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Colin Zwirko

Colin Zwirko

Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. He joined the company in 2018 after receiving a master's degree in international security and foreign policy from South Korea's Yonsei University. Follow him on Bluesky / Twitter.

News

Two years past deadline, major North Korean beach resort inches towards opening

Construction worker camps were removed and trucks moved around the sprawling beach resort, satellite imagery shows

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 25, 2021
News

North Korea kicks off plan to build 10,000 ‘modern flats’ in Pyongyang this year

Kim Jong Un said the project will fix the “housing problem” in the capital city “once and for all”

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 23, 2021
News

EU hits North Korea with human rights-related sanctions for the first time

Sanctions name heads of North Korea’s police for state-sponsored murder, torture and forced labor

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 22, 2021
News

Chinese president promises to work with North Korea to ‘preserve peace’

Xi Jinping delivered the message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un through a designated diplomat in Beijing

Colin ZwirkoColin Zwirko | Kelly KasulisMarch 22, 2021
News

Photos: North Korea fires back at US and South Korea with new propaganda poster

The new, anti-alliance poster was released after Kim Yo Jong slammed U.S.-South Korea military drills

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 18, 2021
News

North Korea blasts Malaysia over extradition order, says US will ‘pay due price’

Pyongyang vowed to cut diplomatic ties with Kuala Lumpur after a DPRK citizen received an extradition order to the US

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 18, 2021
News

North Korea calls Biden outreach a ‘cheap trick,’ vows to ignore future attempts

Top diplomat says North Korea will ignore US outreach until Washington “rolls back its hostile policy”

News

Kim Yo Jong slams US-South Korea military drills, warns of an ‘unseemly sleep’

The North Korean leader's sister took aim at both South Korea and the US as they conduct computerized military drills

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 15, 2021
News

Sluggish progress on key construction despite rare visits by DPRK leader

Homes built after storm may have stalled work on Kim’s favored chicken farm 

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 12, 2021
Analysis

Drawing the fine line between art and propaganda in North Korea

Artists express themselves through officially-sanctioned artwork despite strict rules, experts say

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 12, 2021
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