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Jeongmin Kim

Jeongmin Kim

Jeongmin Kim is Executive Director at Korea Risk Group, based in Seoul. She covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.

News

Kim Jong Un fires economic leader a month after appointing him

The ruling party’s economic department director replaced, foreign affairs officials promoted

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 12, 2021
News

Kim Jong Un demands more legal control over North Korea’s struggling economy

Kim also called for more ambitious production goals on the third day of the country’s latest party plenum

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 10, 2021
Interviews

‘I didn’t even get to say goodbye’: South Koreans remember Kaesong’s sudden end

Five years ago, the Kaesong Industrial Complex shut down and sent thousands of North and South Koreans packing

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 10, 2021
News

Seoul’s new foreign minister makes first speech on ‘difficult’ North Korea issue

Chung Eui-yong says that coordinating with Washington on future denuclearization talks can be “fairly easily done”

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 9, 2021
News

North Korea threatens to ‘thoroughly punish’ any country that provokes it

State media claims on military foundation day that North Korea has capabilities to fight any kind of war

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 8, 2021
News

Kim Jong Un still willing to denuclearize: South Korean foreign minister nominee

Chung Eui-yong says North Korean military parades just aiming to sustain negotiation leverage

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 5, 2021
News

Biden and Moon promise to work closely on North Korean denuclearization

The U.S. and South Korean presidents vow to strengthen the alliance in their first phone call since Biden's inauguration

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 4, 2021
News

North Korea is an opportunity for US-China cooperation, top Seoul official says

Unification minister Lee In-young calls for sanctions flexibility and Pyongyang to reconsider inter-Korean projects

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 3, 2021
News

US to spend $4 million on projects targeting North Korean weapons trade

U.S. State Department also announced $4 million grant for illicit WMD and ballistic missiles nonproliferation in general

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimFebruary 1, 2021
News

Kim Jong Un’s wife has been missing from the public eye for more than a year

Experts say that Ri Sol Ju was last seen in state media on Jan. 26, 2020

Jeongmin KimJeongmin KimJanuary 28, 2021
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