North Korea is a land of stories that don't often get told. Here are some that did
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With a U.S. soldier crossing the border into North Korea at the border town of Panmunjom and in custody this week, talk turns to the nation itself — a country that is known for its suspicion of outsiders but also rejects frequent descriptions of it as reclusive. In some ways, North Korea is a nation like many others; it is also definitively its own thing, sometimes strikingly different from the rest of the world. For six years until his death in 2019, longtime Associated Press Asia correspondent Eric Talmadge was the news organization’s Pyongyang bureau chief.
In some ways, North Korea is a nation like many others; it is also definitively its own thing, sometimes strikingly different from the rest of the world.
As the drama around the American soldier plays out, here is a selection of some of Talmadge's AP coverage that pulls back the curtain on a society that few around the world see.
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