North Korea

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.

The success of North Korean renewable energy projects will depend on the willingness of key allies, such as China, to facilitate.

To address the grim humanitarian situation in North Korea, countries should get smart about implementing sanctions, not lift them.

Coercing, and even abducting, defectors is a common tactic for authoritarian regimes to discourage defection.

Some experts say 3,000-5,000 ethnic Chinese live in North Korea and are the only foreigners with permanent residency rights.

Although the main focus of China’s new land law relates to territorial disputes with neighboring countries like India, it also contains specific language applicable to the influx of outside populations.

How does a new rule barring the export and resale of cyber “intrusion software” to China and Russia without the proper license mitigate the North Korean cyber threat?

Both North and South Korea demonstrated a wide range of new missile capabilities in September 2021. What’s driving their arms race?

Subnational diplomacy offers an established, yet underutilized, opportunity for American officials to creatively engage Pyongyang.