The Jangmadang Generation grew up in a theoretically communist nation as capitalists who accepted the market in their daily lives.

Tai Wei Lim is an associate professor at Soka University, who has been researching Northeast Asian Affairs as an area studies specialist....

After publishing “North Korea’s Knowledge Economy and Foreign Direct Investment” in the Fall 2020 volume of North Korea Review, Alexander...

NKR interview with David Hall, author of the Fall 2020 NKR article “The 1956 August Plenum Incident: A Historiographical Analysis"

Written by Song, Kyungho for the Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies. Translated by NKR Intern Samuel Dodge. Original Korean...

Kim Jong-un has once again vowed to advance North Korea (DPRK)’s nuclear capabilities, confirming the failure of the denuclearization...

Synopsis: Pyongyang claims that Washington is impeding North Korean progress and is a prime threat, but that does not mean bombastic...

There is no doubt that North Koreans are now living in a capitalistic society. As of 2018, there were at least 435 officially sanctioned...

Translated by NKR Intern Se-Young Hwang On July 14th, 1950, as the situation turned unfavorable during the Korean War, then-president...

Pictured on both national propaganda and the human rights posters of Western media, the children of North Korea fulfill an important...