Posts Tagged ‘Kim Jong-il’

North Korea’s Place on the Chessboard: A Review of ‘Fallout,’ by Joel Wit

By | July 10, 2026

With denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula further away than ever, this new work captures how and why a lasting deal between the US and North Korea remains elusive.

DPRK Media Review: Deepening Global Fault Lines

By and | April 03, 2026

The main party newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported on condemnation of the US by China and Russia, and tensions with the EU, amid fractured alliances over Venezuela, Greenland, and Iran.

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.

Diplomatic Review, Oct 2025: First Visit by a Chinese Premier to the DPRK in 16 Years

By | November 07, 2025

Li Qiang’s visit to Pyongyang to mark 80th WPK anniversary continues escalation in high-level diplomacy

Change and Continuity in North Korean Foreign Policy at the Dawn of the Millennium

By | March 10, 2020

Sino-NK’s Yujin Lim bridges the language barrier to provide insight into the view from Seoul over North Korean foreign policy at the turn of the millennium.