Geostrategy-Direct With the existential threat posed by the bizarre North Korean regime increasing with each passing day, assessments of scenarios for war on the Korean peninsula are getting fresh (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The suspension of coal exports to China was not the only thing North Korea lost after the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-Un. There have (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Even if it did not intend to place him in power in Pyongyang, China had regarded as a foil, and perhaps even preferred, the 45-year-old Kim Jong-Nam to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korea earlier this month test-fired a new mobile, medium-range ballistic missile said to be capable of evading interception. Footage released by the North’s state-owned Korean Central News (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Kim Jong-Un regime has sent out hundreds of security officers to monitor the activities of North Korean government employees and laborers and prevent them from defecting, a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The widening rift between South Korea and Japan is dangerous for the U.S. allies and is being cheered by a North Korean regime that has long been adept (more…)
North Korea’s human rights abuses are on a “gravity, scale and nature” that are unparalleled “in the contemporary world,” Human Rights Watch said. The advocacy group on Jan. 13 (more…)
The dissemination of outside information to the North Korean populace is the key to reunifying the two Koreas, the North’s ex-deputy ambassador to London, a recent defector, said. “The (more…)
Thae Yong-ho, the highest-ranking diplomat ever to defect from North Korea, is set to leave the protection of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service and enter South Korean society. And (more…)