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July 18, 2024

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Colin Zwirko

Colin Zwirko

Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. He joined the company in 2018 after receiving a master's degree in international security and foreign policy from South Korea's Yonsei University. Follow him on Twitter.

News

Kim Jong Un warns North Korea of hardship, referencing deadly 1990s famine

Kim wants to wage a “more difficult Arduous March” — a term used to describe a historic famine and survival measures

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoApril 8, 2021
News

North Korea warns of political collapse if elites can’t find ideological ‘unity’

Officials at a Pyongyang conference stressed the importance of being “ardent loyalists” to leader Kim Jong Un

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoApril 8, 2021
News

Kim Jong Un tells party cell leaders to bond all levels of society like a family

10,000 party members from across North Korea met in Pyongyang to discuss new economic plan on Tuesday

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoApril 6, 2021
COVID-19

North Korea threatens NGOs, media over claims of malnourished children

Aid organizations recently told a U.N. panel that children are suffering due to the DPRK’s COVID-19 border restrictions

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoApril 6, 2021
Evergreen

North Korean conglomerate faces serious fallout after deadly bus accident

Korea Kumgang Group appears to have downsized or shut down completely after a once-successful run

Chad O'CarrollChad O'Carroll | Colin ZwirkoMarch 29, 2021
News

North Korea accuses US of ‘gangster-like logic’ after Biden rebuked its missiles

The U.S. president had said he would “respond accordingly” if North Korea further “escalates” tensions

Colin ZwirkoColin Zwirko | Kelly KasulisMarch 26, 2021
News

Kim Jong Un wants to gift fancy new ‘terrace’ flats to teachers and scientists

The North Korean leader recently inspected housing development plans and prototype passenger buses, state media says

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 25, 2021
News

North Korea says it tested a ‘newly developed’ missile to strengthen military

North Korea says the test helped its solid-fuel missile program and that the missiles "arrest" threats to the peninsula

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 25, 2021
News

Two years past deadline, major North Korean beach resort inches towards opening

Construction worker camps were removed and trucks moved around the sprawling beach resort, satellite imagery shows

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 25, 2021
News

North Korea kicks off plan to build 10,000 ‘modern flats’ in Pyongyang this year

Kim Jong Un said the project will fix the “housing problem” in the capital city “once and for all”

Colin ZwirkoColin ZwirkoMarch 23, 2021
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