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January 10, 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

Ryoo Kihl-jae, former South Korean unification minister, dies at 61

Ryoo served as unification minister during a tumultuous time for inter-Korean relations and routinely pushed for talks

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 17, 2020
News

North Korean prisoner amnesty to begin in September: State media

Detainees to be released will include those "convicted of crimes against the country and the people"

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 16, 2020
News

Seoul won’t rule out action against radio stations broadcasting into North Korea

South Korea's unification ministry laid out its logic on balloon launch crackdowns during a government press tour

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 11, 2020
News

South Korea to develop Iron Dome-style artillery interceptor system for defense

Plans revealed in a multi-prong South Korean military modernization blueprint document covering 2021 to 2025

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 10, 2020
News

Spanish aristocrat behind a North Korea sympathizer group violated UN sanctions

Alejandro Cao de Benos of the Korea Friendship Association allegedly brokered payments for a North Korean firm

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 10, 2020
News

If Trump wins election, U.S. will make a deal ‘very quickly’ with North Korea

Trump reiterates argument that U.S. would have gone to war with North Korea had he not won 2016 election

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 7, 2020
News

UN: Syria invited at least 800 North Koreans to work in military, construction

Syria allegedly invited hundreds of North Korean migrant workers as the two countries publicly established closer ties

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 6, 2020
Analysis

Photos: Shops, restaurants and Sinuiju port – a view from Dandong in July

Despite sanctions and the COVID-19 global pandemic, North Korea's imprint on Dandong was easy to see in July 2020

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 5, 2020
News

VIDEO: Despite COVID-19 fears, train delivers cargo across China-DPRK border

Train cargo includes goods covered in blue tarpaulins while the border bridge appears to be undergoing maintenance

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollAugust 3, 2020
News

Singaporean resident fined for shipping luxury goods to North Korea

The fines follow a flurry of Singaporean court decisions related to illegal luxury goods exports to the DPRK

Chad O'CarrollChad O'CarrollJuly 29, 2020
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