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