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.
Practitioners from the travel industry speculate that the border could reopen sometime between 2021 and 2022
Absence of an inter-Korean CMC agenda item suggests that Pyongyang is giving anti-South Korea plans a deep freeze
Foreign workers at UN agencies in the capital unable to leave the country due to COVID-19 measures enacted in February
Seoul's "May 24" measures remain in place, despite Moon's efforts to improve ties
Analysis suggests that the DPRK is likely trying to minimize the spread of existing outbreaks
North Korean officials criticized for lax attitude as Kim urges strengthening coronavirus response measures
Convicted of espionage and effectively abandoned by Seoul, it's unclear whether any will ever return home
Data showed an unprecedentedly low number of Kim Jong Un appearances over the past three months
Pyongyang Unbangwan is one of at least two DPRK-linked eateries operating in the Chinese capital city
Despite recent inter-Korean tensions, Voice of Martyrs conducts discrete balloon launch adjacent to inter-Korean border
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