Getting rid of North Korea’s dictator
The United States has some leverage in making a deal with Beijing on hastening the end of the North Korean regime, notes Roderick MacFarquhar, a research professor of history and… Read more »
Category: North Korea
North Korea’s Solzhenitsyn
It was a dog-eared manuscript, 743 pages bound in string. But for Do Hee-youn, an activist campaigning for human rights in North Korea, it was nothing less than stunning, The… Read more »
Crimes of a Belligerent State: North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses
Pyongyang is the world’s worst human rights violator, and yet, the Kim regime’s behavior at home cannot be dismissed as an isolated threat far from America’s shores, as North Korea’s… Read more »
South Korea’s president impeached. What you need to know.
On Friday, South Korea’s Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the legislature’s impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, notes Celeste Arrington, an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. After months… Read more »
North Korea’s crimes against humanity demand justice
A rare piece of fiction from one of the world’s most repressive regimes reaches English speakers for the first time this week, Reuters reports: The Accusation is thought to be the… Read more »
North Korea: Compromising Connectivity
As ordinary North Koreans have found ways to get information the state denies them — soppy South Korean dramas and peppy pop songs, novels, news from the outside world —… Read more »
The not-so-shocking death of Kim Jong Nam
The death in Malaysia of Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of former North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, was shocking on its surface. But despite the brutal and spy-thriller… Read more »
N. Korea’s jangmadang markets raise questions of regime resilience
Anything to break the information blockade in North Korea should be encouraged, from USB drives containing foreign films to radios that can be tuned to news broadcasts from abroad,… Read more »
Will Jangmadang lead to an opening of North Korea?
Since the mid-1990s, when an estimated one million people died from starvation or hunger-related illnesses during the famine that plagued North Korea, jangmadang (private markets) have emerged as a critical means of… Read more »
North Korea: The human rights and security linkage
Too often in the past the issue of human rights in the DPRK has been treated as a separate or even a secondary concern to the security situation, notes the… Read more »