August 20, 2018
Leading experts analyze recent events and affairs involving North Korea
Analysis 17 August
The month of July certainly did not end quietly with respect to North Korea and its place in international relations. Over one month after the Singapore summit declaratio...
Analysis 16 August
The news this week that South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit Pyongyang in September for a third inter-Korean summit reasserted the prominent role of the two Kore...
Analysis 14 August
The Korea Customs Service's (KCS) admission that South Korean companies were importing smuggled North Korean coal and p...
Analysis 14 August
This analysis provides an overview of the most significant developments in the North Korean economy in July of this year. It surveys the state of affairs within the follo...
Analysis 13 August
North Korea remains a state isolated from the international economic system. Consequently, it lacks access to, or credib...
Analysis 10 August
On August 9, the DPRK foreign ministry published a press release in which it expressed discontent with the United States...
Analysis 10 August
After several turbulent years of bilateral Sino-DPRK relations, Beijing finally appears content with the direction of it...
Analysis 09 August
In recent months there has been a great deal of talk about the coming improvement of the situation in and around Korean ...
Analysis 07 August
As predicted by NK Pro analysis last month, July saw Kim Jong Un switch his focus from diplomatic affairs to more tradi...
Analysis 06 August
Until the mid-1980s, North Korea’s economy represented perhaps the most extreme attempt to implement a system of burea...
Analysis 03 August
When the late British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was asked how he would describe the greatest challenge facing a st...
Analysis 01 August
A recently released report from the Asan Institute for Policy Studies found that North Korea's oil imports were far in e...
Analysis 01 August
A lot can be learned from a cursory glance at the propaganda art that North Korean authorities choose to display across ...
Analysis 31 July
The slow-but-steady trickle of post-June 12 summit leaks continues out of the U.S. intelligence community. On Monday, t...
Analysis 27 July
Six months of official UN figures on North Korea's oil product imports show drastic reductions in volume, with shipments...
Analysis 26 July
Officially speaking, the United States policy of "maximum pressure" is still meant to be in full force, with the implica...
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