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More articles by 'Andrei Lankov'
How North Korea’s electricity supply became one of the world’s worst
How the DPRK went from producing 85% of all electricity in Korea to regular blackouts
Why Trump making North Korea his “first priority” isn’t a good thing
Trump's obsession with the DPRK will only deepen the humiliation when his efforts inevitably fail
The fish-trading young pioneers of North Korea’s market economy
How "running traders" during the 1990s laid the groundwork for the DPRK's fledging private markets
North Korean defectors in the South: A model for unification?
The lives of refugees show that unification will not be easy or cheap
On the Great Leader’s Secret Service: North Korea’s intelligence agencies
A brief history of North Korea's spy bureaucracies - and how centralization has changed them
What we should make of current tensions on the Korean peninsula
The rhetoric may have you believe we are on the brink of war - but we've seen this all before
Who owns North Korea’s businesses?
While enterprises are owned by the state, private entrepreneurs usually run the show
Nikki Haley is wrong: North Korea is not “irrational”
Kim Jong Un sees himself - correctly, in some cases - as being surrounded by threats
Increased talk of “kinetic” action against N. Korea is deeply concerning
Armed confrontation on the Korean Peninsula is more likely than it's been in decades
Is revolution possible in North Korea?
A study of popular uprisings offers some insights into how Kim Jong Un could fall
