NK News – an independently owned specialist North Korea focused news, information and data outlet – announced the launch of a major new international expert opinion survey series on Monday.

Drawing on the opinions of nearly 40 experts working on DPRK affairs, the survey will show the contemporary opinions of groups of leading American, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian DPRK specialists, as well as defector voices and the rarely vocal foreign residents of Pyongyang.

“This ongoing feature will include remarks on five separate issues from five leading experts per country, giving readers a a breadth of opinions on timely questions related to North Korea,” said