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COMMENTARY: Two years of the Russia-North Korea alliance — Pyongyang glorifies its dead in Ukraine
I find it impossible to read about North Korean soldiers dying in Ukraine without feeling something that analysis alone cannot contain. These are young…
TESTIMONY: What I saw in Kim Jong Un's weapons tests — the North Korea rewriting the rules
I read these specifications and do the simple math. Ninety kilometers from the border: Seoul enters range. Warheads designed to destroy a nation's infrastructure.…
TESTIMONY: What China is preparing after Kim Jong-un — and why the West must worry
There are questions that Western capitals avoid asking aloud because the answer is too destabilizing. The succession of power in North Korea
OPINION: The CRINK axis — China, Russia, Iran, North Korea converge in war
There is an acronym that has been circulating for several months in the corridors of Washington think tanks, in Atlantic Council reports,
EDITORIAL: Kim Jong-un Rewrites History — Soldiers Dead in Russia, Heroes in the Textbooks
In June 2026, the Russian Military History Society — a state body — confirmed that Russian school history textbooks would be amended
OPEN LETTER: To Koizumi and Ahn — The Seoul Visit That Changes the Geography of Resistance
Ministers Shinjiro Koizumi and Ahn Gyu-back, I am writing to you from the other side of the world, from a desk where
ANALYSIS: Kim Jong Un and Russia — a military alliance threatening the West from within
According to the annual 2026 U.S. intelligence report, North Korea finds itself in its "strongest strategic position in decades." This phrase is
ESSAY: Kim Jong-un, the June 25 Missiles, and the "Lethal and Destructive" Posture That Changes Everything
Dates matter to dictators. June 25, 1950, was the day North Korea launched its invasion of South Korea, beginning a conflict that
PROFILE: Kim Jong Un, the man who plays Beijing and Moscow like two trump cards
On June 8, 2026, Xi Jinping set foot in Pyongyang for the first state visit by a Chinese leader to North Korea