North Korea’s won has lost roughly four-fifths of its value against the dollar in two years, and its trade deficit with China ran near USD...

Data shows that 2025 GDP rose 1 percent above 2024, but a surge in the third quarter did not continue through the end of the year.

As 2025 draws to a close, reporting suggests that financial conditions may be stabilizing—but at levels radically worse than just two years ago.

The gravity, scale and nature of human rights violations in North Korea are without parallel in the contemporary world.

The Kim regime has weathered adversity before, but today’s convergence of inflation, fiscal opacity, and decay poses deeper, more structural challenges.

The U.S. and South Korean economies rebounded faster than expected in the second quarter this year, and the outlook for the remainder of 2025 is cautiously optimistic.