China-North Korea relations have significantly cooled this year as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to ...

Andrei Lankov is a historian of North Korea at Kookmin University, Seoul. He is the author of The Real North Korea: Life and ...

If Trump is allowed by Elon Musk to stick to his guns, he can apply to China the principle he announced for his domestic ...

Despite this declaration, China-North Korea relations have significantly cooled this year. Kim's growing ties with Russia represent a deliberate effort to reduce North Korea's dependency on China ...

North Korea also expects full-scale ‘Kim Jong-un-style’ renewal to usher in new era under his leadership The world stands on ...

Drawing lessons from the back-channel diplomacy of his first term, Trump may well reengage North Korea through secret ...

The North Korean regime managed to stay afloat, but its survival strategy, heavily depending on labor extraction and repression, only further distorted the economy.

Possible technological transfers from Moscow to Pyongyang are a concern fo Seoul and Tokyo, while Beijing juggles its ...