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More articles by 'Andrei Lankov'
Lifestyles of the loyalists: How North Korea’s upper classes live
Viewed in context, Pyongyang's elites live relatively humble existences
Facts unknown: Navigating North Korea’s elephant in the dark
The nature of North Korean studies means researchers are often unsure what is true or false
Strictly business: The sex lives of North Koreans
With laws imported from the USSR, sex remains a culturally taboo topic
Trumped: What the new U.S. President will do about North Korea
With Trump in the White House, the risk of conflict on the peninsula is higher than ever
How the Zainichi Koreans adjusted to life in North Korea
How the promise of a socialist paradise turned into bitter disappointment
Is North Korean denuclearization really a “lost cause”?
This week, James Clapper admitted something North Korean analysts have known for years
Promised land? The Zainichi Korean exodus to North Korea
Great emigration driven by discrimination in Japan and belief in communism - but they were deceived
Why thousands of Japanese-Koreans left for new lives in North Korea
The strange history of Chongryon and the mass exodus to the DPRK
“Tyranny of the Weak”: The row engulfing North Korean studies
The book, which examines DPRK foreign policy in the Cold War, has come under fire for its sourcing
View from the bridge: Signs of change on the N.Korea-China border?
In the border city economic shift is underway - but little appears to change in the DPRK
