Chad O'Carroll | NK News
July 17, 2024

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Chad O’Carroll

Chad O'Carroll is the founder of NK News/NK Pro and related holding company Korea Risk Group. In addition to being the group's CEO, O'Carroll is a frequent writer and commentator about the Koreas, having written about the two nations since 2010. He has visited the DPRK multiple times, worked and lived in Washington, D.C. with a focus on peninsula issues, and lived in the ROK since 2016.

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UN: Syria invited at least 800 North Koreans to work in military, construction

UN: Syria invited at least 800 North Koreans to work in military, construction

Syria allegedly invited hundreds of North Korean migrant workers as the two countries publicly established closer ties

UN: Syria invited at least 800 North Koreans to work in military, construction
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll August 6, 2020
Photos: Shops, restaurants and Sinuiju port – a view from Dandong in July
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Photos: Shops, restaurants and Sinuiju port – a view from Dandong in July

Despite sanctions and the COVID-19 global pandemic, North Korea's imprint on Dandong was easy to see in July 2020

Photos: Shops, restaurants and Sinuiju port – a view from Dandong in July
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll August 5, 2020
VIDEO: Despite COVID-19 fears, train delivers cargo across China-DPRK border
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VIDEO: Despite COVID-19 fears, train delivers cargo across China-DPRK border

Train cargo includes goods covered in blue tarpaulins while the border bridge appears to be undergoing maintenance

VIDEO: Despite COVID-19 fears, train delivers cargo across China-DPRK border
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll August 3, 2020
Singaporean resident fined for shipping luxury goods to North Korea

Singaporean resident fined for shipping luxury goods to North Korea

The fines follow a flurry of Singaporean court decisions related to illegal luxury goods exports to the DPRK

Singaporean resident fined for shipping luxury goods to North Korea
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll July 29, 2020
The strange reason North Korean email addresses are designed to fail

The strange reason North Korean email addresses are designed to fail

North Korean factories and service providers increasingly embrace the web, but emails remain a major business setback

The strange reason North Korean email addresses are designed to fail
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll July 28, 2020
North Korea thanks ASEAN for supporting dialogue to achieve peace on peninsula

North Korea thanks ASEAN for supporting dialogue to achieve peace on peninsula

Remarks come after U.S. side reiterates support for the full denuclearization of Korean peninsula

North Korea thanks ASEAN for supporting dialogue to achieve peace on peninsula
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll July 27, 2020
COVID-19 in Kaesong? What to make of North Korea’s suspicion of a viral presence
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COVID-19 in Kaesong? What to make of North Korea’s suspicion of a viral presence

Report on suspected case marks a turning point in North Korea's approach to virus

COVID-19 in Kaesong? What to make of North Korea’s suspicion of a viral presence
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll July 26, 2020
Tour operators believe North Korea won’t open until sometime in 2021

Tour operators believe North Korea won’t open until sometime in 2021

Practitioners from the travel industry speculate that the border could reopen sometime between 2021 and 2022

Tour operators believe North Korea won’t open until sometime in 2021
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll July 22, 2020
Why North Korea may have tabled its campaign to ramp up inter-Korean tensions
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Why North Korea may have tabled its campaign to ramp up inter-Korean tensions

Absence of an inter-Korean CMC agenda item suggests that Pyongyang is giving anti-South Korea plans a deep freeze

Why North Korea may have tabled its campaign to ramp up inter-Korean tensions
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll July 21, 2020
UN agencies unable to leave Pyongyang, creating unprecedented obstacles

UN agencies unable to leave Pyongyang, creating unprecedented obstacles

Foreign workers at UN agencies in the capital unable to leave the country due to COVID-19 measures enacted in February

UN agencies unable to leave Pyongyang, creating unprecedented obstacles
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll July 19, 2020
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