No, we are not talking about the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, or as the cool kids call it North Korea, but of the first kind of socialist state on the Korean Peninsula, and sadly the last thing vaguely resembling a unified Korea (aside from cheerleaders) To read about the North Korean cheerleaders click here….
September 9th 1948 is the official date of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, more commonly called North Korea. Before its official formation communist groups such as the Down-With-Imperialism-Union had been waging a struggle against imperialist forces in order to facilitate revolution. When the Japanese were eventually to surrender in Korea it…
A family in the northeastern Chinese city of Jinan has been left shocked after they found a dead bat hidden in a jar of oyster sauce that they had been using for cooking for nearly three months. The mother spotted the bat’s carcass when she was scooping the sauce out with a spoon while making…
A Chinese man was arrested on Hainan island located south of mainland China after he was caught on CCTV pushing his mentally disabled son into the ocean for a chance to stage an accident and claim insurance money. The 64 year- old father, known as Yang, reported to local authorities that his 38-year old son…
What was the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea? Being based in Cambodia has led us to learn a lot about the carnage that occurred during the rule of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot. This era gets explained in many different ways, but it can be summarized by the what they renamed the country, Democratic Kampuchea….
In the good old days of the cold war, it was relatively easy to pick your camp, the Capitalist West, or the Communist East, and of course, in both these camps, you had dissenters. Those fighting for freedom in the Eastern Bloc tend to be more well known, but it should be remembered that there…
As reported by USA Today, the Recording Industry Association of America has released a report confirming that in the first half of 2020 vinyl records outsold CD’s for the first time since the 1980s. While this may be surprising to some older folks who tossed their cumbersome record players when CDs became the leading format,…
Apart from a little pushing and shoving between France and Germany, the map of western Europe has looked pretty similar since the days of Napoleon. The border between Portugal and Spain is in fact the oldest frontier in Europe, dating back to the 1300s when the kings of both countries, who were cousins, tired of…