Pyongyang routinely calls for the removal of U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula and criticizes Seoul for being unduly influenced by the United States. What the recent attack on the World Trade Center helps reveal is why Pyongyang is antagonistic towards South Korea’s political and cultural alliance with the United States.
The United States was […]

Recent developments in the case of Yu Tae Jun, a former defector caught by N. Korean police at the China-Korea border, bolster rather than undermine the impact of human rights groups on North Korea.
Human rights groups like Citizen’s Alliance had challenged Pyongyang to verify the condition of Yu Tae Jun. They had also criticized […]