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Glorious Leader video game plots North Korean tale
An Atlanta-based start-up game studio has set North Korea as the ambitious target of its first video game. Moneyhorse Games revealed some demonstration gameplay video and screenshots from the game, “Glorious Leader,” earlier this week. It’s due out towards the end of 2014 and will be available on Android and possibly other platforms, according to Jeff…
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Pyongyang through Google Glass
North Korea got what might have been its first look at Google Glass in April. That’s when Kenny Zhu went on a four-day trip and recorded various video and photo scenes with the high-tech pair of glasses. Zhu later supplied some of the pictures and video to CNN through its iReport website. CNN said Zhu visited the…
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Review: The North Korea travel app
Whether you’re heading to Pyongyang on an organized tour or fancy a spot of armchair North Korean travel, there’s now an app for that. Last week, London-based Uniquely Travel launched what it calls the “ultimate travel guide” to the DPRK. The app, available for iOS and Android, contains details on just over 350 items of interest…
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North again denies involvement with drones
North Korea strongly denied again on Sunday having anything to do with unmanned aircraft discovered crashed on the South Korean side of the inter-Korean border. Last week, the South Korean government said it had concluded an investigation into the incident and concluded the three drones were launched from North Korea. Among its evidence, Seoul said…
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NASA captures fires burning across North Korea
NASA’s Aqua satellite has captured a stunning image showing a number of large fires burning across North Korea earlier this week. The image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, clearly shows large plumes of smoke from the fires, which are concentrated across the east and central parts of the…
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YouTube terminates most popular North Korean channel
The most popular North Korea-related YouTube channel was deleted by the video website on Wednesday for copyright infringement. [April 26 update: The channel is now back. Read on for details of how that happened] The Stimme Koreas channel had amassed around 15 million views for the hundreds of videos it hosted, ranking it above second-placed North…
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Chinese retailer denies involvement with drones found in South Korea
A Beijing-based drone retailer has denied having anything to do with two drones that were recently discovered in South Korea near the country’s border with the north. The company, China TranComm Technologies, sells the Sky-09P drone, which in images appears very similar to the drones that crashed in South Korea. The similarity between the drones found…
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More on the Chinese Sky-09 drone
More photos have emerged of the Chinese Sky-09P drone that appears similar to at least one of the drones that was discovered crashed in South Korea. The new photos provide a clearer view of the underside of the drone and the slingshot launching system. The photos are published on the website of China Trancomm Technologies, a Beijing-based…
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North Korea’s drones: Made in China?
A drone recovered by South Korea that the country suspects was on a spying mission from the north bears a close resemblance to one produced by a Chinese aerospace company. The drone was one of several discovered in the last month close to the inter-Korean border. The stubby craft was painted sky blue with a few…
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US State Dept. puts out call for North Korea projects
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) put out a call Tuesday for projects aimed at human rights and democracy in North Korea. DRL will fund winning proposals with grants of up to $350,000 per organization and groups have until May 13, 2014, to complete and submit their proposals. Proposals can cover…
