A book of photography offers an offbeat look at a little-seen city. At the beginning of “Pyongyang”, a song of 2015 by the British band Blur, Damon Albarn, the vocalist, sings...
Born in 1961, the British landscape architect, documentalist and writer Nicholas Bonner has lived over the past twenty years in Beijing, base from which he organizes cultural exchange programs with North Korea. His interest in the art of this country
Nocturnal luminosity is one of the few reliable sources of information about the country. It implies that North Korea’s economy is poorer, more volatile and more vulnerable to weather than formerly thought. Night lights are a strong proxy for economi
