Published by CapX (26th April, 2017) The spring sun shone and cherry blossom fluttered down to the delight of locals as I sauntered through Namsan Park, a beautifully-kept […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
North Korea’s idea of Britain? David Beckham and The Queen
Published by The Spectator (20 April, 2017) Korean Notebook When I arrived in Seoul, I joked to my editor that I hoped this was not going to be […]
North Korea / South Korea / United States / World
I fear for the future when the world’s fate hangs on these two mavericks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) Outside my window in one of the world’s most advanced cities, I can hear protesters chanting angrily against ‘Crazy […]
North Korea / World
Thousands slaughtered at nuclear test site
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) A North Korean defector claims thousands of political prisoners have been slaughtered as the country tests nuclear weapons. Kang […]
North Korea / South Korea / United States / World
Revealed: Kim’s plan to kidnap tourists
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) North Korea has been secretly training elite special forces to kidnap Westerners from South Korea and hold them hostage […]
China / North Korea / South Korea / United States / World
So could North Korea’s cruel regime be next on the hit list?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th April, 2017) When Donald Trump sat down to dinner with China’s Xi Jinping in his garish golden palace of Mar-a-Lago in Florida […]
China / North Korea / United States / World
Donald Trump’s shock tactics on North Korea might just work
Published by The Guardian (3rd April, 2017) Song Byeok used to paint propaganda pictures for North Korea’s dictators. But when famine struck, his family was starving like millions […]
North Korea / World
The chilling rationality of North Korea’s vile regime
Published by The i paper (27th February, 2017) The murder of Kim Jong-nam was brutal and brazen, caught by security cameras as assassins attacked him with lethal toxins […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
Kim’s kill list and ‘Enemy Zero’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th February, 2017) The announcement on North Korean state radio could not have been more blood curdling. They decreed that Park Sang-hak, a fugitive from Kim […]
North Korea / South Korea / World
‘How could our country lie to us so completely?’
Published by The Guardian (27th August, 2016) One day, when he was 25 years old, Park Sang-hak was strolling around a huge square in the North Korean port […]
North Korea / World
North Korea is treated like a joke – but the realities are deadly serious
Published in The Guardian (October 29th, 2013) Kim Song-ju sought to escape the living hell of North Korea, but after crossing a freezing river into China was returned, […]
North Korea / World
Breaking Bad in North Korea
Published in the Mail on Sunday (September 22nd, 2013) A small army of women, identical in long yellow dresses and clutching golden fans, enter the vast stadium to […]