Columns
Columns on the latest North Korea issues from analysts, academics and renowned experts. Views expressed by our columnists are exclusively the authors’ own.
“Human scum, mongrel dog”: North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong talks dirty
Was the First Sister’s puzzling outburst over leaflet launches really worth trashing her burgeoning global brand for?
Puppetry of the peninsula: the two Koreas and the pursuit of freedom
The use and abuse of the "puppet" insult in Korea flags up real issues. In a perilous world, what’s a small state to do?
Why Kim Jong Un’s health is a very big deal
The latest flurry of speculation highlights a very real, but too often neglected, aspect of North Korea risk
In her own write: Kim Yo Jong makes her mark
Kim Jong Un’s sister is now issuing her own commentaries in DPRK media. Is she being groomed as a potential successor?
What to expect next at Mount Kumgang after the coronavirus delay
The Wuhan virus outbreak has only postponed demolition - it remains to be seen what Seoul can salvage from the dispute
The Chairman regrets: parsing Kim Jong Un’s Busan no-show
Pyongyang’s rebuff sounds almost polite, for a change. What’s going on?
Party like it’s 1998: how South Korean tourism to Mount Kumgang got started
The story of how South Korea's leading dissident and a chaebol tycoon launched the historic inter-Korean project
Two Korean mountain jaunts: near but worlds apart
A veteran North Korea watcher recalls two formative hikes he wrote about in the 1980s, on opposite sides of the DMZ
Kim Jong Un’s Mount Kumgang bombshell: what’s at stake
A lapsed tourist joint venture is suddenly a site of discord — here's how the North Korean leader put Seoul on the spot
“Peace Economics”: cure, or chimera?
Unification has an economic upside, Moon says. But are his assumptions realistic?
