…North Korea has a surprisingly porous border. Unlike the Yalu River, which forms the longest part of the Chinese-North Korean frontier, the Tumen River is shallow and slow. Parts of…
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A Vital LiNK: How One Group Is Helping Change the Narrative on North Korea
…will bring liberty to North Korea, it’s not that we will liberate the North Koreans, it’s that we believe the North Korean people will achieve their liberty. We believe—I believe—that…
September Issue: A Case For Humanitarian Aid To North Korea
…in North Korea. (Austin is a native Oregonian.) DA: That’s true. There is. And we’ve brought North Koreans to Oregon, and we’ve taken a lot of Oregonians to North Korea….
Photographer Aram Pan Presents a Different Angle to North Korea
…North Korea in August 2013. Pan’s project, DPRK 360, focuses on engaging North Koreans in a positive, friendly and non-political manner. With every subsequent visit, Pan noticed that the North…
Why North Korea Matters
…Meanwhile, two American journalists, including one Korean American, were found guilty of “hostile acts” and illegal entry into North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. With North…
A Brilliant Rivalry: Victor Cha and David Kang
…Koreans in the South and I are not genetically any different from those in the North. It’s not like people in the North can’t do the same things; it’s just…
South Korea calls North Korea’s nuke test ‘fanatic recklessness’
…North Korea’s northeastern nuclear test site, the North said in its state-run media that a test had “finally examined and confirmed the structure and specific features of movement of (a)…
Trump, North Korea Trade Escalating Threats Of Fire
…Guam as a “beachhead” for a potential U.S. invasion of North Korea it needed to neutralize. It was unlikely the North’s threat was a direct response to Trump’s comments to…
July Issue: The North Korean Food Dilemma
…and how conditional should food aid be? Korea specialist David C. Kang provides an overview of the North Korean food aid quandary. How bad is the food situation in North…
Danny Lee, North Korean American
…Of the tens of thousands of North Korean refugees living in northern China, barely more than a hundred have fled to the United States. It’s in the U.S., though, that…
Pyeongchang Olympics Are Icy Path To Warmer Korean Relations
…a joint women’s ice hockey team with North Korea for the Pyeongchang Games. Other ideas: using a recently built North Korean ski resort as a training site and adding North…
Stories from Behind the Border
…of South Korean vocabulary differs from North Korean). When one of our hosts reaches for a toothpick on the table, the North Koreans don’t know what it is. When they…
April Issue: Reporting From Pyongyang
…international correspondents based in Pyongyang working alongside local reporters, photographers and cameramen. What can you tell us about your North Korean staff at the Pyongyang bureau? There are two North…
UN Takes Up North Korea After Latest Missile Launch
…from North Korea. North Korea’s weapons tests demonstrate that it can “turn the American empire into a sea in flames through sudden surprise attack from any region and area,” North…
US To Ban Americans From Traveling To North Korea
…coma while in North Korean custody. “Due to mounting concerns over the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea’s system of law enforcement, the secretary has authorized…
