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North Korea’s Economic Crisis: Solutions or More Controls?
By Lee Sang-yong
A pattern of tightening market controls and soaring prices has culminated in an ambitious government intervention – a comprehensive plan to regulate the grain trade.
What to Make of Russia’s New Security Agreements
By Michael MacArthur Bosack
The treaties with Iran and Belarus are different from the one Russia reached with North Korea, and there has been no attempt to link any of them.
What Do POWs in Ukraine Teach Us About North Korea’s Military?
By Elena Guido
North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine provide a rare window into covert military collaboration.
Will Casualties in Ukraine Lead to Change in North Korea?
By Karl Anthony Borg
The unprecedented loss of life in a foreign conflict means that the war in Ukraine could be the Kim regime’s most significant test since the 1990s famine.
The Case for South Korea Prohibiting Anti-North Korean Leaflet Launches
By Chaerin Kim
That the provocations exchanged between the Koreas – leaflets, balloons, and noise – were of relatively low intensity should give no one a sense of security.
North Korea Launches SRBMs Toward Its Eastern Waters, South Korea Says
By Mitch Shin
Eight days after Pyongyang launched a hypersonic ballistic missile, it fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the sea.
North Korea in 2025: Make Money Not War
By Khang Vu
A country on the precipice of war with its neighbors would not be selling arms and sending troops off to fight in a distant conflict.
Over 300 North Korean Soldiers Have Died in Russia’s Kursk Region
By Mitch Shin
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported that more than 300 North Korean soldiers were killed fighting against Ukraine, while more than 2,700 were injured.
North Korea’s Position on the Turmoil in South Korea
By ISOZAKI Atsuhito
Pyongyang has been surprisingly restrained.
How Jimmy Carter Stopped the Second Korean War
By Joel S. Wit
In the summer of 1994, war on the Korean Peninsula seemed inevitable. Then Carter and his wife arrived in Pyongyang.
Can There Be a Settlement on the Korean Peninsula Without an End to the War in Ukraine?
By Gerald Pech
A changed political situation in South Korea and the U.S. could represent an opportunity for an opening gambit. But any progress toward an agreement is contingent on the outcome of the Ukraine war.
Will Trump Reopen Back-Channel Diplomacy with North Korea?
By Hanjin Park and Jiachen Shi
Drawing lessons from the back-channel diplomacy of his first term, Trump may well reengage North Korea through secret negotiations.
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