North Korea

  • LifestyleYahoo Lifestyle Singapore

    More Singaporeans interested in travel to North Korea after Trump-Kim summit

    In the wake of the historic Trump-Kim summit, there has been increased interest among Singaporeans in traveling to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

  • EntertainmentYahoo Lifestyle Singapore

    Trump-Kim summit: Singapore bar creates ‘peace’ cocktail drinks

    Denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula? Lifting of trade sanctions against North Korea? Negotiating an end to the 1950-1953 Korean War? You can mimic the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit in Singapore by discussing these geopolitical issues while savouring two “peace summit cocktails” specially created by a local bistro bar to mark the historical event on 12 June.

  • NewsYahoo Lifestyle Singapore

    Singaporean wrestler's company probed over North Korea link

    A company owned by Singaporean wrestler Andruew Tang You Liang is under investigation by the Singapore government for providing oil to North Korea. According to media reports, 10 entities and six individuals have been slapped with sanctions by the US Treasury Department on Tuesday (22 August). The act was “in response to North Korea’s ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction, violations of the United Nation Security Council Resolutions and attempted evasion of US sanctions”.

  • NewsThe Wrap

    Dennis Rodman Defends North Korea, Takes Credit for Otto Warmbier’s Release

    Rodman said he didn’t meet with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Un, during his most recent visit, but considered him a friend and has spent time with him in the past. Meanwhile, Rodman and his agent feel they are partially responsible for the North Korea’s release of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died last Monday, just days after being medically evacuated from a North Korean prison on the day the former NBA star arrived. Strahan pushed back, saying Warmer was in perfect health bef

  • NewsJordan Zakarin

    Sundance Report: North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-il's Evil Plans to Make Movies Was Even Crazier Than 'The Interview'

    There was only one problem: He was a hostage of the brutal North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. Just over a year after the uproar over The Interview, Seth Rogen’s goofy satire about foreigners infiltrating the North Korean dictatorship, a new documentary that premiered at Sundance tells the very real story of two people who survived an even closer encounter in Pyongyang. The saga of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee, also recently detailed in a book by Paul Fischer, is brought to life in The Lovers an

  • NewsNora Crotty

    North Korea’s Secret Pastel Interiors Look Like a Wes Anderson Movie

    To most of the world, North Korea is a mystery. The country is so isolated that it’s been nicknamed the “Hermit Kingdom,” with insiders and outsider knowing extremely little about the other’s daily lives.  But one photo diary, created by London architecture critic Oliver Wainwright, is changing that. Wainwright was able to visit Pyongyang, the capital city of the Juche State, on a guided tour this past summer, photographing its strikingly symmetrical, pastel interiors along the way.

  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    'Argo,' 'Atonement,' and James Bond: Inside North Koreans' Movie Favorites

    Given Kim Jong Un’s outrage over The Interview,  it would seem that North Korea is no fan of Hollywood. The late Kim Jong Il, father of the current dictator, loved Elizabeth Taylor, was reportedly a huge fan of The Godfather, and boasted that he’d seen every Oscar-winning film in history.