A big problem with analysis of North Korea is that it emphasizes security, particularly from the perspective of the United States, a British academic told NK News.

This means that important aspects of the scholarship on the North are neglected, and that mistaken predictions, particularly of the North’s impending collapse, are all too common.

Hazel Smith, professor of Resilience and Security at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, recently finished her fifth stint in the U.S. in the past 20 years. In all but one of these experiences, she had come to the U.S. because her North Korean expertise