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Ana Lily Amirpour: ‘I’m not just a female filmmaker – I’m a weirdo artist’

As her long-awaited new sci-fi comedy Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon hits the UK, the director tells us about its inspirations, her high school experiences and how she feels about her projects being described as “female-led”

Sep 29, 2022

Nick Chen

Kim Jong-un bans leather coats to stop citizens stealing his drip

Police are cracking down on an ‘impure trend’ of imitating the North Korean leader, following the country’s ban on mullets and skinny jeans

Nov 28, 2021

Thom Waite

A North Korean man who smuggled copies of Squid Game is sentenced to death

Students who watched the Netflix series on illegal flash drives are also reportedly facing jail time

Nov 25, 2021

Thom Waite

Kim Jong-un calls K-pop a ‘vicious cancer’

Kim Jong-un thinks K-pop is a ‘vicious cancer’

It would make North Korea ‘crumble like a damp wall’, according to its state media

Jun 14, 2021

Felicity Martin

Kim Jong-un meets Donald Trump, Vietnam, 2019

Kim Jong-un cracks down on ‘decadent’ fashion: mullets and skinny jeans

North Korea’s new rules aim to curb the ‘exotic and decadent’ influence of capitalist culture

May 22, 2021

Thom Waite

Beauty

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Is Kim Jong-un the new face of South Korean beauty?

Face masks featuring North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on the packaging have predictably caused uproar in South Korea

Beauty

Dec 12, 2018

Anya Angert

Grimes is back with new single ‘We Appreciate Power’

The artist gives us the first taste of her fifth album with a HANA-featuring new song, written from the perspective of a girl group spreading pro-AI propaganda

Nov 29, 2018

Selim Bulut

Speaking to three artists who escaped from North Korea

Choi Sung-gook, Sun Mu, and Kang Nara discuss how they defected from the DPRK and the reasons why they left everything behind

Jun 28, 2018

Joanna Hong

Inside the making of North Korea’s first girl power movie

Talking to the makers of ‘Comrade Kim Goes Flying’, one of the country’s most popular movies, and the first collaboration between the Hermit Kingdom and the West

Jun 12, 2018

Barclay Bram

The artist painting beautiful, raunchy stories about queer life

Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s canvasses provide a space for healing and expression

Apr 26, 2018

Miss Rosen

Kim Jong-un watches K-pop stars perform in North Korea

The Hermit Kingdom leader was seen to be enjoying himself

Apr 01, 2018

Anna Cafolla

North Korea to host first K-pop shows since 2005

South Korea is sending a delegation of musicians including Red Velvet across the border

Mar 21, 2018

Emily Dinsdale

Science & Tech

A beauty app has just been launched in North Korea

It’s the first of its kind in the hermit kingdom

Science & Tech

Jan 18, 2018

Anna Cafolla

North Korea sends pop star to talks with South Korea

Hyon Song Wol, a member of a girl group whose members were picked by Kim Jong-un, appeared as a delegate at talks over North Korea’s participation in this year’s Winter Olympics