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January 04, 2025

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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.

News

Socialist-era rock band to perform in Pyongyang on Liberation Day anniversary

Group banned by former Yugoslavian authorities to perform two August concerts in North Korea

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJune 11, 2015
News

Fire breaks out at Pyongyang’s iconic Koryo hotel: source

Fire no longer burning, sources indicate

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJune 11, 2015
Analysis

Could Telco-In-A-Box help N. Koreans communicate with outside world?

New technology, combined with satellite internet and solar panels, could allow independent cell network

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollMay 28, 2015
News

WomenCrossDMZ took ‘boilerplate’ propaganda march in N. Korea: Observers

WomenCrossDMZ event hosted by North Korea 'for domestic propaganda reasons'

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollMay 26, 2015
News

N. Korean doctor and wife captured by Islamic State in Libya: local media

Pair were captured after returning from work at local hospital, local media says

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollMay 25, 2015
Analysis

Tourism to North Korea dropped 40% in 2014 – NK News survey

Tourism takes dive due to combination of factors caused by Pyongyang

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollMay 21, 2015
News

N. Korea claims long-held ability to miniaturize nukes

Expert suggests claim could be true, but that several key hurdles remain

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollMay 20, 2015
Analysis

North Korea’s million man army: potential peacekeeping force?

Could KPA go from threat to international security to contributor toward international peace?

Analysis

North Korea’s million man army: potential mercenary force?

Could KPA be used on large scale in Syria, small scale elsewhere as money-maker for North?

News

N. Korea arrests S. Korean for ‘illegally entering’ DPRK territory

NYU confirms South Korean national is student there, not currently enrolled

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollMay 2, 2015