Architectural photographer Dieter Leistner was born the same year East Germany began construction on the Berlin Wall. He was 37 when it fell. Maybe that's why his interest in North and South Korea feels so personal—he spent forty years in another divided country. Read More >>

President Obama met with South Korea's President Park Geun-hye at the White House this past Tuesday, and as major world leaders are wont to do in each others' presence, handshakes abounded. This three-handed, two-roomed, Photoshop monstrosity was not one of them. Read More >>

When North Korea isn't busy shooting missiles into the sea or photoshopping its navy to make it look a little less pathetic, it takes to a very global hobby: torrenting. TorrentFreak took a peek into exactly what the would-be-supervillian nation-state likes to pirate and, well, they've got to get their surveillance software somewhere. Read More >>

A team of hackers appears to have broken into North Korea's official, government-run Twitter and Flickr accounts. Evidence left on the sites suggests that the hacks on the social media accounts were carried out by Anonymous activists. Read More >>

After its third nuclear test in February drew a harsh rebuke from the international community and further tightened economic sanctions against the Hermit Kingdom, North Korea has once again doubled down on its nuclear rhetoric. The country also announced that it will soon restart the Yongbyon reactor, Pyongyang's primary plutonium processing plant. Read More >>

Some, one, or all of the members of the Anonymous hacking collective have launched an astonishing new offensive, demanding North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons programme and grants its people full internet access, or face the wrath of the angry nerds as part of Operation Free Korea. Read More >>

By now you may think that North Korea is only good for nuclear bluster and general insanity. But! Beneath that strange veneer lies actual technology, architecture, and design. Read More >>

According to Reuters, North Korea has readied its rockets to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific Ocean after the US made a show of force by flying stealth bombers over South Korea. Kim Jong Un had apparently signed off an order for North Korea's rockets to be "on standby for fire". Read More >>

There's nothing like a little Photoshop touch-up to make your navy look like more toned, suppled, and fearsome than it ever really could be. First Iran used a little editing magic to put its jets "in the air" and now North Korea is getting in on the fun as well. A recent glamour shot of the nation's recent hovercraft exercise shows a couple of its models looking suspiciously similar. Read More >>

The Pirate Bay may have found a new way to keep its servers up and running amidst increasing adversity from European governments and copyright groups. North Korea to the rescue! Except, you know, it's probably a hoax. Read More >>

Kim Jong Un's hip, young reign over North Korea continues today as the mobile operator Koryolink officially turns on its data services, opening the gate to Instagram, Foursquare, and Twitter, among other social apps. Read More >>

This morning, North Korea unexpectedly decided to test a nuclear bomb without the common courtesy of telling anybody first. But it's just the latest in a long line of terrifying and crazy things that the country gets up to. Read More >>

This isn't good. North Korea has reportedly conducted a nuclear test. Unusual seismic activity in the region was detected that indicated a nuclear bomb, and South Korea has told a United Nations Security Council diplomat that North Korea has just performed a nuclear test. Read More >>

North Korea loves posting propaganda videos to YouTube, both to showcase their 2001 CGI skills and to buoy morale in the factories. Their latest creation rips off cut-scenes from Call of Duty and some god-awful CGI to show a young boy, Canon camera in hand, flying into space and then bombing the hell outta New York, all set to a hilarious piano cover of MJ's We Are The World. Read More >>

HTC's quarterly profits are in, and it's bad news all round -- a 91 per cent slump. All that could be about to change, though, as HTC's just received the celebrity endorsement every smartphone manufacturer dreams of. Yes, an HTC phone is the go-to device of the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Sexiest Man of the Year and all-round badass horse-rider, Kim Jong-un. Read More >>