Andrei Lankov is a Director at NK News and writes exclusively for the site as one of the world's leading authorities on North Korea. A graduate of Leningrad State University, he attended Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung University from 1984-5 - an experience you can read about here. In addition to his writing, he is also a Professor at Kookmin University.
Viewed in context, Pyongyang's elites live relatively humble existences
The nature of North Korean studies means researchers are often unsure what is true or false
With laws imported from the USSR, sex remains a culturally taboo topic
With Trump in the White House, the risk of conflict on the peninsula is higher than ever
How the promise of a socialist paradise turned into bitter disappointment
This week, James Clapper admitted something North Korean analysts have known for years
Great emigration driven by discrimination in Japan and belief in communism - but they were deceived
The strange history of Chongryon and the mass exodus to the DPRK
The book, which examines DPRK foreign policy in the Cold War, has come under fire for its sourcing
In the border city economic shift is underway - but little appears to change in the DPRK
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