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Michael Macarthur BosackThe Diplomat |
Just a week after North Korea signaled openness to dialogue, the U.S. launched a military operation against Iran with a stated goal of regime change.
The biggest takeaway: there were no groundbreaking changes, whether in foreign policy or domestic politics.
The generational shift that the Ninth Party Congress signaled is noticeable: Kim’s old mentors and advisors inside the regime have stepped aside –...
To understand what may emerge from the Ninth Party Congress, it is worth examining what these meetings are and how their functions have evolved.
The Lee administration may be hoping to resume cooperation at the Kaesong Industrial Complex. But Pyongyang is just not interested.
The South Korean government has repeatedly conveyed its willingness to accept the soldiers as its citizens after the war.
The Socialist Patriotic Youth League offers a window into how the North Korean authorities uses state-run organizations to govern.
Pyongyang was slow in issuing a relatively tempered statement, but also turned a missile launch event into a tool for deterrence signaling.
Will the Kim regime be successful in uprooting this core element of North Korea’s black market economy?
The plenum served as a primer for the bigger party congress that is yet to come.
While Chung Dong-young’s political agenda is clear, his comments fail to recognize that the DMZ is governed by specific rules and procedures for...
Lee has downgraded “denuclearization” as a goal. Will it be enough to attract interest from Pyongyang?
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.