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Why is it so hard to imagine that North Korea might have perfectly sane reasons for going into space?
U.S. forces in South Korea are on high alert after North Korea claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb last week. But China may be better positioned to curb North Korea’s menacing behavior.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a bit of a pain. Its leader, the remarkably youthful Kim Jong-un, is a caricature of tin-pot despotism. While we may be fortunate enough to find some of his…
North Korea remains committed to perfecting a deployable nuclear weapon capability. It is confident in the understanding that there appears little the international community can do to prevent it.
North Korea has been signalling an uptick in its nuclear programme for a while – and its strategy is as clear as ever.
What are the implications of North Korea’s claims to have detonated a thermonuclear weapon?
The rise of a class of nouveau riche North Koreans is changing the dynamics of the nation’s economy and reshaping the relationship between the Kim government and the North Korean people.
After an exuberant 70th birthday party, North Korea is getting back down to business. Just how sustainable that busniess is remains to be seen.
The West has long depended on the nuclear deterrent to quell the threat of ‘rogue’ nations like North Korea. But Pyongyang’s continued nuclear weapons program shows that global disarmament is the only answer.
The restart of a North Korean nuclear facility has sent shockwave around the world. Why is it happening now?
The Slovenian band Laibach are best known for their use of fascist iconography – but they’re far more subversive than this might indicate.
The demilitarised zone between the Koreas is an incredibly dangerous place to walk – but the Chinese border with North Korea isn’t much safer.
North Korea does not yet have the capacity to launch a nuclear missile from a submarine. Its recent test, however, suggests it is making progress to a game-changing second-strike capability.
For a man who likes to be called ‘outstanding leader’ and ‘brilliant comrade’, Kim Jong-un is strangely unwilling to strut his stuff on the world stage.
South Korean politicians are letting their own ambitions stall progress.
In our series looking at relations between the Russians and the nations along its borders, this instalment turns the spotlight on North Korea.
North Korea is outraged over an upcoming conference in Washington DC about its human rights abuses, to which it has not been invited. Pyongyang strongly denies that it has been alienating the human rights…
Feature films and television shows notoriously play fast-and-loose with the facts. When prologues proclaim “Based on a True Story,” they’re gracefully implying that what follows is mostly fiction. Awards…
If North Korea prides itself on the West never quite knowing what it will do next, there is a fantastic new example worth savouring. Plans are reportedly afoot to open a North Korean restaurant in Scotland…
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Reader in International Relations, Aston University
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Tony Walker é um amigo do The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
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Reader in Asia Pacific Studies, Co-Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies, University of Central Lancashire
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Migration & Social Inclusion Researcher, University of Sheffield
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Faculty (Japan Campus), Temple University
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Professor in Korean Studies, Tufts University
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Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
