Korea, North

On a frozen day in December, 1950, as the Korean War raged below him, Jesse Brown crash landed on a North Korean mountainside. A few minutes later, Tom Hudner followed…

Starting on October 20, 2015, a group of South Koreans will have the chance to cross the DMZ to meet with brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, and other family members that…

October 2015 will mark 25 years since the official reunification of East and West Germany. Meanwhile, the Korean Peninsula remains divided. South Korean President Park Geun-Hye has referenced Germany many…

The Eugene Bell Foundation has been working in the DPRK for 20 years. Now they focus on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a deadly disease that is incredibly expensive and time-consuming to…

By Lisa Ji Computer science majors may have a larger role to play in promoting socio-political changes in North Korea than one may suspect. On August 2nd, computer programmers and human rights advocates gathered together in San Francisco, to discover new ways of providing information to and from the highly reclusive country, North Korea. In…

By Troy Stangarone On July 3-4 Park Geun-hye and Xi Jinping are set to hold their second summit meeting in little over a year and their fifth meeting overall since coming to office in their respective countries. While the North Korean nuclear issue is expected to be front and center at the summit, a series…

By Clare Hubbard North Korea appears to have no qualms with American movies depicting their army attacking the United States but now that the tables are turned with the upcoming release of the The Interview, Kim Jong-un is furious. The Interview, starring James Franco and Seth Rogan, features two celebrity journalists who land an interview…

By Kenneth Lee Sixty years ago, virtually no one knew of Korea and the few that did would have described it as a war-ravaged backwater of a country. Now, Korea is slowly becoming recognized as a modern and prosperous country.  Companies like Samsung and Hyundai are now household names in the West; while Korea’s accomplishments…

Please join KEI for a discussion on North Korea’s potential incorporation of AI into its cyber arsenal.