Both U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have made achieving denuclearization and establishing a “peace regime” on the peninsula their key foreign policy goals.  Not everyone is convinced, however: David Straub,

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In April 2003, the Tuvalu-flagged North Korean Pong Su ship was seized by Australian authorities, with the ship’s crew accused of smuggling up to 125 kg of heroin. The men were detained pending trial in Australia,

The first working-level talks between North Korea and the United States in months kicked off Saturday, only to break off hours later. Both sides apparently walked away with different assessments of what went wrong,

Unification has been a primary ethos of both South and North Korean identity since the peninsula was split in two, a sine qua non of a shared ‘minjok’ bloodline that stretches back (accordingly) 5000 years.

Hard numbers are, well, hard to come by in and from North Korea, making quantitative analysis much more challenging than it would be in other parts of the world. The denouement of decades of poor or non-existence record keeping means even rather mundan...

How does North Korea retain control over its 25 million people, and is that control administered on a day-to-day basis? These questions drove scholar Benjamin Silberstein’s interest in the DPRK, and on this week’s episode he discusses the country’s pow...

This episode is part six of a special summer miniseries on the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students. You can listen to part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, and part five here.

Is China truly the security threat in Asia that Washington seems convinced it is? David Kang doesn’t think so, and he points the actions of the Koreas and others as evidence that states in the region are calibrated to a world in which China does not ne...

This episode is part five of a special summer miniseries on the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students. You can listen to part one here, part two here, part three here, and part four here. The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students was held in th...