How North Korean TV covered the summit – Monday
The summit was headline news across North Korean state media outlets on Monday morning, or more accurately it was Kim Jong Un’s departure from Pyongyang, his arrival in Singapore and…
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How North Korean TV covered the summit – Sunday
On the day that both Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump arrived in Singapore for talks that could change the course of the nation, North Korean state TV and the…
KCTV airing multi-part Chinese drama series
Korean Central Television is currently airing a 36-part drama series from Chinese state television in a departure from recent programming that has been almost exclusively domestic. The CCTV drama called…
How North Korean media covered the Inter-Korean summit
Many amazing sights unfolded at last week’s Inter-Korean Summit in Panmunjon, but one that struck me was the North and South Korean journalists that were running back and forth across…
Olympics notes: No coverage yet on KCTV
With the second full day of competition ended at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, North Korea’s KCTV has yet to feature any coverage. On Sunday, the broadcaster included several still…
What does Strava data tell us about North Korea?
Strava’s heat map of user activity has been raising some eyebrows for detailing movement of people around military bases, but what does it tell us about North Korea? As you…
Mystery North Korean radio broadcast highlights coded communications
A little after midnight, early on the morning of July 15, as most of the Korean peninsula slept, were North Korean spies up late listening to the radio? This was…
Korean Central TV output during the party congress (Updated)
Here’s an in depth look at the daily programming on Korean Central Television during the 7th Workers’ Party Congress.
Completed satellite command center revealed in TV images
North Korean TV recently broadcast the first video images of the activities surrounding the launch of the Kwangmyongsong 4 satellite. The images came in a 37-minute documentary called “경애하는 김정은동지의 령도밑에…
