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Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities are increasing, but there is limited international capacity for or interest in addressing them.
The details vary, but the pattern is immediately recognisable: a volley of missiles, followed by chilling new rhetoric. This time, North Korean state media said the (...)
For several days from 8 August, heavy rains fell continuously mainly in the Seoul metropolitan area, flooding homes, roads and subway stations of Seoul. By 10 August, at least 11 people had been killed, about 570 had temporarily lost their homes, and seven others were missing as a result of the (...)
Fake news about Kim Jong-Un gets wall-to-wall coverage but citizens of a key ally opposing a joint military exercise goes largely unnoticed.
In America these days, almost any information about North Korea, be it rumor, fake news, or just plain silly, becomes fodder for the mainstream media. (...)
North Korea’s dictator Kim Jung-Un has given his elite supporters masks and privileged access to healthcare.
For most of the COVID pandemic, North Korea has taken a different approach to the rest of the world. While other countries locked down and restricted international travel, the North (...)
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. But it’s only in recent days, in May 2022, that the secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has reported its first confirmed cases of the virus.
While it may seem somewhat astounding that a country (...)
In 1995, Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing declared gender mainstreaming as major global strategy. The strategy aimed at making feminism to the mainstream in the context of the global neoliberal era. The strategy promoted abolition of discrimination against women in the institutional (...)
In the South Korean presidential election conducted on March 9, Yun Seok-yeol of the conservative opposition party “People Power Party (PPP)” won over Lee Jae-myung of the progressive ruling party "Democratic Party of Korea (DPK)” by a narrow margin of 240,000 votes. The vote percentages for the (...)
The hostility of the conservative party has pushed the disability-rights movement to the center of a larger fight for minority groups in South Korea.
SEOUL—April 15 marked the 91st day of a dramatic confrontation at Hyehwa station in the middle of the South Korean capital. Disability rights (...)
North Korea has clarified its position to support Russia externally. Although The UN General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on March 2 demanding that Russia immediately end its military operations in Ukraine, North Korea voted against it with other four countries: Belarus, (...)
Workers, farmers and the urban poor, battered by the pandemic, are demanding labor protections and structural reforms.
On January 15, a coalition of workers across South Korea — rural farmers, the urban poor and laborers — will gather in downtown Seoul for a National All-People’s Mobilization, in a (...)
When North Korean state media reported that the Workers Party’s convened a plenary meeting of its 8th Central Committee on December 27, it signaled that Kim Jong Un might not deliver a New Year’s Day address this year. Sure enough, state media instead reported on the results of the five-day (...)
0. Introduction
With 2022 beginning, South Korea’s left remains extremely divided and politically fragmented. In terms of institutional politics, the only left-wing party in parliament is Shim Sang-jung’s Justice Party (JP), nominally the third party in parliament with just 6 seats out of 295. (...)
In a predawn raid on September 2, the South Korean government arrested Yang Kyung-soo, president of the country’s largest labor confederation. Yang is the thirteenth president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in a row to be jailed.
Before dawn on September 2, 2021, hundreds of police (...)
4 September, 2021IndustriALL Global Union is outraged over the arrest of KCTU president YANG Kyeung-soo in the early hours of 2 September. The arrest came after Korean police raided the KCTU headquarters, dragging out YANG Kyeung-soo.
An arrest warrant had been issued 20 days earlier by the (...)
K-pop activism is a growing phenomenon in Southeast Asia, serving as an alternative means of political mobilisation and expression among tech-savvy youth.
In recent times, K-pop has been making political waves around the globe. In June 2020, K-pop boy-group BTS made headlines when along with (...)
Korean trade union leader Kim Jin-suk battles COVID-19, winter, and breast cancer to send a message to profit-making corporations—and keep the promsie of Korea’s pro-democracy movement alive.
Amidst heightened social restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and bracing the punishing winter (...)
In the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of East Asia’s most advanced digital economies, with e-commerce, ride-hailing, and other services all growing. But for many truckers and logistics transportation workers, without which these services wouldn’t be possible, the benefits have been (...)
South Korean labor activist Kim Jin-suk inspired her country back in 2011 by occupying the top of a 115-foot shipyard crane to protest worker layoffs and defend workers’ rights. Now, as she fights for her life against breast cancer, she’s demanding her job back.
A welder from South Korea is (...)
A Taiwan-born activist in Jeju Island’s anti-military movement reflects on the challenges of international solidarity. Date of interview: Nov. 14, 2019 Place of interview: Gangjeong Village, Jeju Island, South Korea Interviewee: Born in Taiwan and taking up residence on Jeju Island since 2011, (...)
In 1980s South Korea, hundreds of protesters were maimed and blinded by tear gas grenades fired by police. But the demand to stop the state’s use of tear gas soon itself became the focus of protests — a fight against police brutality which rallied millions of South Koreans behind the (...)
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