Relative Power: A Review of ‘The Sister’, by Sung-Yoon Lee
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
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
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
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
Under President Xi, China has initiated a resurgence in education and cultural production around its Korean War history





