A widely-held perception is that the image of North Korea among most Chinese people has
changed from that of a socialist comrade and 'little brother'to an idiosyncratic, trouble-making …

In April 2014, for the first time since the event was established, over 200 foreign recreational
runners participated in the Pyongyang Marathon, which is part of Day of the Sun …

The Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is often dismissed as a valid
legal instrument within the larger framework of the North Korean legal system. This is an …

The political dynamics associated with the Kim Jong-un regime have taken a number of
twists and turns since the beginning of the third generation leadership transition at the end of …

The paper evaluates the effects of domestic and external actions on the probability of reform
in North Korea. It applies the theory of Janos Kornai on socialist systems, in particular the …

Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel bietet eine Analyse der Zielsetzungen, die dem
intransparenten und international umstrittenen Weltraumprogramm der Demokratischen …

Is the glass half full or half empt? lthough this question is held up b pop-ps chologists as a
test of whether one is optimistic or pessimistic, it ma be taken as making an epistemological …

The first decade of Kim Jong Un's rule was aimed at consolidating his power and ensuring
the survival of the regime. Kim's policy led to the development of North Korea's military …

From the 1990s to 2016, North Korea developed a ballistic and nuclear weapons of mass
destruction programme that neither multilateral negotiations under the auspices of the …

Article Type—Research Paper Purpose—The purpose of this article is to highlight a few
important domestic trends in North Korea in the past two decades and to discuss how these …