Category: Opinion & Analysis

Every country has its own traditions, history, and way of doing things. In North Korea, they call this “our way.” The emotions people feel about...

Like a surgeon who recommends a heart transplant, when a politician says South Korea should change its core national objective, people need to trust him...

The most cited difference between countries that are socialist or capitalist is the extent to which individual citizens are able to own the means of...

The North Korean regime appears to be making an effort to induce foreign business but, given international sanctions over its rogue nuclear weapons program and...

Could South Korea’s new unification policy unleash a flood of defections and undermine the regime of Kim Jong-un? While some defectors are critical of the...

When Kim Jong-un replaced his finance minister at the end of last month, flagging “obstacles to economic development,” the rumor mill went into top gear....

During a visit to a modern defense industry factory on July 2,  Kim Jong-un behaved in a way that was a departure from the usual...

Like many people, I was captivated by Steve Jobs when he famously said during his 2005 Stanford University commencement speech, “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” I...

Kim Jong-un is trying to shift food production over from corn over to rice, wheat, and barley, and the party’s daily rodong sinmun is reporting,...

Suppression comes in many forms. There is suppression of association, suppression of travel, and suppression of speech. But of these, the most pervasive form of...

The ruling Workers' Party emblem of North Korea is different from other communist parties in that it includes a brush alongside the hammer and sickle...

Having grown up in North Korea where the media is so uniformly one-sided that we hesitate to call the stories in them “news,” I was...

Friendly Parent. This is the title of that new song in North Korea that is going viral. How warm and familiar they are, those words,...