North Korea Briefing
38 North’s North Korea Briefing is a quarterly report analyzing North Korea’s internal dynamics.
The impact of North Korea’s actions is increasingly felt far beyond its borders as it defies political and economic norms and challenges regional and global security. However, the opaque nature of the country and regime makes it one of the most difficult intelligence targets to assess. Perhaps for this reason, discussions about North Korea often center around its foreign relations and prospects for engagement, without delving deeper into key factors that shape the leadership’s current and future intentions on such issues.
This series aims to fill in some of that void by analyzing North Korean state-run media’s rhetoric and signaling across five key issue areas: politics, leadership, the economy, weapons of mass destruction, and foreign policy (including inter-Korean relations).
We hope this provides useful insights into the various domestic factors that reflect or feed into the regime’s strategic calculus to enhance public discourse on this important intelligence challenge.
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