Testimony and its Epistemological (Im)possibility
Picture Credit: Yonhap News, https://www.voakorea.com/a/2729885.html Resistance is a fact of history, and only in accepting this fact...
Luisa Kim, NKR Intern
North Korea’s Regime Security and Coup Proofing Politics
North Korea’s society is a personalist dictatorship regime, in which the leader has access to unlimited discretionary power. In such a...
Soyoung Kwon, YINKS Researcher
The No-Fly Zone and Its Effects on Surveillance
On September 19, 2018, North and South Korea adopted the ‘Agreement on the Implementation of the Historic Panmunjom Declaration in the...
Seung-chan Boo, YINKS Researcher
Explaining the boom of leisure activities in North Korea
According to the Korea Development Institute, a recent boom of leisure facilities occurred in North Korea, ranging from the construction...
Alice Jaewon Lee, NKR Intern
Applying Lessons from Afghanistan to North Korea: Infrastructure Reconstruction
Image: US Department of Defense From Singapore to Hanoi, the only thing we received from the historic Trump-Kim summits was ambiguity....
Nattanun Somchoe, NKR Intern
Changes in inter-Korean Relations – South Korea, let’s head North!
A South Korean train passes over a cross-border railway bridge near the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Paju, north of Seoul on August 21,...
Jae-deok Choi, YINKS Researcher
Trump and Kim Jong-un: Climbing the Diplomatic Ladder
At the first U.S.-North Korea summit in June 2018, President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un agreed to pursue “new U.S.-DPRK...
Leif-Eric Easley
The Inter-Korean Relationship Post-2018: Another Wasted Chance for Peace
Photo credit: The Washington Post April 27th, 2018 shall go down in history as one of the most significant dates in inter-Korean...
Annisa Pratamasari, NKR Intern
Social Change, North Korea’s Transition, and the U.S. - North Korea Summit
Photo credit: Kim Won-Jin | AFP | Getty Images Following the breakdown of talks at the North Korea - U.S. Summit in Hanoi, the...
Moon Sang-seok, YINKS Researcher
Kim Jong-il's New Years Speech and What it Means for South Korea's Denuclearization Policy
Photo credit: NBC News International affairs on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia are complicated, mostly due to issues...
Ryu Young-wook
