Ethan Jewell is a Seoul-based correspondent for NK News focused on sanctions, trade and maritime issues. He previously worked as an investigations and intelligence specialist for Pinkerton Comprehensive Risk Management and as a research intern for the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies.
New designations target Russian individuals and companies suspected of supporting DPRK weapons programs
Experts say financial turmoil due to sanctions against Russia will squeeze DPRK laborers, who are unable to return home
But expert says Russia’s growing isolation due to Ukraine invasion could lead to open violations of DPRK trade bans
Lawyers for Virgil Griffith say he had borderline ‘obsession’ with DPRK as they petition for lenient sentence
DPRK television broadcast footage of Sam Chon Li 1 more than three years after it vanished from ship-tracking systems
Move reflects Washington’s growing ‘appetite’ to wrangle in novel fintech exploited by DPRK, expert says
Country’s virus controls compound long-running humanitarian crises, as NGOs anticipate bleak future for DPRK aid work
Evidence from UN Panel of Experts report ties payments to Taiwanese firm allegedly linked to major oil trader
Foreign vessels are smuggling oil outside Nampho and off west coast, as DPRK’s pandemic controls prevent docking
US prosecutor says new policy will target DPRK cyber threats and ‘nefarious activity’ by ‘hostile’ states
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