In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of
the twentieth century. Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland present the most …

Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their
citizens, these regimes constitute" hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be …

Since public disclosure by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of its uranium
enrichment program in 2002 and the subsequent restarting of its plutonium reactor …

Viewed from afar, North Korea may appear bizarre, or positively irrational. But as Nicholas
Eberstadt demonstrates in this meticulously researched volume, there is a grim coherence to …

North Korea is unlikely to relinquish its nuclear programme because of its importance to the
political economy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) state and the …

For two years, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) has been the host
institution of an international book project on contemporary nuclear proliferation challenges …

North Korea's criminal conduct--smuggling, trafficking, and counterfeiting--is well known, but
the organization directing it is understudied or overlooked. Policymakers, military leaders …

In Red Rogue, Bruce Bechtol analyzes the changing nature of North Korea's national
defense, foreign policy, and illicit economic activities in the post–9/11 era. He describes how …

Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the North Korean threat to
global security, according to Bruce Bechtol, an associate professor of political science at …

This article aims to introduce the concept of parallel economies to explain the transformation
of North Korea's command economy during the 1990s. The article summarises North …