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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Newly updated court document includes North Korean testimony, photos and CCTV evidence
Explicit language surrounding the 'complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement (CVID)' of the DPRK excluded
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Court documents reveal at least one ROK national implicated in Madrid raid
Ahn’s lawyer maintains North Korea wants to assassinate his client accused of embassy break-in
Sung Kim will return to Jakarta to focus predominantly on leading the Indonesia embassy, sources tell NK News
Summit deliverables on North Korea will be music to Moon Jae-in’s ears, but risk management was the main priority
Amid pandemic, over two dozen attended Eid celebration at Rahman Mosque in Pyongyang
South Korea’s unification ministry publishes database of DPRK newspaper content online, though most content is missing
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