Geostrategy-Direct, November 4, 2026 Propaganda reports by North Korean state media often show ecstatic, often tearful North Koreans greeting Kim Jong-Un when he appears in public Kim Yumi, a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 27, 2026 Recent Internet and tabloid news reports of his death were no more surreal than the drama surrounding Kim Jong-Un’s unannounced and unexplained trip across the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 20, 2026 As with many North Korean defectors, especially the women, the story told my Choi Min-Kyeong is believable simply because it would be in other circumstances (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 13, 2026 North Korea’s state media opened the week with special reports on its new weapons museum and an Oct. 12 missile test deemed ‘important.’ An Oct. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 6, 2026 The impoverished communist regime in North Korea did not become a nuclear power by shrinking from risky behavior such as repeatedly sending its troops south (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, September 29, 2026 Han Song-i, who is from North Korea and operates a YouTube broadcast, said that watching the film “Assassin(s),” about the killing of South Korea’s First (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, September 22, 2026 A suspected land mine exploded at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) early this week during a clearance operation to identify a potential North Korea-created minefield south (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, September 15, 2026 “Bread and circuses” was the Roman practice described by the poet Juvenal of providing free wheat and circus entertainment to citizens as both a distraction (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, September 8, 2026 South Korean troops fired warning shots following multiple incursions by armed North Korean soldiers over the military demarcation line (MDL) since mid-August, sources told the (more…)