by ZoominKorea | Apr 20, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK
By Kim Soobok (Translation and edits by Hyun Lee) Continued from Part 2 Along the Chongchon River in Namhung, South Pyongan Province is the massive Namhung Youth Chemical Complex. Established in 1979, it is one of North Korea’s largest fertilizer production plants....
by ZoominKorea | Mar 19, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, Peace and Militarism, Trump
This article was originally published in The Hill. By Kim Jong-hoon When President Trump visited South Korea in November 2017 and addressed the National Assembly, I stood and held up a sign that read, “No war; We Want Peace.” Although he was an honored guest of the...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 14, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, Peace and Militarism
This article was originally published March 12, 2018 in The Baffler. By Tim Shorrock AS THE MINUTES TICKED DOWN to last Friday’s extraordinary announcement from South Korea that President Trump would break with seven decades of U.S. policy and meet with North Korean...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 14, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, News Headlines, Peace and Militarism, US-NK Relations
This article was originally published March 9, 2018 in Fortune. By Christine Ahn The dramatic news that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un extended an invitation to President Donald Trump for a summit, and that Trump agreed, is nothing short of a miracle. After a year of...
by ZoominKorea | Mar 12, 2018 | Analysis, Audio/Video, DPRK, Interviews, N-S Relations, Peace and Militarism, Trump
Korea experts and scholars joined Sputnik Radio‘s Loud & Clear for a two-part discussion about last week’s stunning news of Trump accepting North Korea’s invitation to hold a summit meeting with Chairman Kim Jong-un in May of this year. In part...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 16, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, N-S Relations, NK-SK Relations, Peace and Militarism
By Hyun Lee Perhaps the most moving moment in the opening days of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics was when Kim Yong-nam, the president of the Presidium of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly, quietly wiped his tears as North and South Korean singers sang in unison...