North Korea recently appointed a former trade minister … including Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, to discuss business cooperation projects. “Ri may have little experience …
Why North Korea replaced its ambassador to China after 11 years
North Korea recently appointed a former trade minister … including Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, to discuss business cooperation projects. “Ri may have little experience …
Continuity and change in North Korea-China relations
By: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein The recent appointment of Ri Ryong Nam as North Korea’s ambassador to China hints at …
North Korea’s cyber kleptomania is a threat to capitalism
Sometimes missed on North Korea’s voluminous list of human rights abuses are its serial cyber kleptomania and global criminal schemes to rip off the world’s …
Turkmen journalist Ruslan Myatiev: “Three of my colleagues have been through prison”
Turkmenistan ranks as having the second-worst press freedom in the world, just above North Korea. Josef Skrdlik interviews Ruslan Myatiev, founder of Turkmen.news, an independent investigative news …
Turkmen journalist Ruslan Myatiev: “Three of my colleagues have been through prison”
Turkmenistan ranks as having the second-worst press freedom in the world, just above North Korea. Josef Skrdlik interviews Ruslan Myatiev, founder of Turkmen.news, an independent investigative news …
South Korean military report faults border guards for overlooking North Korean defector
The man, who swam the East Sea in a diving suit early Feb. 16, was missed eight of 10 times he showed up on military cameras on the south side of the Demilitarized Zone.
Trump offered Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One following Vietnam summit
Then-President Donald Trump in 2019 offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One following their Vietnam summit, a former senior administration official who was on the trip …
A Principled US Diplomatic Strategy Toward North Korea
I’ll engage in principled diplomacy and keep pressing toward a denuclearized North Korea and a unified Korean Peninsula, while working to reunite Korean Americans separated from loved ones in North …
Report: North Korea’s trade with China declined 80% in 2020
Two-way trade between North Korea and its biggest partner, China, fell 80.7% in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to estimates from Seoul’s Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency.