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More articles by 'Aidan Foster-Carter'
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
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
