Someone from the WWW uploaded the BBC World News coverage on Noko Jeans last week.

With every pair of jeans comes this: a individually stamped introduction to the first chapter of Noko Jeans. Nota bene: easily removed, leaving only a tiny beige durango backpatch with the Noko Jeans logo stamped on.

We’re back online, as is the possibility to e-mail us. We’ve improved the SHOP a little bit — more images and even better everything online soon — as well as added some small fragments in the JEANS section. Tomorrow night we’ll be finished with a movie explaining those aspects of the jeans in more detail. In glorious HD, of course.

Other than that, we just looked at a space that might be perfect for the re-opening of our Museum. We’ll get back to you on that very shortly. We’re also, soon of course, adding some more (much requested) images of the jeans here. The Family section, for our customers and BFF’s, will go online soon too. And last, but in no way least, the PAST section is still echoing of silence. But don’t worry. We’re working on that… too.

OK, enough of “soon”, “shortly”, etc. Here’s an interview we did with Refinery 29 that we forgot to post. And here’s the jeans:

We just wanted to tell you that our webshop is ONLINE. The shop is open to almost anyone in the world who wants to buy. However for those who are from USA, please read carefully before pressing the “buy” button.

Noko Jeans comes in two models; Kara Slim Fit and Oke Loose Fit. All the details on both models are literal and/or symbolical interpretations of our experiences in North Korea.

Our website will be updated in the coming days with more images and of course more of our story present.

Thank YOU.

Hello everbody. We’re still busy answering the thousands and thousands of questions we’ve received, both from press, people and the others. At the same time, we’re working very hard with making this site work and full of great stuff; the shop, of course, which hopefully will be up tomorrow, as well as our full story, more images of the jeans, the promised Q&A… etc.

Also, some of you got the chance to buy a pair of jeans during our opening (we’re very close to finding a new location for our museum now!), and some have bought them through Aplace. First of all: thank YOU. Secondly: you are all a hugely important part of the second chapter of Noko Jeans, and we are working on setting up a place where you not only learn more, but become a true part of our story. YES!

It’ll be at nokojeans.com/family, but until that’s up, please send us an e-mail at info@nokojeans.com so we can send you your future login details and all that jazz.

That’s all for now. Your smiles are the eternal pursuit of Noko Jeans.

Fjong! PUB department store has shut down the Noko Jeans Museum, presumably as part of a bigger initiative to investigate worker’s condition for all their brands. We think some of the shelves will look empty come Monday, but still – what a great thing to do of PUB!

(PS — our Museum will re-open at another location soon)

Update: The Washington Post regarding the world’s shortest flagship store ever (two hours, we think).

The interest for this story has been huge. We don’t know how many interviews we’ve done. Some day we’ll gather them all here – most of them raises good questions both in the article and the comment field – but until then, we leave you with two we liked.

The Guardian — “Denim diplomacy: North Korea exports jeans to Sweden”

New York Times — “North Korea-Made Designer Jeans Launched in Sweden”