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• 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
  

• 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

• 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

• Kim Jong-un's banker defects in Russia, say reports

  29 Aug 2014: Yun Tae-hyong, a senior official at Korea Daesong Bank, vanished last week in Nakhodka with $5m, claims newspaper

• Like grandfather, like grandson: North Korea's doppelganger leaders – in pictures

  27 Aug 2014: From his laugh to his hairstyle, Kim Jong-un has been emulating his late grandfather Kim Il-sung in an apparent attempt to project ‘power and gravitas’

• When North Korea attacks: can you match the insult to the person?

  Quiz, 21 Aug 2014:

  The DPRK have launched a scathing personal attack on US secretary of state John Kerry describing him as a wolf with a 'hideous lantern jaw', a move reported to be an attempt to stir anti-american sentiment. As it's not the first tirade to emerge from the country, we rounded up a few previous outbursts. Can you guess who they were about?

• The North Korea film poster challenge

  15 Aug 2014: What is the film you’d most like to watch about the secret state? Sketch out a plot, design the poster and share your efforts with GuardianWitness
  

• North Koreans 'forced to pay metal tax for Kim statues'

  14 Aug 2014: Residents of northern border city Sunuiju say they were made to donate copper to a loyalty fund used to construct new monuments of the country’s late leaders. DailyNK reports

• Kim Jong-un face-melting may be wiped from Seth Rogen's The Interview

  14 Aug 2014:

  Studio Sony considers removing a scene in which Kim Jong-un's face is melted from comedy about a Hollywood star's attempt to assassinate the North Korean leader

• North Korea to publish human rights report promising 'rosy future'

  11 Aug 2014: Report counters claims of crimes against humanity made in report by UN earlier this year

• North Korea relaxes fashion rules in 'sign of progress'

  4 Aug 2014: As Asian trends hit the streets of conservative Pyongyang, analysts suggest it is part of Kim Jong-un’s plan to appear modern and progressive. Daily NK reports

• Americans facing trial in North Korea call on US to help secure their release

  1 Aug 2014: Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle are accused of committing ‘anti-state’ crimes in the secretive country

• Viral Video Chart: Kim Jong-un, Weird Al and sperm whales

  25 Jul 2014: Kim Jong-un breakdances with Obama, Weird Al sings about word crimes and a couple make the mistake of trying to kayak over a sperm whale

• North and South Korea: can Seoul's plans for reunification work?

  18 Jul 2014: Despite the monumental challenges involved in piecing the Korean peninsula back together, South Korea's president continues to push it as a key policy goal

• From English lessons to Cambridge scholarships: UK spends £700,000 on North Korea programmes

  11 Jul 2014: Foreign Office releases breakdown of spending on projects related to North Korea since 2011, including more than £95,000 on hosting Pyongyang officials in UK. North Korea Tech reports

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