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How a Hacker Named P4x Took Down North Korea’s Internet
North Korea hacked him. Things got personal.
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Memories of Motherhood and Our Top 5
“Much of the time, I feel like a girl. A curious girl of 48 who, today, is walking the neighborhood streets with a girl of 13, and listening to what this girl has to say. She happens to be my kid, this person I made, a living being that gave my life a whole new […]
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North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
“Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom’s attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.”
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The Lazarus Heist: How North Korea Almost Pulled Off a Billion-Dollar Hack
“The young Kim, who took power in late 2011 upon his father’s death, called nuclear weapons a “treasured sword”, but he too needed a way to fund them – a task complicated by the ever tighter sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council after the country’s first tests of a nuclear device and a long-range […]
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The Secret Group Trying to Topple North Korea’s Regime
Has the U.S. government already betrayed the activists seeking regime change in North Korea?
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Best of 2025: All Our Number One Story Picks
Every story we selected for the number one slot in our weekly newsletter, all in one place.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition, we recommend stories from Eli Saslow, Mitchell S. Jackson, Adam Ciralsky, Heidi Lasher, and Noah Rawlings.
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Food, Shared Humanity, and the Week’s Top 5
“Once weekly fare, I now have cholent only a few times a year; I, too, am no longer observant. I don’t think this is a coincidence. Which is to say that, while I stand by the choices I’ve made and the life I am choosing to live—different from how I was raised, but no less […]
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The Price of Freedom
“Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.”
