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Chad O'Carroll

Chad O'Carroll

Chad O'Carroll is the founder of NK News/NK Pro and related holding company Korea Risk Group. In addition to being the group's CEO, O'Carroll is a frequent writer and commentator about the Koreas, having written about the two nations since 2010. He has visited the DPRK multiple times, worked and lived in Washington, D.C. with a focus on peninsula issues, and lived in the ROK since 2016.

News

Spanish aristocrat behind a North Korea sympathizer group violated UN sanctions

Alejandro Cao de Benos of the Korea Friendship Association allegedly brokered payments for a North Korean firm

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 10, 2020
News

If Trump wins election, U.S. will make a deal ‘very quickly’ with North Korea

Trump reiterates argument that U.S. would have gone to war with North Korea had he not won 2016 election

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 7, 2020
News

UN: Syria invited at least 800 North Koreans to work in military, construction

Syria allegedly invited hundreds of North Korean migrant workers as the two countries publicly established closer ties

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 6, 2020
News

Singaporean resident fined for shipping luxury goods to North Korea

The fines follow a flurry of Singaporean court decisions related to illegal luxury goods exports to the DPRK

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJuly 29, 2020
Features

The strange reason North Korean email addresses are designed to fail

North Korean factories and service providers increasingly embrace the web, but emails remain a major business setback

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJuly 28, 2020
News

North Korea thanks ASEAN for supporting dialogue to achieve peace on peninsula

Remarks come after U.S. side reiterates support for the full denuclearization of Korean peninsula

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJuly 27, 2020
Border Controls

Tour operators believe North Korea won’t open until sometime in 2021

Practitioners from the travel industry speculate that the border could reopen sometime between 2021 and 2022

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJuly 22, 2020
COVID-19

UN agencies unable to leave Pyongyang, creating unprecedented obstacles

Foreign workers at UN agencies in the capital unable to leave the country due to COVID-19 measures enacted in February

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJuly 19, 2020
Analysis

Missed diplomatic opportunity? South Korea’s unilateral North Korea sanctions

Seoul's "May 24" measures remain in place, despite Moon's efforts to improve ties

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJuly 10, 2020
COVID-19

Kim Jong Un reappears at Politburo meeting on COVID-19

North Korean officials criticized for lax attitude as Kim urges strengthening coronavirus response measures

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