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Kim Jong-un may have turned around the North Korean economy. But do the numbers mask deeper troubles?

Six years after the failed Hanoi summit, North Korea appears stronger on paper, but rising prices, a plunging won and structural imbalances cloud Kim Jong-un's economic strategy.

2026.7.5

President Lee Jae Myung greets Unification Minister Chung Dong-young during a luncheon meeting with senior advisers of the Democratic Party at the presidential office in Yongsan, central Seoul, on Aug. 21. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

President Lee proposes three-step denuclearization plan for North Korea

President Lee Jae Myung proposed a three-step denuclearization plan for North Korea, aiming to freeze, reduce and eliminate its nuclear arsenal amid concerns it may legitimize North Korea's nuclear capabilities.

2025.8.21

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North Korea's underground nuclear test site at Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province, undergoes demolition in May 2018. Satellite photography shows that the tunnels leading into the test site have since been restored. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

South urges CVID as North raises price for disarmament

South Korea's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged the North to carry out complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) in response to Pyongyang’s latest statement suggesting its price for disarmament is rising.

2023.7.18

U.S. will continue working with South to engage North: Policy chief

Washington will continue working with Seoul to engage Pyongyang diplomatically despite the lack of progress to restart denuclearization talks, White House Asia policy coordinator Kurt Campbell said Tuesday.

2021.12.8

U.S. President Donald J. Trump, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, at the start of their second meeting at the U.S.-North Korea summit in the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 28, 2019. [EPA/YONHAP]

Seoul may have paid part of Hanoi summit bill

Seoul may have helped Pyongyang cover the costs of its summit with Washington in Hanoi in 2019, according to multiple sources in the Korean government. “There is talk within some political circles that the South Korean government paid a part of...

2021.8.16

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hanoi summit

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Kim Jong-un may have turned around the North Korean economy. But do the numbers mask deeper troubles?

President Lee proposes three-step denuclearization plan for North Korea

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South urges CVID as North raises price for disarmament

U.S. will continue working with South to engage North: Policy chief

Seoul may have paid part of Hanoi summit bill