If you didn’t catch Sunday’s media briefing on the Gupta report, you missed nothing. It was the usual bullshit smokescreen and blame-shifting game we’ve grown accustomed to. The ANC/Gupta mafia closes in on a media-free utopia.
Missing kids found a decade later – alive. Gupta drama is dividing ANC. North Korea chills out. Facebook joins Fortune 500. YouTube launching pay channels. Lauren Hill jailed. Film critics punish Great Gatsby. Harry let’s slip baby gender.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev discussed jihad with mother. Man arrested for biggest cyber attack in internet history. DA up to ‘mischief’ again. HIV cure breakthrough. US citizen on trial in NKorea. Obama jokes about his pot smoking days. ‘Stones play secret gig [Video].
Russian historian, Andrei Lankov lived in Pyongyang in the 1980’s, where he was an exchange student. His forthcoming book takes a look at how the government established a tight grip on the lives of everyday North Koreans. Take, for example, these anti-US questions cited by Lankov in a North Korean student textbook.
They reckon they have the Boston bomber. Armstrong 1999 tests had banned substances. ANC unveils plan to court ‘clever blacks.’ North Korea changing their tune. New microbatteries the key for electronics. 345k dead people on Zim voters’ roll.
This image of North Korean soldiers wearing massive platform heels was taken on Thursday while the “lady-guards” (who make up 10% of the North Korean army) patrolled the banks of the Yalu River.
More people returning new Blackberry, than buying. FW will be at Thatcher’s funeral. Justin Bieber makes $3.7m hawking debit card. Bitcoin halves in value. Ex-Pope about to pass away. Noth Korea woman-guards wearing high-heels.
Roger Shepard, a hiker from New Zealand has captured the one thing that still ties North and South Korea together, the Baekdu Daegan mountain range. Check out these incredible photos.
Former North Korean spy, Kim Hyun-hee gave unprecedented insight into the leadership regime of North Korea in an exclusive interview, early this week. As a spy operating for the North Korean regime, Hyun-hee blew up a civilian South Korean jet, killing all 115 passengers in 1987.
North Korean leader, Kim Jung-Un played an all American villain in a high school production, of Grease. And he looked totally awesome.
Early on Tuesday Japan, deployed missile-defence systems at three of their sites around Tokyo. The deployment follows North Korea’s threat to launch nuclear missiles, said Yoshihide Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan.
Facebook charging up to R150 to message celebs and non-friends. Mandela out of hospital. Obama apologises for ‘sexist’ comment. S Korea reckons N Korea will strike on Wednesday. Penis poster woman fined. Jay-Z and Beyonce in hot water over Cuba trip.
The global community watches with a growing level of unease as North Korea issued fresh threats on Thursday morning of nuclear war, saying “the moment of explosion is approaching fast.”
Trevor Manuel says government should stop blaming apartheid. NKorea says ‘moment of explosion’ is near. Norway schools reschedule exams to accommodate Justin Bieber. They’re making a catholic sex abuse film. Jay Leno replaced. 200 rhinos killed this year.
North Korea is blocking South Korean workers from passing through the joint industrial zone, Kaesong. This is a move by the North to further distance itself from the South ahead of possible war between the two states. Over 800 South Koreans were in the complex when the ban was announced. South Korean workers are being […]
If the threats weren’t enough to convince the US and South Korean armed forces to back down, we now have a video showing the crazy skills of the North Korean army. It is almost surreal to watch a human can move, shoot and live like the men and women in this video. The average leopard-crawling under barbed-wire military vibe […]
North Korea has been caught releasing doctored photographs of military personel heading into battle, by doubling the number of hovercrafts in a military exercise. North Korean military propaganda has been ratcheted up as tensions with South Korea reach breaking point. The picture above shows multiple vessels, but all have a distinctive shine on the front, with each […]
The United States believes that the collapse of the North Korean regime is far more likely to come to pass than a full scale attack by North Korea on either South Korea, or the USA. And that’s actually a slightly more terrifying scenario, because the tightly controlled regime would in all likelihood loose control of […]
According to a published report South Korean newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, North Korea ordered diplomats from a number of foreign embassies in North Korea to sell illegal drugs on the streets, or face expulsion. A defector who spoke to South Korean Intelligence said the diplomats were each sent out of North Korea with 20 kilograms of […]
Hana Lee is an 18 year old girl who fled her native North Korea on foot in 2000. Fleeing to China, Lee was on the run from North Korean authorities and unsympathetic Chinese officials for five years. Lee is currently living in Japan and attending a university there. Known as a “dappokusha,” meaning “person who has fled […]
North Korea is coming pretty close to dislodging Russia from their pole position as producers of pure YouTube awesomeness. The latest in a recent spate of North Korean propaganda videos that have made their way on to YouTube, this video shows starving Americans eating birds for lack of food, drinking coffee “made from snow”, and […]
Associated Press’ chief photographer in Asia, David Guttenfelder, has started posting pictures from inside Pyongyang to his Instagram account. The pictures show shots of daily life inside the capital of Pyongyang. The pictures range from the local bar food, to propaganda pictures lining the streets. I feel I can help open a window into a […]
North Korea has threatened the United States with a preemptive nuclear strike. Reports from the white house said these threats would only lead to further international isolation, also stating that they were “fully capable” of defending themselves against North Korea. North Korea’s latest direct threat is the most serious threat of nuclear war made by […]
Telegraph reports on UFO trends in SA. Dennis Rodman will broker peace. What Facebook’s new vibe means for marketers. Pistorius cop resigns.Bieber faints on stage. New species of spider found in SA. Berlusconi convicted. DiCaprio’s Nicholson impression.
Supreme leader spawns heir. Cardinals start discussing next pope. Moleskine diaries’ IPO. Harrison Ford Signs on for ‘Anchorman 2.’ Batman vigilante revealed. New Jimi Hendrix album. Kate Upton doppelgänger. Porsche recalls 5 500 Carreras globally.
Baby cured of HIV. Cardinal apologises for sexual vibes. Queen in hospital. Rodman tells Obama to call Kim Jong Un. Private spacecraft docks with ISS. Granddaughters launch Mandela wine in US. Pistorius bill R1miilion so far.
It’s taken long enough. Imagine never being able to tweet, Facebook or dare I say it… Instagram! I mean, why would you even eat? After being “out of the loop” for the better part of forever, North Korea has finally developed a 3G mobile network called Koryolink. But there’s a catch – the service is […]
North Korean women are being urged to choose one of the 18 approved hairstyles below, to do their bit for their country. The hairstyles have been approved by communist officials in an attempt to outlaw any western influences. It will also be easy to distinguish between married and unmarried women based on their hairstyles under […]
The all-seeing Google Earth camera has captured pictures of a nuclear test site in North Korea. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital vowed to conduct nuclear tests to even the score for United Nations sanctions against North Korea for their December rocket launch. Which would actually make the score uneven again. Tensions are high. If the […]
At first glance this coud be mistaken for a karaoke backing video. Alas, it’s North Korean propaganda using Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and “We Are the World” to show the U.S. under attack. Yes, we know. It’s too awesome. Of course, ‘We are the World’ was written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson. North Korea […]