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3 days ago · NK News is an independent, privately owned specialist information source that focuses on North Korea. It features news, analysis, data and opinion from experts, journalists and North Korean voices, including Dr. Andrei Lankov, a leading North Korea studies scholar.
2 days ago · Lankov, Andrei (2023), “Restitching the Triangle? North Korean Relations With China and Russia After Ukraine,” Korea Policy, Volume 1, Korea Economic Institute, KEI_KoreaPolicy_2023_Andrei-Lankov.pdf (keia.org).
4 days ago · Our team of expert journalists at NK News produces leading analysis on all major developments in North Korea.
3 days ago · Lankov, on the other hand, sees the origins of the North Korean title only in the totalitarian communist parties of the 20th century. Word Leader In a political sense, it entered Korean practice in the 1940s and initially applied only to Stalin. Later, after World War II, Kim Il Sung, a humble captain in the Soviet army, ruled the country ...
19 hours ago · According to historian Andrei Lankov, "Kim Il Sung had become not only supreme but also the omnipotent ruler of North Korea—no longer merely 'first amongst equals, as had been the case in the late 1940s".
5 days ago · In Jerusalem, he visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, met with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – the city’s top Muslim cleric – at the Noble Sanctuary, and left a prayer message at one of the Western Wall’s crevices.
3 days ago · In 2005 North Korea claimed to have nuclear weapons capability, although it was unknown whether the claim was true. After having suspended the LWR project for several years, KEDO withdrew its workers from North Korea in January 2006, and in May the organization decided to terminate the project.
