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More articles by 'Andrei Lankov'
The Trump-Moon summit: How the two leaders avoided disaster
Last week's summit between the two Presidents largely avoided the difficult topics
July 2, 2017
A brief history of North Korean laborers in Russia
For many workers, a trip abroad has been a blessing, not a punishment
June 30, 2017
Why North Korea’s dreams of becoming a tourism hotspot were always doomed
The Warmbier case is the latest disaster in a long-failing project
June 19, 2017
Will Moon Jae-in be able to implement “Sunshine 2.0”?
Chances for a full-scale revival of the Sunshine Policy do not look good
June 6, 2017
How North Korea’s electricity supply became one of the world’s worst
How the DPRK went from producing 85% of all electricity in Korea to regular blackouts
May 31, 2017
Why Trump making North Korea his “first priority” isn’t a good thing
Trump's obsession with the DPRK will only deepen the humiliation when his efforts inevitably fail
May 24, 2017
The fish-trading young pioneers of North Korea’s market economy
How "running traders" during the 1990s laid the groundwork for the DPRK's fledging private markets
May 22, 2017
North Korean defectors in the South: A model for unification?
The lives of refugees show that unification will not be easy or cheap
May 8, 2017
On the Great Leader’s Secret Service: North Korea’s intelligence agencies
A brief history of North Korea's spy bureaucracies - and how centralization has changed them
May 1, 2017
What we should make of current tensions on the Korean peninsula
The rhetoric may have you believe we are on the brink of war - but we've seen this all before
April 19, 2017
