A chilling documentary looks behind the curtain of an authoritarian regime.

Saturday marked the start of North Korean Freedom Week. The North Korean Freedom Coalition has a roster of events in the Beltway area that are aimed to get out the word regarding human rights atrocities and violations in North Korea; the Coalition’s website notes that since the mid-1990’s, an estimated 2 million North Koreans have died, families continue to starve and people continue to be tortured. Below are a few of the offerings:…

What do Abingdon, Md., and Pyongyang, North Korea, have in common? Well nothing, really, but if you saw an advanced viewing of “Team America” this weekend, you may have been able to make a connection. When DCist stopped off at a Wawa off Interstate 95 in Abingdon, we noticed that a nearby shopping plaza was called “Constant Friendship.” In a nation where suburban developers seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel in…