North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw his first full-scale ICBM test since November 2017.

Helping North Korea help itself will require creativity, flexibility, and patience.

Two new structures appeared to have been built to the site's south between February and early March. 

Pyongyang continues to defy miscalculated expectations regarding its cyber capabilities by successfully employing a series of sophisticated cyberattacks that target new and developing financial technology.

Why is North Korea testing so many missiles in January 2022?

Since the collapse of the U.S.-North Korea summit at Hanoi in February 2019, North Korea and the United States have been locked in a diplomatic impasse. 

North Korean hackers are likely to include new play-to-earn (P2E) crypto games within their illicit cyber-enabled financial schemes.

South Korea says it has agreed, in principle, with the U.S. on a draft end-of-war declaration, but North Korea has continued to refuse to participate. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to increased online spending which Pyongyang and other illicit actors will likely continue to exploit.

The North Korean regime’s repression of South Korean culture reflects a logic that equates foreign culture with a threat to the regime’s stability. 

Both domestically and internationally, class struggle prevents North Korea from integrating into the world economy. 

There are barriers to the participation of young North Korean women in the human rights movement.