Japan and North Korea have a complicated relationship, and Tokyo’s approach to solving the nuclear and other issues diverges from the current Seoul government in many ways. Tokyo and Seoul’s own bilateral discord of late has amplified those differences...

A U.S. citizen who says he was arrested and subsequently released from North Korea in 2015 has told his story for the first time, in a series of exclusive interviews with the NK News podcast published today. Listen to part one here and part two here.

A U.S. citizen who says he was arrested and subsequently released from North Korea in 2015 has told his story for the first time, in a series of exclusive interviews with the NK News podcast published today.

A U.S. citizen who says he was arrested and subsequently released from North Korea in 2015 has told his story for the first time, in a series of exclusive interviews with the NK News podcast published today.

Ever wondered what it would be like to work at an embassy in Pyongyang? How dangerous it might be, how effective diplomacy may or may not be, or even just want it’s like to live in North Korea? Ambassador John Everard served as the UK’s lead diplomat i...

Korean Studies occupies a small space in academia, a virtual shrimp among whales in the larger humanities ocean. What happens, then, when one of the titans in this close-knit field is accused of plagiarism? Furthermore,

Senior NK News correspondent Dagyum Ji has been behind some of our biggest stories, research, and analysis these last three years, including “fire and fury,” summits, and missile launches. Dagyum is off to Washington,

To call Park Chul-un a powerhouse in inter-Korean relations may be an understatement. Park visited North Korea secretly decades before any real periods of détente would emerge between Seoul and Pyongyang. As one of the leading South Korean government f...

Bringing in music, art, film, and other forms of entertainment into North Korea for the consumption of a highly select privileged elite has long been a controversial practice, particularly so if the cultural exchange in question involves one of the mos...

The United Nation’s Report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in North Korea was a landmark document that detailed and codified the horrors the Kim Jong Un regime and its forebears inflict upon its people. Crimes against humanity,