Geostrategy-Direct A recent series of short-range missile tests by North Korea have prompted alarm in Japan. According to a Reuters report, former Japanese defense chief Takeshi Iwaya said last (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct [Editor’s note: The following was written by Jong Ho-Ri, a former senior North Korean economic official. His last assignment was in Dalian, China as head of the Korea (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct With their escape routes being closed off by Chinese authorities, women defecting from North Korea are being sold for as little as $841 to businesses running room salons, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un insists on isolating the nation’s population from the world. Merely purchasing a Western-made movie on the black market can get a North Korean (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States on Aug. 30 conducted a test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. The U.S. Army and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) confirmed (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The irregular trajectories of North Korea’s latest missile tests indicate the Kim Jong-Un regime is working to develop warheads that can penetrate Japan’s ballistic missile defense shield, Japanese (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Radioactive waste from North Korean uranium factories could be flowing into the Ryesong River and the West Sea, analysts have warned. U.S. civilian analyst Jacob Bogle analyzed satellite (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During an Aug. 9 test, North Korea fired a new type of solid-fuel ballistic missile which was revealed for the first time by North Korean (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A North Korean propaganda outlet is calling on South Korea to abandon an intel-sharing pact with Japan that was signed under former South Korean President Park Geun-Hye. “It (more…)