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After Berlin: Assessing UK Foreign Office Talks on Korean Unification in the 1990s

By | December 12, 2025

FCO archive release shows division on reunification discussions between ROK Embassy, and British officials and scholars soon after Soviet collapse.

Dropping Denuclearisation: North Korea in China and US Defence Priorities

By | December 09, 2025

US and Chinese government decisions to soften tone on nuclear threat represents latest positive for Pyongyang amid improving ties with global powers.

Diplomatic Review, Nov 2025: Remembering Kim Yong-nam

By | December 05, 2025

Death of DPRK’s longest-serving, senior government official follows decades of high-level diplomacy with Chinese leaders from Mao to Xi Jinping.

Business as Usual: Liaoning Leads China-DPRK Trade Revival

By | November 28, 2025

Sharp increase in trade with China’s main gateway to the DPRK comes amid signs of North Korea’s economic reopening after Covid-19.

Beyond CRINK: Southeast Asia in North Korea’s New Diplomacy

By | November 18, 2025

Recent flurry of high-level contact with Vietnam, Laos and Indonesia points to expansion of DPRK diplomacy beyond China and Russia.