![[Commentary] Here’s What Kim Really Wants Out of His Meeting With Trump](http://www.zoominkorea.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/korean-relations-olympic-10-epa-jrl-180224_2_16x9_992.jpg)
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...
![[Audio] Towards Normalization: Experts and scholars make sense of Trump agreeing to talks with DPRK](http://www.zoominkorea.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/130730-USDCEndKoreanWar-Nodutdol-01.jpg)
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...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 11, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, N-S Relations, Peace and Militarism, US-ROK Alliance
This article was originally published in Counterpunch. By Ramsay Liem Never before has North Korea loomed so large in the U.S. imagination. No longer just a problem “over there,” North Korea has emerged as a much more immediate threat, one with the power to unleash...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 7, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK
By Kim Soobok (Translation and edits by Hyun Lee) Continued from Part 1 During Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945, the colonial government extracted all of Korea’s rice to Japan and left very little for Koreans. Having rice with meat broth was a luxury...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 6, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK
By Kim Soobok (Translation and edits by Hyun Lee) Continued from Intro After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc in the 1990’s, North Korea lost eighty percent of its trade and saw a drastic decline in its ability to import oil. Imagine trying to...
