Tag: nuclear weapons
N. Korea locks down villages near uranium plant over mystery illness
North Korean authorities have sealed off a cluster of villages near a uranium refining plant in North Hwanghae province. The lockdown follows an outbreak...
The Xi–Kim summit’s hidden fault lines
When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited North Korea on June 8 and 9, 2026, for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,...
To denuclearize North Korea, Xi must make Kim an offer he...
Following his recent meetings with President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to Pyongyang on 8-9 June, his first...
One year of Lee Jae-myung’s North Korea policy: real gains, serious...
June 4, 2026, marks the first anniversary of President Lee Jae-myung's inauguration. Given that his government took office in the wake of a sudden...
South Korea is sleepwalking through the North Korean nuclear crisis
With a U.S.-China summit scheduled for mid-May 2026, calls are growing once again to shift the framework for addressing North Korea's nuclear program away...
Kusong’s hidden nuclear complex: What satellite imagery reveals
Satellite imagery of two sites in Kusong, North Pyongan province, captured in early 2026, shows recent changes at facilities linked to suspected nuclear weapons...
New satellite images reveal upgrades, freight activity at North Korea’s Pyongsan...
Satellite imagery of North Korea's Pyongsan uranium refinery shows the facility continuing to operate and undergo upgrades, with new construction, freight activity, and expanding...
A mended plastic bag from North Korea tells the story the...
On April 15, the day North Korea marks the birth of founding leader Kim Il Sung with elaborate state celebrations, I was combing through...
North Korea orders diplomats to lock in nuclear status, pursue multipolar...
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) issued a classified directive to senior foreign ministry officials in early April 2026 ordering them to...
South Korea’s rushed embrace of Kim Jong Un’s ‘two-state theory’ is...
North Korea's Kim Jong Un first introduced the concept of two hostile states in late 2023, framing South Korea as the country's foremost enemy....
