2025

• Bermudez, Joseph, Ellen Kim, and Victor D. Cha. (2025). North Korea’s Sea-Based WMD Capability: The Second Leg of the Nuclear Triad. Bloomsbury Publishing.

• Chang, Kornel. (2025). A Fractured Liberation: Korea under US Occupation. Harvard University Press.

• Dannatt, Richard & Robert Lyman. (2025). Korea: War Without End. Osprey Publishing.

• Goldring, Edward & Peter Ward. (2025). Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond. Cambridge University Press.

• Tertitskiy, Fyodor. (2025). Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-Sung. Oxford University Press.

• Workman, Travis, Dong Hoon Kim, & Immanuel Kim. (Eds.). (2025). The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing.

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2024​​​​

• Cha, Victor. (2024). The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea. Columbia University Press.

• Cheong Seong-chang. (2024). 우리가 모르는 김정은 그의 정치와 전략 [The Kim Jong-un We Don’t Know: His Politics and Strategy]. Hanul Academy.

• Chung, Byung-Ho. (2024). Suffering and Smiling: Daily Life in North Korea. Bloomsbury Publishing.  

• Er, Lam Peng. (Ed.). (2024). Engaging North Korea. Routledge.

• Fenkl, Heinz Insu, and Bella Myong-wol Dalton-Fenkl. (2024). The Korean Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends. Thames & Hudson.

• Grzelczyk, Virginie. (2024). North Korea’s New Diplomacy: Challenging Political Isolation in the Twenty-First Century (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Hoo, Chiew-Ping, Shine Choi, and Brian Bridges. (Eds.). (2024). Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence. Routledge.

• Hutchinson, George A. (2024). North Korea’s Nuclear Decisions and Strategies: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Bomb. Routledge.

• Jacobsen, Annie. (2024). Nuclear War: A Scenario. Penguin Publishing Group.

• Kenneth, Quinones. (2024). The North Korea Nuclear Crisis, 1992-2002: A Diplomat's Undiplomatic Critic. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• Lai, Benjamin & Zhao Guoxing. (2024). Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950–53 (1): The North Korean People’s Army and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army. Osprey Publishing.

• Lee, Shin-Wha & Jagannath Panda. (Eds.). (2024). The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula: An Emerging Security Architecture. Routledge

• Lim, Hyun-Joo. (2024). North Korean Women and Defection: Human Rights Violations and Activism. Bristol University Press.

• Lim, Jae-Cheon. (2024). Power and the Elite in North Korea: Paektu and Kanbu. Routledge.

• Pardo, Ramon Pacheco. (2024). North Korea: Survival of a Political Dynasty. Agenda Publishing.

• Park, Hyoungah. (2024). North Korean Migrants in China: Whether Illegal Migrants, Refugees, or Human Trafficking Victims. Lexington Books.

• Park, Phillip H. (2024). History of Economic Management in North Korea: From Planned Economy to Socialist Enterprise System. Routledge.

• Schmid, Andre. (2024). North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965. University of California Press.

• Shim, Elizabeth. (2024). North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema: Simulation and Neoliberal Politics in the Two Koreas. Bloomsbury Publishing.

• Tashach, Avraham. (2024). The Farthest Place on Earth: North Korea - Truths and Myths From the Most Isolated Country in the World. Self-published. 

• Tertitskiy, Fyodor. (2024). The Forgotten Political Elites of North Korea: Woe to the Vanquished. Routledge.

• Thae, Yong-ho. (2024). Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider's Account of Life Among North Korea's Political Elite. Columbia University Press.

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2023​​​​

• Ayhan, Kadir Jun & Brendan Howe. (Eds.). (2023). Comprehensive Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula: Internal Dynamics in North Korea and South Korean Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore.

• Buzo, Adrian. (2023). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea. Routledge.

• Cha, Victor & Ramon Pacheco Pardo. (2023). Korea: A New History of South and North. Yale University Press.

• Dalton, Bronwen & Kyungja Jung. (2023). North Korea's Women-led Grassroots Capitalism. Routledge.

• Greitens, Sheena Chestnut. (2023). Politics of the North Korean Diaspora. Cambridge University Press.

• Han, Jongwoo. (2023). The Metamorphosis of U.S.-Korea Relations: The Korean Question Revisited. Lexington Books.

• Hecker, Siegfried S. & Serbin, Elliot A. (2023). Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program. Stanford University Press.

• Howell, Edward. (2023). North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays. Oxford University Press.

• Hwang, Jihwan. (2023). North Korea, Nuclear Risk-Taking, and the United States: Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un. Lexington Books.

• Kim, Suzy. (2023). Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War. Cornell University Press.

• Kim, Tae-hyok and Nicole Kim Rogers. (2023). Beyond the Border: A Korean’s Journey Between the North and South. Self-published.

• Kwon, Jun Taek, & Weiqi Zhang. (Eds.) 2023. Strategies of Survival: North Korean Foreign Policy under Kim Jong-Un. Lexington Books.

• Lee, Su-Mi & Terence Roehrig. (Eds.). (2023). Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea: Cohesion and Disarray. State University of New York Press.

• Lee, Sung-Yoon. (2023). The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jung, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea. Macmillan.

• Lee, Yong-Shik. (2023). Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia. Anthem Press.

• Lim, Sojin. (2023). International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea. Routledge.

• Pandey, Hina. (2023). Nuclear Conundrum of Iran and North Korea 'From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise?'. Routledge. 

• Tertitskiy, Fyodor. (2023). Soviet-North Korean Relations During the Cold War: Unruly Offspring. Routledge.

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2022​​

• Carlin, Robert & Chung-in Moon. (2022). Understanding Kim Jong-un's North Korea: Regime Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement. Lexington Books.

• Chiang, Min-Hua. (2022). The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamic. Lynne Rienner.

• Han, Jongwoo. (2022). The Metamorphosis of U.S.-Korea Relations: The Korean Question Revisited. Lexington Books.

• He, Baogang & David Hundt & Chengxin Pan. (2022). China and Human Rights in North Korea: Debating a “Developmental Approach” in Northeast Asia. Routledge.

• Jackson, Andrew David. (2022). The Two Koreas and their Global Engagements. Palgrave.

• Jung, Tae Yong & Sung Jin Kang (Eds.). (2022). Development Prospects for North Korea. Routledge.

• King, Robert R. & Gi-Wook Shin. (2022). The North Korean Conundrum: Balancing Human Rights and Nuclear Security. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

• Liu, Jinlong. (2022). Crying Forests: Political Ecology in the DPRK. Springer. 

• Park, Jiyun & Seh-Lynn Chai. Baldwin-Beneich, Sarah (trans.). (2022). The Hard Road Out: Escaping North Korea. Harper North.

• Park, Joowon. (2022). Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process. University of California Press.

• Shin, Haeran. (Ed.). (2022). North Korean Defectors in Diaspora: Identities, Mobilities, and Resettlements. Lexington.

• Stallard, Katie. (2022). Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea. OUP.

• Theroux, Marcell. (2022). The Sorcerer of Pyongyang. Corsair. 

• Tudor, Daniel. (2022). Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation. Tuttle. 

• White, Geoff. (2022). The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War. Penguin.​

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