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July 17, 2024

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Chad O'Carroll

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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North Korean TV uploads first HD footage, including archives of Kim Jong Il

Rare archive HD footage shows Kim Jong Il visiting TV studios

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollMarch 4, 2015
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North Korea to end anti-Ebola restrictions: Tour agency

Tourism to North Korea looks set to resume after four-month ban

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollMarch 2, 2015
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TV, radio better than balloons for reaching North Koreans: Amb. Robert King

U.S. Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues says radio, TV reaching up to third of North Koreans

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollFebruary 18, 2015
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Controversial N. Korean defector a ‘minor element’ of UN human rights report

Comments by defector don't impact the findings of the report, judge says

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollFebruary 17, 2015
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Younger N. Koreans increasingly sharing pictures, video between cellphones

Report says video and images, often influenced by S. Korean and Japanese culture, increasingly shared among younger generations

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJanuary 26, 2015
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Prominent pro-North Korea figure denounces KFA President Alejandro Cao de Benos

Profiteering is "absolutely outrageous" and behavior "completely unacceptable"

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJanuary 26, 2015
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Training North Korea’s tour guides: time for tourists to step up?

New volunteership opportunity lets visitors conduct tourism and language training

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJanuary 20, 2015
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N. Korea commits to ‘intl. standards’ on money laundering, financing of terror

Statement could be effort to ease ongoing financial sanctions, observers say

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJanuary 16, 2015
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China beefs up patrols of N. Korea border with citizen participation

Development comes following four murders of Chinese citizens at hands of N. Korean army deserter

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJanuary 16, 2015
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N.Korean airline Facebook page taken over by pro-ISIS hackers

Pro-ISIS hackers delete all content on Air Koryo Facebook page

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJanuary 14, 2015