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.
The victim’s death likely involved shoot-to-kill orders in place to stop COVID-19 from entering the DPRK. But what now?
North Korean shoot-to-kill orders, designed to protect DPRK from COVID-19, may be linked to official's death
Trump and Xi's overlooking of DPRK issue may create concern in Pyongyang, analyst says.
Blurry state media images show Kim Jong Un using Swiss sanitizer products in place of domestic DPRK alternatives
Officials accused of working with North Korea on a space vehicle launch, but details of the cooperation are vague
Singaporean director implicated in illegal luxury goods exports between 2010-2016
The Ananti Golf Resort was built in North Korea’s beautiful Mount Kumgang region — but it abruptly closed in 2008
Satellite imagery shows that the DPRK is gearing up storage units — possibly to show off massive, high-tech equipment
Precedent suggests that Pyongyang is likely to take wait-and-see posture and act later
Amid growing tensions in 2017, U.S. brushed up on plans to attack North Korea using nuclear weapons
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