A British tour guide who shows groups of tourists around North Korea says everyone’s “wrong” about the country — and it’s just a “normal” place to live. Zoe Stephens, 31, has visited North Korea 30 times since March 2016 — taking countless “foreigners” from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia with her. She says there … Read more
Kim Jong Un’s hermit kingdom will lower its drawbridge once again. North Korea will allow visitors to enter at least part of the country starting in December after the reclusive country shut its doors to the outside world for nearly five years because of strict COVID-19 restrictions. Tourism in the northeastern city of Samjiyon — … Read more
Brazilian self-proclaimed paranormal expert and fortune teller warns that two more of his prophecies have come true recently. Athos Salomé — known to his followers as the “New Nostradamus” and self-named after the French astrologer and apothecary from the 1500s — claims to have accurately predicted major world events including the coronavirus pandemic, Elon Musk buying … Read more
The mystery of what actually goes on behind the illusive North Korean border has fascinated the globe ever since it detached and went rogue in the 1950s. Sometimes, stories of life on the ground seep through the cracks of Kim Jong-un’s authoritarian information wall. We have heard gut-churning tales of starvation, secret prisons and the … Read more
I’ve had some rather memorable experiences overseas. I’ve had the male version of a “vagina steam” at one of Gwyneth Paltrow’s favorite spas in LA, and I’ve watched dead bodies being cremated on the banks of the Ganges in India. But neither of those compared to my recent visit to the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between … Read more
The satire of 1964’s “Dr. Strangelove” may become a terrifying global reality by 2024, a coalition of scientists desperately warn. Over 100 medical journals are simultaneously sounding the alarm that the potential for world-ending nuclear conflict is “great and growing” amidst states like Russia dangerously stockpiling their doomsday payloads. “A large-scale nuclear war between the … Read more
North Korea, the highly isolated, totalitarian Asian nation, is home to certain unusual superlatives — but, for many inside its borders, living in luxury is far from them. And what reality holds in store for Travis King — the 23-year-old US soldier who defected to North Korea on Tuesday by running across the border while … Read more
The first time Monica Macias met an American, she ran away. She was terrified, she said, convinced that she was in imminent danger. The teachings came from the men who raised her — not one but two brutal dictators. Francisco Macias Nguema, her biological father and the first president of Equatorial Guinea, committed so many atrocities … Read more