A lot of history documentaries and commentaries discuss how the Soviet Union rolled into Korea after World War 2. One of the questions I asked myself today was, what made them decide to occupy Korea in the first place?
From Dae Sook Suh’s fantastic book on Kim Il Sung, the partisan activities of the anti-Japanese guerrilla fighting days is fundamental in …

(Hat tip: Hapo) As shown in in the old postcards from 1959, I guess it is a good time to show some happy, smiling faces near the same time. I think 1958 is close enough. Here is a video where Kim Il Sung and Mao visit:

This YouTube channel has a lot of other footage that is pretty difficult to find, …

Here is something I did not really know about: Communism with a human face. I did some digging around to see what this was all about. While some may know all about this, I was kind of surprised and interested in reading more about it.
Any further insight and information from readers would be fantastic.
Since this is for my own research, …

(Hat Tip: Hapo) This is a very interesting story on CNN regarding a developer who ran into a long abandoned apartment building complete with relics of the past.
The discovery, made by architect Mark Aretz, revealed a small one-bedroom apartment evidently abandoned quickly by its occupants as the Communist East German state disintegrated in 1989, Spiegel Online reported.
A wall calendar showed …

(Hat tip: Saku)

I recieved an interesting E-Mail about older North Korean pictures. The book is called North Korea Caught in Time: Images of War and Reconstruction, and you can buy the book here.
I am kind of disappointed there are no “teaser” pictures to show here, but all the same, I suppose the book is well worth the money because older pictures are …