Geostrategy-Direct Hacker groups tied to the North Korean government have stolen about $1.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency in the past five years, U.S. and South Korean officials say. Two (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The ideological divide on the Korean peninsula has long been in evidence on both the North and South sides of the DMZ. The chief of South Korea’s National (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol is contemplating whether to reprimand the military for its botched handling of a North Korean drone infiltration which lasted some five hours. On (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to “exponentially” increase the number of North Korea’s nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden has denied a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Since its founding in 1948, North Korea has claimed to be a communist society. Under communist rule, there are supposedly no class divisions. But North Korea’s growing middle (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct For seven years, a staffer at a North Korean Workers’ Party school had been reportedly stealing rice supplied to the school for her own use. While hoarding food (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The administration of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol plans to revive references to the North Korean regime and its military as an “enemy.” The move, which will (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korean trade officials stationed in China said they “got chills” watching Chinese citizens take to the streets in protest of Xi Jinping’s Covid lockdown policies. The protests, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Chinese leader Xi Jinping has allowed North Korea to develop nuclear weapons and also undermined international efforts to resolve the issue via sanctions, former U.S. Secretary of State (more…)