The breakdown in dialogue at last week’s Hanoi Summit was driven, in part, by the inability for both sides to communicate clearly what their objectives and timelines were. As Glyn Ford explains in his new book, however,

The second summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump is over, concluding, much to everyone’s surprise, with the two sides failing to come to an agreement. In a special round-table podcast recorded on the ground in Hanoi,

As Trump and Kim Jong Un prepared for their second summit in Hanoi, we sat down with Jay Song, a Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Melbourne, last week, to talk about the increasingly salient role that women have in helping the opp...

With a second U.S.-North Korea summit just a week away and growing speculation among experts that the meeting will lead to a major agreement between the two countries, it’s more important than ever that observers study the past. Ambassador Joseph R.

The release of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 2014 represented a significant milestone in human rights documentation and reporting in North Korea. Five years later,

NK News‘s sister site NK Pro has for several months now been putting out the “Month in Review” feature, a comprehensive guide to all the most critical goings-on in and around the peninsula over the previous 31 days. This week,

With a second summit between North Korea and the U.S. looming and plans for Kim Jong Un to visit Seoul in the coming months, it feels like the days of fire and fury are far behind us. But, as pointed out by a recent report by the International Crisis G...

U.S.-North Korea diplomacy got a much-needed shot in the arm over the weekend, with officials from both sides sitting down for long-awaited talks in Washington DC and on the outskirts of Stockholm. Those meetings saw, among other things,

The U.S.-South Korea relationship has a long and complex history, with the issue having gained particular importance last year amid talk of a “decoupling” in the alliance. In this episode, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert discusses hi...

Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s address this week was hotly-anticipated, with DPRK watchers across the world keeping a close eye on a speech expected to define North Korean policy for 2019. Just a day after the speech, NK News journalists Oliver Hotham,