Columns
Columns on the latest North Korea issues from analysts, academics and renowned experts. Views expressed by our columnists are exclusively the authors’ own.
Two Korean mountain jaunts: near but worlds apart
A veteran North Korea watcher recalls two formative hikes he wrote about in the 1980s, on opposite sides of the DMZ
Kim Jong Un’s Mount Kumgang bombshell: what’s at stake
A lapsed tourist joint venture is suddenly a site of discord — here's how the North Korean leader put Seoul on the spot
“Peace Economics”: cure, or chimera?
Unification has an economic upside, Moon says. But are his assumptions realistic?
“Peace Economics”: is Moon Jae-in taking the peace?
The ROK President thinks the DPRK is a potential economic boon. He is not the first such optimist
Grist to Pyongyang’s mill: Tokyo’s trade war with Seoul
North Korea will seek to gain from the fallout created by the feuding allies
Allies at odds: a new row roils South Korea and Japan
North Korea relishes its foes falling out. This time is epic, and ominous
Peace in Korea? So last year
2018’s diplomatic process has stalled, yet Trump and Moon are a duo in denial
Castles in the air: North Korea’s delusional economic “strategy”
Juche science, halting reform, and investment from – Russia? You jest
Why North Korea’s cold-shouldering the South is unfair – and unwise
Kim Jong Un will likely regret biting the hand that fed, and led
Deft diplomat: How Kim Jong Un tried to remake his international image
Seduce Seoul. Tempt Trump. Square China. Kim did it all, at Chollima speed
