Christy Lee

North Korea could use the stringent measures it is employing to fend off COVID-19 to further exert its control over citizens

Missile experts say North Korea has been improving the firepower of the KN-25, 'to attack the South relentlessly in the opening hours or days of conflict'

North Korea made nearly the same amount of money it lost because of sanctions by stealing from banks and cybercurrency exchanges online

President Donald Trump is moving his priorities away from North Korea during his reelection year after fruitless attempts at denuclearization, according to experts

Easing sanctions on North Korea is unlikely to make North Korea give up its nuclear weapons and could do more harm than good while talks remain stalled between Washington and Pyongyang, experts said

Russia has been dodging UN sanctions and hiring North Korean workers to push back against US policy of maximum pressure, a policy that helps counter a shrinking labor pool in its Far East region, experts say 

Experts say sanctioning the financial lifelines of North Korea's regime leaders could induce Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program to prop up its faltering state economy

Going forward, the personal relationship between the US president and his N. Korean counterpart will have no bearing on Pyongyang’s policy toward Washington, said experts

Responding to South Korean president’s call for renewed inter-Korean cooperation, the U.S. said it expected to continue to work with Seoul ‘to ensure that U.N. sanctions are fully implemented’

Iranian attacks on Iraqi bases housing US troops could strengthen North Korea's hostile stance toward America; at the same time, Tehran's announcement that it could enrich uranium for its nuclear weapons program makes Iran a viable market for Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missiles