Congress should renew the North Korean Human Rights Act, but also urgently exert pressure on the State Department to preserve ...

North Korea will not abandon its nuclear weapons. This is not a matter of opinion, but a strategic fact rooted in decades of ...

On December 17, 2011, Kim Jong-il's seventeen-year rule came to an end as he reportedly succumbed to a heart attack. Nearly fifty hours after the event, the North Korean propaganda apparatus ...

North Korea expert Sue Mi Terry on the future of the Kim Jong Un regime - "Intelligence Matters" ... In terms of the leadership, there's continuing concerns about Kim Jong Un's health.

Kim's comments and his reshuffle of the leadership appear to have two aims, says Park Hyeong-jung, a North Korea expert at the Korea Institute for National Unification, or KINU, a government think ...

A5: The most interesting aspect of this potential leadership transition is that Jong-un represents perhaps a more cosmopolitan type of future leadership that has been missing from North Korea since ...

But North Korea’s unilateral exit from the NPT, its failure to meet past denuclearization pledges, and the extreme concentration of political power in the hands of Kim Jong-un are insurmountable ...

A crisis appears to be brewing in North Korea. The price of basic commodities and food has spiked sharply resulting in shortages. Cross-border trade with China plummeted by 90 percent between ...

The Dec. 29, 2024, plenary session of the Eighth Party Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was presented as a grand showcase of North Korea's achievements and a roadmap for its future.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday presided over discussions during the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party.. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) did ...

North Korea faces big unknowns that could upset the strong trajectory it has set out on and pave the way for a future in which the nation does not exist as we now know it. It is not clear what a ...

The People Want South Korea. But while the regime pushes Iran toward the North Korea model, the people have chosen otherwise. The 2009 Green Movement, the 2017 and 2019 economic protests, and the ...