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 “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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