April 25, 2024

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ethan Jewell

Ethan Jewell

Ethan Jewell is a Seoul-based correspondent for NK News focused on sanctions, trade and maritime issues. He previously worked as an investigations and intelligence specialist for Pinkerton Comprehensive Risk Management and as a research intern for the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies.

News

US to announce new sanctions in response to ICBM missile system tests: Official

New designations target Russian individuals and companies suspected of supporting DPRK weapons programs

Ethan JewellEthan JewellMarch 11, 2022
Analysis

Ruble to rubble: Fiscal freefall cuts into pockets of North Koreans in Russia

Experts say financial turmoil due to sanctions against Russia will squeeze DPRK laborers, who are unable to return home

Ethan JewellEthan JewellMarch 9, 2022
News

North Korea’s trade with Russia crashes spectacularly in 2021: Data

But expert says Russia’s growing isolation due to Ukraine invasion could lead to open violations of DPRK trade bans

Ethan JewellEthan JewellMarch 8, 2022
News

US crypto researcher who aided DPRK says he acted ‘in the interest of peace’

Lawyers for Virgil Griffith say he had borderline ‘obsession’ with DPRK as they petition for lenient sentence

Ethan JewellEthan JewellMarch 8, 2022
News

Ghost ship: North Korean fishing trawler presumed scrapped returns from the dead

DPRK television broadcast footage of Sam Chon Li 1 more than three years after it vanished from ship-tracking systems

Ethan JewellEthan JewellMarch 7, 2022
News

US Senators call for greater cryptocurrency regulation against ‘rogue’ states

Move reflects Washington’s growing ‘appetite’ to wrangle in novel fintech exploited by DPRK, expert says

Ethan JewellEthan JewellMarch 4, 2022
News

North Korea mostly to blame for growing human suffering — not sanctions: Report

Country’s virus controls compound long-running humanitarian crises, as NGOs anticipate bleak future for DPRK aid work

Ethan JewellEthan JewellMarch 2, 2022
News

Hong Kong companies paid $45 million for oil delivered to North Korea: Report

Evidence from UN Panel of Experts report ties payments to Taiwanese firm allegedly linked to major oil trader

Ethan JewellEthan JewellMarch 1, 2022
Analysis

New hotspots emerge for ship-to-ship oil transfers to North Korea: UN report

Foreign vessels are smuggling oil outside Nampho and off west coast, as DPRK’s pandemic controls prevent docking

Ethan JewellEthan JewellFebruary 25, 2022
News

Justice Department scraps Trump-era China program, expands focus to North Korea

US prosecutor says new policy will target DPRK cyber threats and ‘nefarious activity’ by ‘hostile’ states

Ethan JewellEthan JewellFebruary 24, 2022
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