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  1. The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
  2. Call for more international support for exile radios after station director wins award
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders congratulates Kim Seong-Min, founder and director of the Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio, on winning the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy#s Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award.
  3. Endless Atrocities: The US Role In Creating The North Korean Fortress-State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    An overview of the history that informs North Korea's relations with the United States and "drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat".
  4. Escape from Camp 14
    The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
  5. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
  6. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
  7. Here's what war with North Korea would look like
    A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.
  8. Humanity Imperiled: The Path To Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
  9. If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly Legal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Michigan attorney Kary Love explores the legal basis for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea by the USA.
  10. International Crisis Group
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  11. Let Us Achieve National Reunification and World Peace Through Struggle
    Speech at the Pyonguang Mass Meeting to Welcome the Party and Government Delegation of the Bulgarian People's Republic, October 28, 1973

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  12. Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
  13. North Korea: Canada’s First Test of Its Feminist Foreign Policy
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    With the spectre of North Korea aiming long-range nuclear-tipped missiles at its neighbor the United States, never has the time been more right for Canada to be re-embracing global diplomacy. In January, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia
  14. North Korea: Two American journalists face up to 10 years in labour camps
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders urges the North Korean authorities not to go ahead with their announced intention to try two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, on charges of entering the country illegally and carrying out â#ohostile" activities
  15. Official Enemies
    Introduction to the August 27, 2017 issue of Other Voices

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    We are never left in any doubt about who our enemies are. The word goes out from the United States that a certain country is a dictatorship which abuses human rights, supports terrorism, and poses a terrible threat to the U.S. and to the world. The mainstream media then swing into action with military precision and flood us with stories, images, and commentary about how dreadful country 'X' is.
  16. On Creating Revolutionary Literature and Art
    Speech to Workers in the Field of Literature and Art, November 7, 1964

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  17. On the Victory of Socialist Agricultural Co-Operativisation & the Future Development of Agriculture in our Country
    Report to the National Congress of Agricultural Co-operatives, January 5, 1959

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  18. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
    Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
  19. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
    Resisting Injustice

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
  20. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
  21. Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
  22. Sentence Against US Journalists in North Korea is Inhumane and Unjust, Says IFJ
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called for the immediate release of the two United States journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who have been jailed by North Korea.
  23. Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in our Country
    Adopted at the Eighth Plenary Meeting of the Fourth Central Committiee of the Workers' Party of Korea, February 25, 1964

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  24. Under The Banner of The Great Juche Idea of Comrage Kim Il Sung
    On The 60th Anniversary of Birth of Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  25. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
  26. The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
  27. VOW Demands Peaceful Resolution for the Crisis in North Korea
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Re: Worsening humanitarian and human rights impacts of UN sanctions on the DPRK. To Honourable Members of UN 1718 Sanctions Committee (DPRK). This letter comes to you from the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) and
  28. What Corporate Media Never Tells You about North Korea
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    There is a great deal of propaganda and deliberate misinformation about North Korea, which the public should know. While neocons, a cheering corporate media, and Deep State, rush to war with North Korea, information is the ultimate weapon. For example, did you know that North Korea, China, and India, are the only three nations who have committed to a "no nuclear first" policy.
  29. Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
    Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
  30. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

Experts on North Korea in the Sources Directory

  1. International Crisis Group
  2. United Nations

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