Kim Il-sung’s long record of murder, kidnapping, and plunder in the decade before he came to power
Sign up here. When it comes to his crimes against the Korean people, the record of the North’s founding dictator, Kim Il-sung, is long and...
Illegal transfer of funds to North Korea and forcible repatriation of defectors: Will justice ever be served at the highest levels?
Sign up here. In 2024, when President Lee Jae-myung was leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), he was indicted over allegations...
What are they afraid of? Why are some of America’s leading experts on Korea scared of criticizing the South Korean government?
Sign up here. Something rather unusual - and frankly welcome - occurred in late April 2026: the rare shattering of a Washington, D.C., taboo. A group...
Is a purge or at least a crackdown in the offing in North Korea?
Even the best of the previous century's Kremlinologists who monitored trends in the former Soviet Union, and “China Hands” who followed developments in Communist China,...
The campaign to nominate Kim Jong-un for a Nobel Peace Prize
Until the arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat was nominated for and then shockingly awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, to the eternal infamy of the Nobel...
Never-ending repression: The continuous purges and ideological campaigns of North Korea and other communist regimes
The historiography of communist states often portrays them as featuring cyclical patterns of repression and liberalization, of murderous crackdowns followed by calm and normalcy. However,...
The threat of America’s isolationist faction and Korea’s autonomy faction to the U.S.-ROK alliance
For better or worse, whatever transpires in U.S.-ROK relations in 2026 and the remainder of the Trump administration will depend not only on decisions made...
On Kim Jong-un’s “two hostile enemy states” theory and de-emphasis on unification policy
For two years now, one of the most written about and discussed topics among Korea watchers, analysts of Asian security, and international affairs experts in...
Suppression of protests in Iran as viewed by pro-North Korean forces
Pro-North Korean forces in the U.S. have opposed any U.S. military action against Iran in light of the massacre of thousands of unarmed civilian protesters...
Outlook for 2026: Pro-North Korean and other far-left forces versus the U.S.-ROK alliance
Pro-North Korean and other far-left forces in the United States were in somewhat of a "continuation" mode in 2025. They continued their Congressional lobbying, agitation/propaganda,...
2025: A year of milestone anniversaries for Korea
The year 2025 saw some significant anniversaries for Korea, some of which were for the better, while others were for the worse. The best known...
Faking freedom of religion: “You can pray freely, but just so God alone can hear”
Defector and former South Korean lawmaker Ji Seong-ho has related an amusing story about an ROK delegation’s visit to North Korea. During the trip, the...
The two-faced tactics and time-tested tricks of tyrants
The three dictatorships of the last century which diabolically mastered the black arts of political trickery and diplomatic two-faced tactics - Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia,...
Noblesse Oblige and Sunshine 4.0 — FDR and Stalin, Lee Jae-myung and Kim Jong-un
The French term "noblesse oblige," which literally translates as "nobility obligates," is defined in various English language dictionaries as the notion that certain people having...
Pro-North Korean speakers in South Korea oppose capitalism and the US alliance
The greatest speeches of the world's foremost political orators have often been collected in books, and many are also featured online, in some cases in...
Venezuela’s “Foreign Legion” in South Korea
North Korea has had ties with Venezuela since 1965, but in the last two decades since the coming to power of dictator Hugo Chavez and...
The appeal of “Innocents’ Clubs”: Why some good people associate with disreputable groups that have awful positions
It would take a competent political psychologist to provide a comprehensive, professional explanation as to why there have always been decent people who voluntarily associate...
Some myths regarding “demonization” of the North Korean regime, comedic mockery of Its dictator, and “dehumanization” of the people
Suzanne Labin was a French intellectual, originally of socialist views, who came to be a critic of totalitarian communist regimes. She authored a book entitled...