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.
Ryoo served as unification minister during a tumultuous time for inter-Korean relations and routinely pushed for talks
Detainees to be released will include those "convicted of crimes against the country and the people"
South Korea's unification ministry laid out its logic on balloon launch crackdowns during a government press tour
Plans revealed in a multi-prong South Korean military modernization blueprint document covering 2021 to 2025
Alejandro Cao de Benos of the Korea Friendship Association allegedly brokered payments for a North Korean firm
Trump reiterates argument that U.S. would have gone to war with North Korea had he not won 2016 election
Syria allegedly invited hundreds of North Korean migrant workers as the two countries publicly established closer ties
Despite sanctions and the COVID-19 global pandemic, North Korea's imprint on Dandong was easy to see in July 2020
Train cargo includes goods covered in blue tarpaulins while the border bridge appears to be undergoing maintenance
The fines follow a flurry of Singaporean court decisions related to illegal luxury goods exports to the DPRK
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