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• Beef and crystal meth: gifts for North Korean officials at harvest festival

  10 Sep 2014: Chuseok is an important thanksgiving holiday on the Korean Peninsula, but it is also a time when officials in the North expect lavish and illicit presents, writes DailyNK

• Should the world fund food aid to North Korea?

  10 Sep 2014: Pyongyang presses on with its nuclear programme and prestige projects while millions remain malnourished. Our expert panel asks whether donations are the best response
  

• I am a North Korean defector-turned-rapper: any questions for me?

  8 Sep 2014: Through hip-hop, Kang Chun-hyok raises awareness about conditions he escaped as a child. He has agreed to answer your questions about human rights, life as a defector and his music

• North Korea to try detained American Matthew Miller next week

  7 Sep 2014: No charges specified for 14 September trial of 24-year-old who tore up his passport and claimed asylum in Pyongyang in April

• North Korea to return South Korean man who had entered illegally

  5 Sep 2014: Kim Sang-geun came to North Korea after having unspecified difficulties living in the South

• How the media circus reported North Korea's pro-wrestling throwdown

  5 Sep 2014: When the isolated country hosted dozens of reporters, athletes and minor celebrities at its International Pro-Wrestling Contest in Pyongyang at the weekend, opinions on the experience were mixed to say the least. We took a look at the coverage

• Art in North Korea: Norwegians plan new creative academy in Pyongyang

  5 Sep 2014: Organisers want to take international artists to isolated country for two-week workshop that will see them work directly with North Koreans, under state supervision

• North Korea's suicide rate among worst in world, says WHO report

  4 Sep 2014:

  World Health Organisation study entitled Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative says 9,790 suicides took place there in 2012

• South Korea to create army unit with US in event of conflict with North

  4 Sep 2014: Mechanised unit led by US major general will be set up in first half of next year to prepare for any future war with North Korea

• North Korea has much to be admired, says Italy's Northern League leader

  3 Sep 2014: Right-wing politicians praise clean streets, sense of community and respect for elders after trip to Pyongyang

• The 10 most politically controversial TV shows of all time

  3 Sep 2014: As North Korea calls the upcoming Channel 4 drama Opposite Number ‘a slanderous farce’, Gabriel Tate looks at the most scandalous television in history

• Daily life in North Korea – in pictures

  2 Sep 2014: Some surprising snapshots of daily life in Pyonyang, North Korea, from AP photographer Wong Maye-E

• North Korea aims for political gold at Asian Games

  2 Sep 2014: Dozens of athletes are preparing to travel to South Korea to compete in the Asian Games as part of Pyongyang’s latest sports diplomacy push

• US calls for North Korea to free three detained Americans

  1 Sep 2014: State Department requests release of Jeffrey Fowle, Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae, whose health may be failing

• Americans detained in North Korea call on Washington to secure their release

  1 Sep 2014: Jeffrey Fowle, Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae appeal for help after Pyongyang grants trio foreign media access

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