Managing Instability in North Korea – 38 North
North Korea’s reporting of its first confirmed case of COVID-19, along with reports that hundreds of thousands have feverish symptoms, raises serious concerns about how...
North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: A New Practice Creates a New Analytical Challenge – 38 North
Recent commercial satellite imagery of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site indicates efforts to restore Tunnel No. 3 (formerly referred to as the South Portal area)...
Significant Construction Progress at North Korea’s Sunchon – 38 North
Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates that construction at the Sunchon Airfield has made significant progress over the past year. Efforts to improve and lengthen the...
Project Reveal: North Korean Digital Controls – 38 North
North Korean computer-literate citizens, trained by the state itself, appear to be pushing back on the regime’s attempts to censor and control information access on...
What North Korea Thinks About the Russia-Ukraine War – 38 North
Source: www.kremlin.ru. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised many new security concerns not only for Europe, but also for the rest of the world. In...
Improving North Korean Defector Integration in South Korea: Survey Findings and Recommendations – 38 North
Source: CheongWaDae_청와대_16, Republic of Korea, Creative Commons. It is Seoul’s responsibility to promote and ensure the integration of just under 34,000 resettled defector-migrant North Koreans...
Reading North Korea – 38 North
North Korea’s public messaging matters because Pyongyang exercises complete control over its media to shape and manage public opinion at home and abroad. Pyongyang is...
Yoon’s Key North Korea Challenges: Pyongyang’s Increasing Hostility and Washington’s Backslide Into Strategic Patience – 38 North
Source: Yonhap In 2018, North Korea emphasized the importance of the “powerful socialist country” discourse in becoming a “normal state” in the international community. After...
Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: New Activity at the Command Center Area – 38 North
Commercial imagery from May 4, 2022 reveals renewed activity at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site’s Command Center area. The Command Center area is a secured...
North Korea’s Next Nuclear Test: How Big Could It Be? – 38 North
As North Korea continues to excavate a new portal (entrance) approximately 50 meters east of the original (now demolished) South Portal, there is wide speculation...