Film Review: The Unsung Heroes (이름 없는  영웅들) -- This movie from North Korea is about a North Korean spy ring's exploits in South Korea during the Korean War.  It is based loosely on non-fictional real people and real events. It includes a cast of real people as well as fictional figures highly dramatized.

Film Review: North Korea: Beyond the DMZ (Workers World) -- At last a movie has been made by a U.S. film crew about North Korea that makes an effort to understand that country, not just demonize it.  "North Korea: Beyond the DMZ" is a Third World Newsreel release produced by J.T. Takagi and Hye Jung Park and edited by Dena Mermelstein. The one-hour film has been screened twice in New York theaters to capacity audiences, made up largely of young Koreans, and will be seen soon in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.  

Liberating Korea? (A book review) -  "This book explains why North Korea feels compelled to develop a nuclear bomb deliverable to the USA.  Primarily through the private diaries of US generals and the photography of the US Military, this book describes what we did to the Koreans during the Occupation (1945-1948) and the Korean War (1950-1953).  The Koreans just do not want that happen again -- at least not without this time giving the Americans equal punishments."  -- Arthur J. Paone, 2003.   

Operation AVIARY, Airborne Special Operations, Korea, 1950-1953 (by Col. D. Dillard) -- This is a history of the heroic efforts of the North Korean anti-Communists, and also of the courageous acts of the US and British personnel. This book details for the first time the firsthand experiences and the personal histories of other veterans who conducted Airborne Special Operations behind the enemy lines. Their stories are fascinating and would be great movie material. 

The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital -- The book uses sites in Pyongyang as a starting point to explore North Korea's past and present. It combines vivid photos and site-by-site descriptions - even hidden sites are exposed, from prisons to Party headquarters. 

The ABC's of NBC Warfare Survival, a Public Guide to Surviving Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorist Attacks -- Written in concise, simple and comprehensive language, The ABCs of NBC Warfare Survival eliminates the need for extensive research by the reader and condenses volumes of material into a bottom line, no frills text. 

North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation - In a timely examination of North Korea's nuclear capabilities, political journalist Michael J. Mazarr offers inside information on one of the most closed societies on earth. Mazarr draws on years of research and interviews with officials involved to explain why the North Korean nuclear program presents the biggest diplomatic challenge of the post-Cold War era.

The High Cost of Peace: How Washington's Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to Terrorism -  Kim Il Sung gave Iran two nuclear warheads mounted on missiles in 1991. In October 1992, Iran was ready to fire the missiles on Israel and US targets. Iraq, Syria and North Korea were to join in this Jiahad. But Kim Il Sung got ill and died before the war could start.

The Korean War: The Story and Photographs - This compelling photographic history examines the war in its entirety, from causes and protagonists to strategies weapons, and battles. Donald Goldstein and Harry J. Maihaferhave collected more than 450 vivid photogrpahs, many never before seen by the general public.

Sources of Korean Tradition - This collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for understanding Korean civilization and demonstrates how leading intellectuals and public figures in Korea have looked at life, the traditions of their ancestors, and the world they lived in.