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Who 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...
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Preparations 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...
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DPRK 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...
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News 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...
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Yet 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...
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Repression 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...
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Russia 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...
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Both 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...
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DPRK’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...
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Outcomes 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...
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North 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...
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DPRK’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...
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From 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...
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On 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...
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Surprise 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...
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The 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...
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Who 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...
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On 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...
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USA-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...
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Is 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...
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