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The thirteenth parade, a solid-fuel rocket and the daughter of the Leader of...
A military parade commemorating the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Korean People’s Army was staged in Pyongyang, Kim Il-sung Square, on the night of February 8 to 9. It was a large colorful...
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On Wang Yi’s trip to Europe
On February 15, Wang Yi began a week-long tour of several European countries, his first trip abroad since assuming the post of head of the Office of the CPC Central Committee Commission on January 1...
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Is the DPRK still a sponsor of terrorism? Well…
On February 27, 2023, the US State Department released a report in which the US left North Korea on the 2021 list of countries sponsoring terrorism. The other two were Iran and Syria. As noted in the...
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Seoul’s efforts to intensify the human rights issue in North Korea are met...
On March 28, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol stated that “the reality of the horrific human rights violations against the North Korean people must be fully revealed to the international...
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“North Korean hackers” in 2022
The author constantly writes about the “crimes of hackers from the DPRK,” and after talking about the problems that the cybersecurity of the Republic of Korea is facing, it’s time to talk about what...
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Anti-prediction on the anticipation regarding the outcome of Yoon Suk-yeol’s...
A genre the author refers to as “anti-predictions” may be found in his various works. They describe the most dismal developments in the hope that others who read them would approach the situation in a...
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Waiting for the launch of North Korea’s first military intelligence satellite
This author will discuss the current round in the confrontation between the two Koreas in his next article, and pause for a moment to look at a more significant event. On April 18 Kim Jong-un, General...
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The President of the Republic of Korea’s Visit to the United States: An...
Yoon and Biden’s opening monologue was theatrical, just like the Washington Declaration. “The United States and the ROK are constructing an Alliance that will provide future generations with a firm...
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Thae Yong-ho – is this the end of his career?
Readers of previous articles by the present writer will know that the present author has a special interest in defectors from North Korea. As a result of their efforts a number of extravagant myths...
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DPRK satellite launch: a rocky start, but failures happen
The development of the satellite was one of the key weapons projects announced by Kim Jong-un during the congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea in January 2021, along with a solid-fuel...
View ArticleThe Death of American Student and its Possible Political Consequences.
We recently published an article explaining how, on June 13, 2017, after 17 months of imprisonment, the DPRK released American student Otto-Frederick Warmbier, whom they had sentenced to fifteen years...
View ArticleOn the New United Nations SC Sanctions Against North Korea
On August 5, 2017 The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted resolution 2371 entailing the toughening of the sanctions against North Korea, in response to the launch of the Hwasong-14...
View ArticleOn the Release of Pastor Lim Hyun-Soo
On August 9, 2017 DPRK authorities released Canadian pastor, Hyeon Soo Lim, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of conducting subversive activities. As reported by the Korean Central...
View ArticleHow Hot will the Year 2017 be? A War of Words, or the Countdown has Begun?
Quite recently, we discussed the North Korean response to the UN sanctions resolution, noting that from the North Korean side, the raising of the rates was minimal. However, this was only sufficient...
View ArticleKorea: At the Red Line
About a week has passed since the verbal skirmish between Trump and Kim Jong-un, and experts, including the author, have frozen in anticipation of what the next steps will be like, seeing that the...
View ArticleUSA-DPRK: “Strategic Patience” and an Abrupt Stop in the Negotiation Process
Despite the fact that all of 2008 trends were generally positive, it was not possible to completely liquidate the nuclear issue by the end of the Bush presidency. “The devil is in the details,” and the...
View ArticleIs Kim Jong-un Preparing for War on the Korean Peninsula?
The end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 brought a whole set of news in the media, the essence of which could be reduced to the phrase ‘the DPRK is preparing for war’. First of all, this statement was...
View ArticleThe Unproved Involvement of the DPRK in the Killing of Kim Jong-Nam is Now...
On March 5, 2018 a sensational headline appeared in several Western newspapers: North Korea has used chemical weapons against its own citizens! Having reached that conclusion, the USA imposed new...
View ArticleIs North Korea Fulfilling its Singapore Summit Commitments?
Against the background of a number of high-profile statements by the Western press that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is secretly developing a nuclear missile program, thereby...
View ArticleWho Is Responsible for the WannaCry Virus?
On June 8 2018 the FBI put Park Jin Hyok, a North Korean citizen, on its Wanted list and issued an order for his arrest. He is accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and computer fraud. According...
View ArticlePreparations for Second Summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump
The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, citing sources in the US administration, has reported that the next summit between the United States and DPRK was to take place as early as the middle of November....
View ArticleDPRK Is Still Being Persecuted For “Violating Human Rights”
The ties between South and North Koreas are becoming closer and there are fewer tensions in the relationship between DPRK and the USA. That often makes us forget that, though it was rather the...
View ArticleNews about “North Korean Hackers” and IT Penetration in DPRK
The last time we discussed the subject of North Korean hackers was when the U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions against the hacker Park Jin Hyok from DPRK and the North Korean company...
View ArticleYet Another Victor Cha’s Attempt to Stall US-DPRK Talks, or was it John...
Not long ago, we examined two attempts which were made by Victor Cha—failed US Ambassador to South Korea and one of the most odious foreign policy hawks—to disrupt the North Korea–United States Summit....
View ArticleRepression of North Korean Diplomats – Another Red Herring from the Chosun Ilbo
The latest news item about DPRK’s bloody regime is spreading throughout the globe. The conservative South Korean newspaper the Chosun Ilbo cited an unnamed source in its article, which said that in...
View ArticleRussia and China in the Korean Peace Process
Trilateral talks were held in Moscow on October 9, 2018 between Russia, North Korea and China. The meeting brought together Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, North Korean Vice Minister of...
View ArticleBoth South Korea and Japan Accuse Each Other of Clandestinely Trading with DPRK
As we continue to follow the latest developments in the trade war between South Korea and Japan, we have noticed that both sides have been using an interesting tactic, i.e. playing the North Korea...
View ArticleDPRK’s Fourth Short Range Missile Launch and the International Reaction
Early in the morning of August 6, North Korea conducted a new series of missile launches, the fourth incident over the last two weeks. Short-range missiles (presumably the same type as those that were...
View ArticleOutcomes of Meeting between US and DPRK Representatives on 4 – 5 October 2019
On 1 October 2019, Choe Son Hui, First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, released a statement saying that North Korea and the United States had agreed to hold a meeting between their...
View ArticleNorth Korean Workers Return Home. Will Pyongyang Face Insurmountable Problems?
The deadline, established by the United Nations Security Council in December 2017, for ensuring all DPRK workers employed abroad return home was on December 22, 2019. As a result, all North Korean...
View ArticleDPRK’s Digital Potential
North Korea is considered to be one of the poorest countries and many believe that it is behind the rest of the world in the IT sphere. But is this true? Mobile phone and computer penetration As of...
View ArticleFrom Where do Fables “Take Off”, or Lessons in Source Studies
On May 2, 2020, North Korea’s leader appeared in public, putting an end to rumors about his death or complete incapacity. The frenzy around this subject demonstrated nicely the value of a few “informed...
View ArticleOn the “Korean Issue” in the Book Rage by Bob Woodward
The upcoming US presidential election is yielding a series of books designed to analyze how Donald Trump has performed and, more often than not, put forth a rationale why everything went wrong during...
View ArticleSurprise in October, or What We Saw at the Military Parade in Pyongyang
On October 10, 2020, the DPRK held a massive celebration for the 75th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. It is one of the most important national holidays, and the milestone anniversary was...
View ArticleThe Eighth WPK DPRK Congress
From January 5 to January 13, the 8th congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was held in North Korea, which marked a series of major inner-party and inner-state changes. Background The decision...
View ArticleWho will Handle the Korean Conflict under Biden, and How?
We have already made preliminary predictions about what the new US president’s course on the Korean Peninsula will look like. Now that Joe Biden has introduced some of his team and partially spoken out...
View ArticleOn Why Foreign Diplomats Flee Pyongyang
First, on March 18, 2021, NK News reported that there were no foreign UN or international NGO workers left in North Korea. About two dozen citizens of the Czech Republic, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and...
View Article“Invisible” Launches and a Possible Nuclear Test: a Point of No Return is One...
There is a steady flow of allegations from South Korean and Western experts that the DPRK may conduct a new nuclear test in the very near future. On April 28, 2022, speaking at a forum on “North...
View ArticleIn Wait for the Seventh Nuclear Test of the DPRK
The speech of Kim Jong-un, which we reviewed earlier on July 27, 2022, was perceived as a sign that this time the DPRK will definitely conduct the seventh nuclear test in the very near future, and...
View ArticlePRC-DPRK Relations in 2021-2022; the Political Aspect
Following a series of articles on the interaction between Seoul and Beijing, it is worth examining what the communication between Beijing and Pyongyang has looked like. Kim and Xi have constantly...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s October rocket launches: international reactions
Following on from our previous article on the escalation of tensions in October 2022, we will look at the international reaction to North Korea’s rocket launches. The first thing that should be noted...
View ArticleDPRK launches medium-range missile, danger line is one step closer
The current rise in tensions on the Korean peninsula is by no means over with US carrier group maneuvers and a series of short-range North Korean missile launches. It should be recalled that “in a...
View ArticleDPRK exercises: Pyongyang has revealed its cards and the dangerous line is...
Since the publication of the visit of the US carrier group to the ROK, the vicious circle of tensions has taken another turn or two. The previous digest was ended with Pyongyang launching two...
View ArticleAnother half step to the dangerous line
Just when the author thought that, once the North Korean “nuclear counterattack exercise” was over, he could have a rest, this, unfortunately, would not come to pass! The tension continues unabated...
View ArticleRelations between the USA and North Korea in the second half of 2022
When considering the increase in tensions in the Korean Peninsula in autumn 2022 – an issue the present author has dedicated several articles to – it is worth looking at how relations between North...
View ArticleNo DPRK nuclear test yet
North Korea has conducted a total of six nuclear tests since 2006 and a seventh is believed to be just around the corner – in 2022, Western experts have named seven or eight dates on which Kim Jong-un...
View ArticleThe anniversary of the DPRK missile launch
Tensions between North and South Korea have not abated, and the advance toward the danger line is unceasing. On November 9, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan....
View ArticleImplementation of the rocket decisions of the WPK Congress
The middle of December 2022 was marked by several important events that were not so much an aggravation of the situation on the Korean peninsula, but rather an important step in implementing the...
View ArticleA new step to the dangerous line: now with drones?
On December 26, 2022, there was an incident between North and South that some media outlets immediately hyped as “peninsula on the brink of war”: five North Korean drones crossed the inter-Korean...
View ArticleA wave of fake news about famine in today’s North Korea
In the second half of June 2023, a wave of claims hit the world media that North Korea was allegedly experiencing a famine comparable to the Arduous March of the 1990s. A BBC article supposedly based...
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