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Kim Jong Un returns from China visit praising Xi as North Korea seeks closer ties with Beijing - North Korea and China hail their ‘invincible unity’ during Kim’s visit even as Xi Jinping remains absen ...
News North Korea » Politics: North Korea's Kim makes unannounced visit to Chinese border city
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have arrived in the Chinese border city of Dandong, a government source in Seoul and South Korean media said on Saturday.
News North Korea » Politics: North Korea’s Secretive Prison Camps: Building The Case For Accountability
Estimates of North Korea’s political prison camp population vary widely—from 53,000–65,000 across four camps (Korea Institute for National Unification) to about 147,000 across six camps (Daily NK ...
News North Korea » Politics: What to make of China, North Korea's new cross-border bridge
Traffic across two newly opened bridges will offer a practical measure of how North Korea's relationships with China and Russia are evolving.
News North Korea » Politics: North Korea's calculations behind borderization
Last month, a landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the western front injured our soldiers. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.N. Command concluded that the cause was a landmine planted ...
News North Korea » Politics: North Korea and Iran: Do we have strategic coherence?
Restoring coherence requires Washington agreeing with Seoul on the end state, protection of readiness and diplomacy judged by verifiable results.
News North Korea » Politics: North Korea uses DMZ landmine blast to step up student military drills
Pyongyang is using the DMZ landmine explosion to justify weekly drills and anti-South Korea lectures for high school Youth Guards members.
News North Korea » Politics: Trump Courts North Korea’s Leader, but Might Need China to Reignite the Flame
President Trump has gotten no love back yet from Kim Jong-un. He could turn to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to help set up a summit when Mr. Xi visits Washington next week. By Edward Wong Edward Wong ...
News North Korea » Politics: North Korean Elites and Regime Weakness
North Koreans pay their respects before the 20 meter tall Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il statues at the center of the Mansu Hill Grand Monument located at Mansudae, Pyongyang, North Korea. Credit: ...
News North Korea » Politics: North Korea is opening its border — without freeing a single person
For 12 years, the bridge was there. But the road was not. In 2014, China and North Korea completed the approximately 2-mile New Amnok River Bridge connecting the two countries. China prepared the ...