The Koreas
Pyongyang, Seoul, and a peninsula where every missile carries a message.
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Commentary· No. 492
COMMENTARY: North Korean Soldiers as Prisoners — Seoul Opens the Door, Pyongyang Rages
On June 23, 2026, South Korea detonated a diplomatic bomb: Seoul will accept all North Korean prisoners of war held by Ukraine

Analysis· No. 419
ANALYSIS: CANADA "RECALIBRATES" ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA — A PERILOUS BALANCE
On June 24, 2026, in Tokyo, Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty chose his words with surgical precision. The sentence he delivered before Bloomberg deserves…

Investigation· No. 82
INVESTIGATION: The Pack Around Moscow — How Beijing, Tehran, Pyongyang, and Minsk Feed the War
This war is told as a duel: Russia versus Ukraine. That is wrong, or at least terribly incomplete. Behind Vladimir Putin stands a pack…

Column· No. 76
COLUMN: Kim Yo Jong Buries Denuclearization — Pyongyang Answers the G7 Without Flinching
On June 18, 2026, Kim Yo Jong declared denuclearization "an irreversibly finalized agenda" — hours after the G7 reaffirmed it as a goal. The…

Analysis· No. 32
BREAKDOWN: The Kim-Putin Pact Turns Two — and It Is Reshaping the World at Our Expense
Two years after Putin and Kim Jong Un signed their mutual defense treaty in Pyongyang, what seemed like diplomatic theater has become an operational…
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