A high ranking KPA Vice Marshall has been sent to China by Kim Jong Un as a "special envoy" after leaving Pyongyang by plane a few hours ago, the KCNA reported this morning [...]

SEOUL — Experts acknowledged the need for sanctions against North Korea but disagreed on the efficacy and future of dialogue at a conference held in Seoul Tuesday. Victor Cha and Michael Green of the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) were talking about the future of North Korea with South Korean experts that included former [...]

Purged? Moved on? Fall Guy? Michael Madden, presents four key theories for yesterday's change in defense minister. [...]

North Korean media reported on May 5 that the country’s highest honor had been awarded to Ri Kyong Sim, a young policewoman whose normal job involves supervising traffic on the Pyongyang streets. But why did she receive such an award?  Long viewed as one of the main symbols of Pyongyang, North Korea’s traffic girls are [...]

A Pyongyang traffic warden has received a prestigious "DPRK Hero" award for "death-defyingly" protecting the leader in an "unexpected situation," a North Korean TV news broadcast reported yesterday. [...]

A change in the political climate in the United States played a role in the breakdown of development projects in the DPRK following the famine of the mid-1990s, a United Nations representative says. [...]

Kim Jong Un today reviewed a troop parade at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to mark the 81st birthday of the Korean People's Army (KPA). [...]

April 15, 2013 marks the 101 anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth. Brandon Gauthier looks back to the fateful day in 1912 when North Korea's future would forever change. [...]

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

Dr. Andrei Lankov, Leonid Petrov, and Michael Madden all take a look at potential causes and solutions to worsening tensions on the Korean peninsula [...]