Twenty Years a-Stagnating—The Lost Opportunity of Britain’s Relationship With the DPRK
It has been twenty years since Britain and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed to establish diplomatic relations.[1]…
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The Many Faces of Chairman Kim Jong Un
At the recent December 2019 plenum, Chairman Kim, rather than giving his traditional New Year’s speech, outlined a different strategy…
Byungjin vs the Sanctions Regime: Which Works Better?
While the North Korean nuclear problem has long been at the center of discourse concerning the Korean peninsula, the recent…
Details, Details: History Lessons from Negotiating with North Korea
It’s not easy to predict the future. It shouldn’t be so difficult to understand the past, certainly not the past…