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January 09, 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

Don’t expect borders to reopen until COVID-19 ends, DPRK foreign ministry says

North Korea tells remaining foreign missions they should leave soon, as no relief for staff rotations is planned

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollDecember 18, 2020
Analysis

North Korea wants an EU embassy, but France and Belgium won’t let that happen

Despite Pyongyang’s wishes, Paris and Brussels are preventing it from cementing diplomatic relations agreed to in 2001

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollDecember 16, 2020
News

Singaporean company director jailed for selling alcohol to North Korea

Director of company sanctioned by Treasury is jailed for two months, wife charged with financial penalty

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollDecember 14, 2020
COVID-19

‘Don’t play with snow’: North Korea warns foreigners ahead of a COVID-19 winter

Requirement part of "ultra-level" anti-COVID-19 rules currently applied throughout North Korea

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollDecember 13, 2020
News

YouTube deletes North Korean state media channel featuring vlogger Un A

Deletion is latest in apparent YouTube campaign to remove North Korea-linked channels

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollDecember 11, 2020
News

Diplomats and aid workers exit North Korea, only two UN staff members remaining

The latest departure suggests that foreign humanitarian workers only have a skeletal presence in North Korea right now

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollDecember 2, 2020
News

Thirty aircraft spotted flying in light show formation in Chongjin, North Korea

A photo obtained by NK Pro suggests that North Korea was preparing for the "Day of Air Men" on Nov. 29

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollDecember 1, 2020
Analysis

Why the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist can’t inform North Korea policy

Targeted assassinations of top North Korean officials would be much harder for enemies to do inside DPRK territory

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollNovember 30, 2020
News

State Department offers $3 million for human rights projects in North Korea

Funding marks a 25% increase from the amount allocated for DPRK human rights projects in January this year

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollNovember 24, 2020
COVID-19

COVID-19 lockdowns are causing severe imported food shortages in Pyongyang

Sources say that imported food items are scarce in major Pyongyang stores, but rural areas are probably less impacted

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollNovember 19, 2020
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