A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.

There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14—a prison for the political enemies of North Korea—was home. Then one day came the chance to flee.

Alarmingly sophisticated imitations of American currency have turned up all over the world and the false-paper trail leads to North Korea.

On the “horrible weirdness” of Kim Jung Il’s Korea.

The perilous routes through which information—video footage, secret documents, radio broadcasts—flow in and out of North Korea through its porous borders with China.

Inside Office 39, a state-run counterfeiting operation designed to keep Kim Jong-il flush.