Columns
Columns on the latest North Korea issues from analysts, academics and renowned experts. Views expressed by our columnists are exclusively the authors’ own.
Kim’s construction project woes reflect his poor economic planning
The Supreme Leader is now scapegoating others for failing to meet his latest hospital project's unrealistic deadlines
Dialling up the volume: what is the Kims’ game?
North Korean rhetoric is just like a guitar solo: full of sound and fury, yet ultimately dreary and self-indulgent
Leaflets, schmeaflets: Pyongyang’s bogus pretext for escalating tensions
North Korea's purported motive for recent provocations doesn't stand up to scrutiny
“Human scum, mongrel dog”: North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong talks dirty
Was the First Sister’s puzzling outburst over leaflet launches really worth trashing her burgeoning global brand for?
Puppetry of the peninsula: the two Koreas and the pursuit of freedom
The use and abuse of the "puppet" insult in Korea flags up real issues. In a perilous world, what’s a small state to do?
Why Kim Jong Un’s health is a very big deal
The latest flurry of speculation highlights a very real, but too often neglected, aspect of North Korea risk
In her own write: Kim Yo Jong makes her mark
Kim Jong Un’s sister is now issuing her own commentaries in DPRK media. Is she being groomed as a potential successor?
What to expect next at Mount Kumgang after the coronavirus delay
The Wuhan virus outbreak has only postponed demolition - it remains to be seen what Seoul can salvage from the dispute
The Chairman regrets: parsing Kim Jong Un’s Busan no-show
Pyongyang’s rebuff sounds almost polite, for a change. What’s going on?
Party like it’s 1998: how South Korean tourism to Mount Kumgang got started
The story of how South Korea's leading dissident and a chaebol tycoon launched the historic inter-Korean project
