‘Changing the Channel’ is the 29th cartoon exclusively for Daily NK by Gregory Pence. A creative and talented cartoonist, Pence works from his home in the United States to throw new light on political, economic and human rights problems in Northeast Asia.

As Daily NK has extensively documented over the past few years, North Korean society is changing. In particular, we can now say with certainty that the state is no longer the be all and end all of life for North Korean people. As symbolized by the weak TV signal and sliced off portraits in 'Changing the Channel', people are starting to go their own way…