North Korea

Magazine articles on politics and society in North Korea.

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TIME Asia September 4, 2008 Mark L. Clifford	Under a Mushroom Cloud Kim Jong Il has not only survived, but emerged in the twilight of the Bush era with an agreement eerily similar to the one he signed with Bill Clinton over a decade earlier, makes for a remarkable tale.
TIME Asia May 1, 2008 Bill Powell	The Road to Damascus The Bush Administration's latest strategy to get North Korea to stand down its nuclear program involves trying to shame the country into complying with its commitments.
TIME Asia April 10, 2008 Michael Schuman	No Mr. Sunshine Lee Myung Bak, 66, the newly inaugurated President of South Korea, says he wants closer ties with Washington, and has vowed to take a tougher line toward his uncooperative Northern neighbor, in stark contrast to the "Sunshine Policy" Seoul has pursued for the past 10 years.
TIME Asia February 28, 2008 Bill Powell	The Ballad Of Kim Jong Il The New York Philharmonic Orchestra played a historic concert in North Korea. A look at some of the highlights of the momentous trip to Kim Jong Il's hermit kingdom.
TIME Asia January 9, 2008 Bill Powell	Prying Open Pyongyang Since February 2007, when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il struck a deal with the U.S., there has been a burst of cooperation between the two Koreas.
Reason November 2007 Michael C. Moynihan	Bad Air Kim Jong-Il has imposed a harsh public smoking ban in the hermit kingdom to shield "Dear Leader" from the effects of secondhand smoke.
TIME Asia October 4, 2007 Peter Ritter	Crossing the Line Between North and South Korea Hope springs eternal on the Korean peninsula. But so, alas, does futility. The road ahead to the potential reunification of North and South is long, and far from smooth.
TIME Asia September 20, 2007 Peter Ritter	The World's Most Dangerous Investment In spite of the depressing circumstances, North Korea continues to receive commercial support from neighboring countries, which hold out hope that Kim's hostile kingdom can be enlightened through greater integration with the global economy.
TIME Asia July 12, 2007 Powell & Zagorin	North Korea: The Sopranos State In North Korea, Bureau 39 houses a shadowy directorate that oversees illicit enterprises ranging from drug trafficking to money laundering.
TIME Asia June 28, 2007 Bill Powell	Prodding Pyongyang On June 21, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, the U.S.'s lead negotiator in the six-party talks aimed at getting North Korea to give up its nukes, showed up in Pyongyang unexpectedly, and this time the purpose was not confrontation but conciliation.
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