KEI Communications Director Jenna Gibson, host of Korean Kontext, recently interviewed Bruce Klingner of the Heritage Foundation on North Korea’s recent Workers Party Congress, the first since 1980.
September, 1961 was not a happy time in South Korea, and parallels to today’s North Korea are uncanny.
The upcoming May 6th Congress of the Worker’s Party of (North) Korea is already a noteworthy event simply because it is happening at all. What might we expect from the May 6th Congress?
In anticipation of the disclosure of all 214,000 businesses in the Panama Papers next month, there are three ways this new information can help to strengthen efforts to pressure North Korea.
China surprised many Washington pundits by signing on in February to what looks like fairly tough trade sanctions on North Korea.
KEI Communications Director Jenna Gibson, host of Korean Kontext, recently interviewed Dr. Stephen Haggard of the University of California-San Diego on the North Korean economy, the role of black markets, and the potential impacts of new UN sanctions.
In the face of a North Korean missile volley protesting the recent passing of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2270, China has once again called for calm. This will undoubtedly anger some and lead many to question whether China’s resolve to earnestly and forcefully implement the sanctions is genuine.
On January 6 North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test and its second successful satellite launch on February 7, 2016. The following is a collection of the international response to these two actions.
When senior Chinese diplomat Wu Dawei left for North Korea in early February to persuade Kim to step down from his threat of launching a missile, not only did his entreaties fall on deaf ears, Kim also ordered the launch a day earlier so that it fell on that same day, the eve of the Lunar New Year.
With the passage of a new round of sanctions against North Korea, there is an expectation that Pyongyang will not go gracefully into negotiations over its weapons programs. How might Pyongyang respond to the new sanctions?