Blaine Harden

Blaine Harden is the author of three books about North Korea and was a longtime foreign correspondent for _The Washington Post_.

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North Korean soldiers passing in front of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il portraits on Kim Il Sung Square, Pyongyang, North Korea, 2012. (Credit: Eric Lafforgue/Getty Images)
Asian History

How North Korea Feeds Its Impoverished People a Steady Diet of Anti-U.S. Paranoia

For nearly seven decades, the Kim family dynasty has warned the North Korean people that the U.S. is a murderous superpower—and their only chance of survival is nuclear-level readiness for an American attack.