Kim Jong Il

Want to understand Kim Jong-il’s regime? A good place to start might be its cartoons, says Geoffrey Cain.

Thirty-one Kim Jong-ils and a peek into China’s new ‘capital of cool.’

The Dear Leader’s former chef reveals some sinful food choices.

Signs of a decaying North Korean regime are a reminder of allied failures, says Christian Whiton. Time to weaken it from within.

Was China’s threat of sanctions on US companies just bluster? A Foreign Ministry official says not.

There’s been a flurry of reports the past couple of weeks suggesting that North Korea is finally ready to return to the Six-party talks on its denuclearisation. According to the Korea Herald this ‘willingness’ to reconsider is based largely on the co

Expanding on my post earlier on North Korean art and its ‘cultural renaissance under Kim Jong-Il,’ -there also appears to be growing interest in DPRK art worldwide.  This summer a private collection of North Korean paintings was unveiled to

A new exhibition at Taipei’s National Palace Museum has optimists talking progress over Taiwan-China relations. Last year, China surpassed the US to become Taiwan’s second largest importer. But this major art collaboration goes beyond the merely prac

Living in Kemalist Turkey is instructive in how a country can nourish a Great Leader cult and still veer short of dictatorship.