The U.S. 2018 Mid-Term Election Results and the 2020 Presidential Election Outlook
Photo credit: Pacific Standard Given that the U.S. government is facing a period of rapid change within its unification policy, the...
Lee Byung-Jae, YINKS Researcher
Seizure of the North Korean Vessel the Wise Honest by the U.S. Department of Justice
Photo credit: The BBC The first-ever seizure of a North Korean cargo vessel by U.S. authorities in retaliation for international...
Jonathan Lim, NKR Intern
The Safety of Inter-Korean Relations, the Development of North Korea, and Renewed Korea-Japan Relati
Photo credit: Kyodo News “Promises are made to be kept”; an aphorism suggesting that promises between sovereign states are more binding...
Sung-bae Kim, YINKS Researcher
One Nation, One Language? Linguistic Differences and Their Implications for a Reunified Korea
(Photo credit: The Asia Society Center for Global Education) By David Lee Former NKR Intern Linguistic differences between the two Koreas...
David Lee
Parallel Deal with North Korea? Lessons from Ukraine
On April 27, 2018, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in signed the “Panmunjom Declaration for Peace,...
Junijiro Shida
North Korean Economy under US-North Korea Negotiations and Economic Sanctions
Introduction The "US-North Korean summit meeting" was held on June 12, 2018, and the situation on the Korean peninsula began to move...
Yuhei OGAWA, Professor Emeritus
The Value of Human Exchange and North Korea
The diplomatic detente between the United States and North Korea can be seen as a potential new path forward for the long-time...
Nate Kerkhoff, NKR Intern
A Mood of Reconciliation around North Korea: No Change to be Seen in the Foreseeable Future
After all the excitement around the historical summit between North Korea and the United States that took place in Singapore on June...
Ryo Sahashi
A False Sense of Status: North Korean Migrants in South Korean Media Frames
As North Korean defectors and migrants evoke both alarm and sympathy from people worldwide, questions emerge as to the role that popular...
Tashia Shupert
North Korean Market Women as a Part of Larger Korean Women’s History
Kim Ki-Chang, Quiet Listening, 1934 Research on women in North Korea has recently become a hot topic. As many readers will know, this is...
Erin Jones Sauers, NKR Intern
