As South Korea moves forward with plans to dispatch $8 million worth of food aid to North Korea, humanitarianism should be above politics and beyond the scope of sanctions, argues Dr. Kee Park, one of the leading voices on food and medical aid to the D...

One of South Korea’s most prominent experts on North Korea, Moon Chung-in has observed and crafted North-South Korea relations for decades and has extensive knowledge of all three iterations of the Kims in Pyongyang. This week on the podcast,

North Korea watchers were rudely awoken Saturday morning by news that the DPRK had launched a series of so-called “projectiles” off its east coast. And as state media footage emerged the following morning, it became clear that one of the weapons tested...

There’s no shortage of “weird North Korea” stories, but few are as unsettling as the ghost ship phenomenon, wherein dozens of North Korean fishing vessels reach the west coast of Japan, Russia, and sometimes South Korea everywhere without a crew.

Interpreting what and how North Korea says about its nuclear weapons program, foreign policy, and the domestic economy is one of the hardest tasks for Pyongyang-watchers. Minyoung Rachel Lee, recently hired as an analyst for NK News‘s sister site NK Pr...

This week on the podcast, Jacco Zwetsloot, the Fearless Host of the NK News Podcast, gives us a debrief of his recent trip to North Korea and his eventful return to Seoul. Also discussed? NK News Managing Editor Oliver Hotham and correspondent Colin Zw...

Last September saw the two Koreas sign what was described at the time as a “de facto” peace treaty: a comprehensive agreement by their two militaries to seek to reduce tensions and establish trust. But what impact might these changes have on the ground...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is such a thing as rule of law in North Korea, with lawyers, litigation, mitigation, and other familiar proceedings. In fact, Mike Hay argues that the North takes law very seriously when it comes to foreign busine...

Holly Kang is the international programs manager at the UniKorea Foundation, which helps facilitate cross-border understanding, generate research and solutions on North Korea-related issues, and aims to improve global awareness of North Korea-related i...

Where many see threat in North Korea, Jim Rogers sees opportunity. The legendary investor has maintained for years that the DPRK, along with a unified Korean peninsula, presents tremendous opportunities for investors willing to step in at the ground fl...