Sanctions continue to be the main sticking point seemingly preventing greater diplomatic progress from occurring between the U.S. and North Korea. But is Kim Jong Un interpreting them the same way that Washington believes? If so,

Thousands of western tourists travel to North Korea every year, though doing so raises questions about whether money from sightseeing ultimately ends up contributing to the country’s nuclear weapons program and whether visitors are putting themselves i...

North Korea has fired a series of short-range ballistic missiles and other projectiles in the last two weeks, the first such weapons provocations since early May. The launches were accompanied, before and shortly after,

North Korea and Syria have long enjoyed close ties, sharing historical roots in the anti-imperialist socialist camp during the Cold War and the relationship between the two countries’ founding leaders, Kim Il Sung and Hafez Al-Assad.

Seoul’s ongoing efforts to provide an $8 million humanitarian aid package to North Korea via the World Food Program and UNICEF (and the obstacles encountered) demonstrate the enormous resources necessary to navigate international sanctions against the ...

Kim Jong Un has placed scientific development and innovation at the forefront of his economic policies, placing new resources in front of North Korean scientists previously unavailable to them for many years.

Key to any economic development in North Korea, or anywhere else, is the electricity that supports expanding commercial and industrial activity. But the North has a dilapidated, balkanized electric grid made up of a hodgepodge of Cold War-era and repur...

North Korea went to Hanoi thinking they had a deal. But it suddenly went sideways, leaving both Washington and Pyongyang with nothing in hand and no progress made towards the denuclearization of the peninsula.

The U.S.’s presence on and approach to the Korean peninsula is based on a conventional understanding of its role in the world, in Asia, and the ways in which the country achieves its foreign policy goals. Doug Bandow has for years fought against the ma...

While U.S. President Donald Trump last year declared an end to the nuclear threat from North Korea and South Korean President Moon Jae-in declared just last week that Washington and Pyongyang have now brought an end to hostile relations,