North Korea
North Korea Has a Friend in Dennis Rodman and VICE
Earlier today former Chicago Bulls superstar Dennis Rodman presided over a mixed-match basketball game in Pyongyang alongside Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. The teams consisted of VICE correspondent Ryan Duffy, three Harlem Globetrotters, and North Korea...
North Korea's First Racing Video Game Is Terrible
North Korea has been in the news lately for a very scary reason, but it isn’t every day that Asia’s hermit kingdom releases a car-racing video game. And when they do, you can definitely expect it to be a boring simulation about driving down a pin...
North Korea's Nuclear Warhead Is Reportedly Lighter and More Powerful
North Korea has been on a bit of an aggressive bent lately, and the country just pushed things to a new level by reportedly conducting its third nuclear test. Pyongyang has been expected to conduct a test to follow up on its previous tests in 2006 and...
They Weren't Joking, North Korea Tested Another Nuclear Bomb
While you were sleeping, North Korea was causing a small earthquake on the Korean peninsula. After a gradual buildup over the past few weeks that's seen domestic media in the socialist state saturated with missile-themed iconography, and timed just a...
Would You Eat a Family Member to Survive?
With stories of starving rural families killing and eating their own children to survive coming out of North Korea over the last couple of weeks, we began to argue over whether it was OK to eat your parents. To answer the question definitely, we asked...
I Dare North Korea to Nuke America
It's never nice when underage dictators point their nuclear arsenal at you willy-nilly, but try not to panic too much. I don't think North Korea is going to blow up America just yet, or that deep down Kim Jong Un even wants to.
North Korea Smokes Weed Every Day, Explaining a Lot
North Korea, the most tight-lipped, conservative, and controlling country in the world is also a weed-smoker’s paradise. Despite the government’s deadly serious stance on the use and distribution of hard drugs like crystal meth (which has a notorious...
North Korea Is Frighteningly Boring
Last November, Maxime Delvaux went to North Korea, which isn't easy for a photographer. He entered as a tourist and was given a permanent guide and driver. Like many visitors to the hermit kingdom, he was only allowed to see approved sites. The...
Global Fear League 2013
It's time yet again for our annual Global Fear League, your guide to which countries will be held up by our media as bastions of terror this year—the year the world finally gives in and surrenders itself to the delicious prospect of all-out war.
North Korea Is Open for Business (Sort Of)
Yesterday Kim Jong Un, now the world's youngest leader, broke the silent tradition of his reclusive father and made a New Year's speech to the people of North Korea, filling them in on his plans for a totally awesome 2013. It was the first time the...
Me and My North Korean Minder, Ms. Song
“Gunfire and the sounds of revolutionary struggle were his lullaby,” proclaimed the beautiful Ms. Song (not her real name). She was one of the official monitors assigned to accompany me throughout my stay in North Korea. The government selects only the...
What's the Scariest Country in the World?
Last week's news that North Korea is planning on shooting a rocket into the sky—in an attempt to put a satellite into orbit—has left a lot of people freaked out. All of this made us wonder, "What's the scariest country in the world?"