The success of North Korean movie “Days and Nights” suggests that cinematic taboos in the nation’s state-controlled ...

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS WAS SHOWN IN NORTH KOREA?! 🤯🇰🇵 A new North Korean film is turning heads for being a bit... bold.

Relatives hope move will raise awareness about the seven martyrs — six of whom were slain by North Korean troops ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Ever since Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, began his diplomatic outreach this spring, meeting the presidents of China and South Korea, North Korea has used it to glorify him ...

Pulitzer Prize work of fiction that despite a rather far-fetched plot really “operationalizes” and brings to life the social system described by Robert Collins work on Songbun. Probably one of the ...

LOS ANGELES — You likely won’t hear about it on the festival circuit, but one of the most exclusive international venues can be found in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The Pyongyang ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Nov 07, 2025, 08:18am EST A North Korean defector makes new ...

Danish director Frederik Sølberg’s “Hana Korea” emerged as a crowd favorite at this year’s Busan International Film Festival, taking home the Flash Forward competition audience award for its nuanced ...

Graphic violence, partial nudity, and a suicide bomb plot mark a dramatic change in the country’s tightly controlled film industry.