P eople have been predicting the collapse of North Korea’s communist dictatorship since 1948, when Kim Il Sung seized p ...
Two brothers spent a decade plotting their escape from North Korea – an audacious plan conceived by their late father, whose ashes they carried as they crept toward a boat moored in the shadows. There ...
The guns fell silent in the Korean War seven decades ago, but the hostilities never truly ended. Today, North Korea’s secretive dictator oversees an isolated society and command economy, portraying ...
The emergence of an “Axis of Upheaval” consisting of revisionist states—which, to borrow language from former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, seek to “alter the foundational principles of the ...
The 75th anniversary of the Korean Workers Party in October 2020 was not the festive affair that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wanted it to be. Despite the fireworks, military flyover, and ...
The mood was tense in the White House Cabinet room on that summer day, almost exactly 31 years ago. President Bill Clinton and his National Security Council were about to be briefed by Defense ...
In the summer of 2017, the United States learned a humbling lesson. For years, American intelligence agencies had assessed that North Korea would need several more years—until 2020 or even 2022—before ...