A Glass Half-Empty: Kim Jong Un’s Economic Policies One Year After the 2019 Plenum Speech
In late December 2019, Kim Jong Un gave a speech at a Korean Workers’ Party Central Committee plenum session, which…
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Is Kim Jong Un Really Claiming Overall Leadership On The Korean Peninsula?
There is much excitement about a supposed new title recently bestowed on Kim Jong Un: a leader hardly lacking in…
The North Korean Parliamentary Session and Budget Report 2019: Signs of Economic Stagnation and an Open Claim to Leadership on the Korean Peninsula
On April 11, 2019, the first session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA, the DPRK’s Parliament) convened at the…
Chinese-North Korean Relations: Drawing the Right Historical Lessons
Starting in the mid-1970s, Pyongyang began reaching out to Washington to replace the Korean War armistice with a peace agreement.…