- exploring the bizarre music taste of Kim Jong-Un

What does North Korean music sound like?

Its influence is hard to trace.

Reuben Cross
Nov 14, 2024
Pulgasari - 1985 - Shin Sang-ok

‘Pulgasari’: the communist ‘Godzilla’ ripoff made by a kidnapped filmmaker

A ridiculous true story.

Emily Ruuskanen
Nov 8, 2024
Pyongyang - North Korea - 2020 - Thomas Evans

North Korea to open borders for tourists later this year

For the first time in nearly five years.

Ben Forrest
Aug 15, 2024
Raised on New Wave- exploring the bizarre music taste of Kim Jong-Un

Raised on New Wave: exploring the bizarre music taste of Kim Jong-Un

From his days studying in Europe.

Ben Forrest
Apr 4, 2024
When Kim Jong-il abducted South Korean cinema’s biggest stars

Kim Jong Il: The most unlikely of cinephiles

“A powerful ideological weapon for the revolution and construction.”

Thomas Coll
Mar 30, 2024
Titanic - James Cameron - Leonardo DiCaprio - Kate Winslet - Far Out Magazine

How ‘Titanic’ encouraged defections from North Korea

Unexpected ramifications from a box office behemoth.

Scott Campbell
Mar 3, 2024
When Kim Jong-il abducted South Korean cinema’s biggest stars

A brief journey through the world of North Korean propagandist cinema

Maintaining the regime through the power of film.

Thomas Coll
Feb 2, 2024

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