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February 06, 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.

Analysis

What Israel’s strikes on Hezbollah reveal about risks of preempting North Korea

Experts say US-ROK could replicate Israel’s success in part, but not without triggering massive nuclear retaliation

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 29, 2024
News

North Korean embassies cancel founding day events, citing flood relief efforts

Missions in Europe and Asia emphasize need to mobilize resources after floods recently displaced thousands, emails show

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 27, 2024
Analysis

Why North Korea has toned down its response to US-ROK summer exercises

Analysis shows Pyongyang has been less vocal about drills this year, perhaps due to floods, but it may not stay that way

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 26, 2024
Analysis

Travel insiders express doubts about North Korea tourism reopening in December

Skeptics cite logistical challenges of winter travel to remote Samjiyon, suggest neighbors likely to go first

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 21, 2024
North Korea News Podcast

Yoon’s new vision for unification with North Korea and US-ROK summer drills

Chad O’Carroll and Jeongmin Kim dissect the South Korean president’s Liberation Day speech and Ulchi Freedom Shield

Analysis

Yoonification: ROK president makes no room for Kim Jong Un in a unified Korea

Yoon’s call for unification under democracy makes North Korean regime change unspoken goal, aiming to divide its society

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 15, 2024
News

North Korea to reopen to international tourism in December, travel agencies say

DPRK will reportedly allow tourists to visit Samjiyon on China border, nearly 5 years after closing country due to COVID

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 14, 2024
News

North Korea slams op-ed by Biden officials after playing down election stakes

Criticism of administration’s ‘hostile policy’ signals Pyongyang may be open to dialogue if Trump returns, expert says

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 14, 2024
Investigations

North Korea expert, missing for months, detained in Switzerland for espionage

Investigation finds ex-UN official from Canada vanished due to rare arrest on suspicions of spying, likely for China

Chad O'CarrollChad O'Carroll | Ifang BremerAugust 8, 2024
News

North Korean restaurant in Mongolia still closed despite report on reopening

NK News finds Pyongyang Baek Hwa Restaurant empty and in state of disrepair amid sanctions on DPRK overseas labor

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJuly 30, 2024
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