Full Coverage: Inside North Korea
North Korea is one of the most secretive countries in the world. It is also one in which there is intense international interest--in part because Pyongyang has continued to develop and test nuclear weapons and long-range missiles in defiance of United Nations sanctions. The Los Angeles Times was one of several news organizations allowed to enter the country recently to cover the country’s first party congress in nearly four decades. Here’s what we found.
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Soaring more than 50 stories, the new blue-and-white skyscraper at the top of Future Science Street cuts a Jetsons-like form.
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After wrapping up its first Workers’ Party Congress since 1980, North Korea celebrated with a highly choreographed parade in Pyongyang on Tuesday morning, featuring military-themed floats and an appearance by leader Kim Jong Un, who waved to thousands of madly cheering citizens in the capital’s central square.
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To cheers of “long life!”
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North Korea has expelled a BBC journalist after deeming his reporting disrespectful to the government of Kim Jong Un.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced the nation’s first five-year economic plan in decades, saying the country must modernize but giving no indication that he was planning market-style reforms to jumpstart the moribund state-dominated economy.
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Journalists tour the Pyongyang 326 Electric Cable Factory that produces copper and aluminum wire.
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Is what I’m experiencing some real-life version of “Waiting for Godot”?
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Opening North Korea’s first ruling Workers’ Party Congress in 36 years, leader Kim Jong Un on Friday hailed the country’s recent hydrogen bomb test and satellite launch as “unprecedented” achievements that will lead the isolated and impoverished nation of 24 million to “final victory.”
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Two students chat outside the North Korea Party Congress.
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It looked like a farm: Cabbages were growing in neat rows in the dirt.
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