Geostrategy-Direct, August 6, 2024 Ri Il-Kyu, the highest-ranking official known to have defected from North Korea since 2016, in his first interview with an international broadcaster, told the BBC (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, July 23, 2024 North Korea, which has developed warheads capable of striking the U.S. and its allies in Asia, may attempt to exploit this capability and U.S. geopolitical (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, July 23, 2024 North Korean defectors in China and workers from the North toiling in Russia are increasingly having their mobile phones tracked by government entities requiring the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, July 16, 2024 The signing of guidelines to solidify and extend deterrence cooperation between South Korea and the United States “sets the stage for a readiness posture to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, July 9, 2024 China has long been North Korea’s only ally. That all changed when Russia invaded Ukraine. As the war dragged on, Russia was in need of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, July 2, 2024 North Korean defectors have testified that the Kim Jong-Un regime has been conducting public executions, mostly by firing squad, of North Koreans caught distributing South (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, June 25, 2024 By Richard Fisher In the year 2010 North Korea was correctly a pariah state, isolated by layers of sanctions from the United States, the United (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, June 18, 2024 In the run-up to the June 18 meeting in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the two countries had (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, June 11, 2024 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has significantly raised the number of his on-site inspections and other military-related public appearances at the same time he is (more…)
