Kim Jong-il
Bosintang: North Korea's 'healthy' dog soup
Halal or not, it seems that puppy is the prize meat on the menu. Dictator Kim Jong-il knew this before his death on 17 December 2011: dog soup is good for your health, your dictatorship and international relations
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Mubarak, Ben Ali, Gaddafi...where do dictators go?
They strut about like demigods, surrounded by servants and members of their armed forces, with luxury cars, mistresses and red carpets. They climb to power like hungry leeches with no qualms about lying or destroying anyone that stands in their way. But it only takes a couple of weeks for this to change, though others do end their days as revered leaders. A brief synopsis of dictators and their destinies
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Five questions about the Korean conflict
On 23 November North Korea turned the heat up with the first attack on South Korea civilians since the end of the war in 1953. There were four casualties on Yeonpyeong Island. Spanish journalist Alberto Lebrón explains why diplomacy is working with the weapons loaded
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Pyongyang: much ado about nothing?
Two months after North Korea's first nuclear bomb test, and six-party discussions resumed after a thirteen-month silence. Is there anything left to negotiate?
‘The North Korean regime annuls individuality. I immortalised that’
Pierpaolo Koss exclusively reveals what it is like to be one of the few Western artists to have worked in one of the world’s most isolated countries
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Europe’s inertia in the Korean crisis
North Korea is proposing to suspend its nuclear programme. This is an opportunity for the EU to finally participate in the negotiations.
