The Long Crane of the Law: Liaoning Corruption and the Customs Bureau

By | November 04, 2025

Chinese President Xi Jinping steps up anti-corruption drive against customs officials amid strong trade growth with the DPRK and South Korea

Yongusil: Russia’s New Great Game on the Korean Peninsula

By | October 31, 2025

Russia’s recent embrace of North Korea represents a Northeast Asia gambit that goes beyond transactional bilateralism and the conflict in Ukraine

RG 242 Files: Corruption, and Cult of Personality, at Kim Il-sung University

By | October 28, 2025

NARA document describes embezzlement and efforts to conceal malpractices at North Korea’s first university during early operations in 1946

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

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