In the latest of a series of moves that have seemed to herald a new, more liberal trajectory for North Korea, Dictator Kim Jong-Un has announced that he’s to invite the Pope to visit the […]
America First At The United Nations
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London fresher commutes from North Korea
You might think that the half an hour walk to the lecture hall or a twenty minute bus ride in is pretty bad, but it could be worse. You could be living in North Korea. […]
Campus Watch: Kim Jong Un’s nephew refuses Oxford place fearing assassination by his own uncle
The nephew of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has refused a place at an Oxford college fearing assassination by his uncle’s hitmen, it has been claimed. It seems that the allure of the prestigious […]
Otto Warmbier: a man stranded in the gap between morality and legality
Let us get one thing out of the way, here at the start: Otto Warmbier, the US student who stole a propaganda poster from a North Korean hotel, is guilty of the crime with which […]
Meet Joo-il Kim: The Man Defying Pyongyang
The Gryphon speaks to Joo-il Kim, a prominent member of the North Korean community in New Malden, about the challenges he has faced under the North Korean regime and as a refugee here in England […]
The Western view of North Korea
North Korea has one of the strangest relationships with the West in modern political times. In an average year we will fluctuate between mass hysteria over the country’s active nuclear weapons programme to mocking Kim […]