Relative Power: A Review of ‘The Sister’, by Sung-Yoon Lee

By | October 24, 2025

First book-length take on Kim Yo-jong, youngest sibling of North Korea’s ruler, examines the sudden rise of Pyongyang’s most powerful woman

The Road Home: A Study of Stalin’s Mass Deportation of Koreans

By | October 21, 2025

Play captures arduous life on the Kazakh steppe for hundreds of thousands of Koreans displaced across the Soviet Union in the late 1930s

Updating the Eternal President: A Review of ‘Accidental Tyrant’, by Fyodor Tertitskiy

By | October 17, 2025

Concise work on Kim Il-sung’s life represents the closest account yet to a definitive biography, with fresh insights into the dictator’s rise to power

Aborted Tourism Reopening Reflects Geopolitical Priorities in Pyongyang

By | October 15, 2025

Russian tourists first in line amid limited acceptance of foreign visitors, as Chinese tour groups fail to return to DPRK border destinations Sinuiju, Manpo, and Samjiyon

Remembering ‘the most Lovable People’: 75 years on, China invokes Korean War Spirit

By | October 15, 2025

Under President Xi, China has initiated a resurgence in education and cultural production around its Korean War history

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