When he took over as North Korean leader from his father back in 2011, the West predicted he was too young and inexperienced to survive long. Kim’s been defying the odds ever since. Ten years ago this month, North Korea’s Kim Jong-il passed away following a long decline in his health. Aware of his limited…
Anti-Pyongyang propaganda periodically delights the world with horror stories in the DPRK, which circulate well in the media and which now must be clarified. It happened twice in the second half of November. On November 16, Radio Free Asia, a private non-profit news service funded by the US government, told the world the heartbreaking story…
In this essay, I will be addressing the following issues: US war crimes committed against the Korean Nation (1950-53), Fire and Fury and the Nuclear Issue: From the Cold War to the Present The debate on Reunification and the Sunshine Movement The Candlelight Movement which led to the impeachment of president Park Guen hye The formulation…
Abstract: The Korean War remains conspicuously absent from assertions by the US that it is done with forever wars, but the war remains a fact of life that Koreans live with every day. It continues in other ways too. * U.S. President Joe Biden recently declared that “for the first time in 20 years, the…
Economic sanctions have demonstrably failed to change North Korean behavior. So, when is the world going to try something new? North Korea is one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world. It has been subject to U.S. and international sanctions for more than 70 years. Those sanctions have come in three overlapping waves,…
Much of the talk about how long the DPRK regime will last under sanctions and the country’s “self-isolation” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is rooted in the question of what role Beijing will play in supporting Pyongyang. In 2019, China accounted for about 95 per cent of North Korea’s total trade, according to…
