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More articles by 'Andrei Lankov'
The Trump-Moon summit: How the two leaders avoided disaster
Last week's summit between the two Presidents largely avoided the difficult topics
A brief history of North Korean laborers in Russia
For many workers, a trip abroad has been a blessing, not a punishment
Why North Korea’s dreams of becoming a tourism hotspot were always doomed
The Warmbier case is the latest disaster in a long-failing project
Will Moon Jae-in be able to implement “Sunshine 2.0”?
Chances for a full-scale revival of the Sunshine Policy do not look good
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
