"North Korea is a problem, not only because of its fast advancing nuclear and missile program but also because of the …"

"The great famine of 1994-98 was to a large extent the inviolable result of the policies that Kim Il Sung had pursued …"

"For the average North Korean over the last two decades, the times of Kim Il Sung have often been seen as a lost era o…"

"North Koreans now understand that South Korea is very rich. It is true, but there is a great difference between vague…"

"The North Korean elite does have some sources of hope. The elite itself remains, on the surface at least, remarkably …"

"The unavoidable spread of South Korean capital and information will put the North Korean government in a tight spot, …"

"Right now, no sane and unbiased person would be so stupid as to doubt that the North Korean state is very repressive."

"If a North Korean university professor is suspected of insufficient enthusiasm for the system, they will be gone with…"

"Objectively speaking, the history of North Korean state has been one of an ambitious social if brutal experiment that…"

"When Russians were growing up in Soviet times, they thought Chukovsky’s story about the cockroach ruling over all the…"