Kim Jong Il news, opinion and analysis

Hyeonseo Lee: Escape, exile and why she misses North Korea

A high-profile North Korean defector’s surprising revelations about life in the Hermit Kingdom

North Korea’s odd movie history explains a lot about its fury over The Interview

Danielle Smith’s offal tweet, Fidel Castro reappears (it seems), and Roberto Luongo a Leaf?

Too bad North Koreans celebrated on the wrong date

Kim Jong Il’s death may allow Koreans to stir from the nightmare, but it won’t end it

To the West, the North Korean dictator was mostly a collection of stereotypes in a puppet movie

Sheila Copps stages a comeback, Glenn Beck hits a new low, and Britain’s Royal Rebel says ‘I do’

North Korea’s prison camps are larger and more brutal than previously believed

The fatheads who resent the war on fat, plus Quebec announces a new anti-corruption unit

Arnold Schwarzenegger has advice for Russia, Naomi Campbell’s unwitting good deed, and Kim Jong Il’s other son