Dr. Stephan Haggard and Luke Herman look at recent political meetings in Pyongyang and discuss potential ramifications. [...]

Luxury hotel operators Kempinski have told NK NEWS that plans to open rooms at the 105 floor Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang have been put on hold because of "market conditions" in North Korea. [...]

Why can't North Korea reform? Charles Park argues that Pyongyang is stuck in a perpetual limbo between reform and no reform. [...]

Ever wondered how sex, contraception, and dealing with impotence works in North Korea? Felix Abt, a Swiss businessman who spent seven years living in the country, knows the answer. [...]

The owner of a Polish corporation is owed over one million dollars by the North Korean embassy in Warsaw after diplomats there have refused to payback loans for a 2005 refurbishment of their offices. [...]

If North Korea doesn't overhaul its rusty old Soviet fleet, they're going to have to cease dealing with China all together. [...]

Meet Felix Abt, the Swiss man who lived and worked in North Korea for seven years. What was daily life like for a foreigner living in the most isolated nation on earth? [...]

This week Jae Young explains how she survived on the North Korean farm where back breaking work all year-round was the only way to get by. [...]

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Google boss Eric Schmidt have returned from Pyongyang empty handed after wrapping up a "private humanitarian mission" that had hoped to secure the release of detained U.S. citizen, Kenneth Bae. [...]

Divided Ireland shares many similarities with divided Korea. Both are partitioned countries, have an unsure relationship with their former colonial masters, and also enjoyed a period of rapid expansion. Might Ireland provide some lessons to the Koreas? [...]