SinoNK article delves into 'The Road Home,' a theatrical production at Kazakhstan's State Academic Korean Theatre, depicting the poignant convergence of Kazakh and Korean histories. ➡️ Visit the website : sinonk.com/2025/10/21/the… #Kazakhstan #KoreanHistory

This week, Yujin Lim reviews Sung-yoon Lee’s newest book, ‘The Sister’ based on Kim Yo-jong’s enigmatic rise to prominence in the DPRK and her unprecedented influence as a woman in a deeply patriarchal society. ➡️ Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/10/24/rel…

This week, SinoNK uncovers materials drawn from Record Group 242 at the US National Archives in Maryland, exploring mismanagement and corruption within the DPRK’s first higher education establishment: Kim Il Sung University. ➡️ Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/10/28/rg2…

Anthony Rinna’s latest #article analyses the recent upsurge of #DPRK and #Russia relations, in which #security has taken its place as the central theme. ➡️ Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/10/31/yon…

SinoNK's Adam Cathcart traces an ongoing anti-corruption campaign in the Liaoning customs bureau, where Liu Dali's arrest, former head of customs in Dalian, takes place within a wider trend of anti-corruption directives from the CCP. ➡️ Click to read sinonk.com/2025/11/04/the…

In October's diplomatic review, SinoNK tracks the first visit by a Chinese premier to North Korea in 16 years, a reopened Dandong-Sinuiju postal route and Kim Jong-un’s recent visit to the CPV martyrs’ cemetery in Hoechang. ➡️ Click below to read now! sinonk.com/2025/11/07/dip…

Anthony Rinna unpacks the recent meeting of North Korean and Belarusian foreign ministers and what this holds for the future Eurasian security landscape and the DPRK’s own security strategy. ➡️ Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/11/11/bet…

Following SinoNK's article on corruption in Liaoning customs bureaus, our latest instalment reports on the recent promotees of the CCP, Xu Kunlin (许昆林) and Song Cheng (宋诚), in efforts to distil corruption in the DPRK border province. ➡️ Read more sinonk.com/2025/11/14/lia…

What does the presence of communist leaders of Vietnam and Laos, To Lam and President Thongloun Sisoulith, at the 80th anniversary of the Korean Workers Party, illustrate about North Korea’s global diplomatic efforts? ➡️ Find out below sinonk.com/2025/11/18/bey…

In his latest article, Anthony Rinna discusses Moscow's interest in revising the security landscape on its Pacific borders and the emergence of DPRK as a maritime actor within Russia’s quest for strategic depth. ➡️Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/11/25/sea…

Increased trade between DPRK-China is not felt more strongly than in the border province of Liaoning, serving as the economic overland gateway and a litmus test of bilateral relations between Beijing and Pyongyang... ➡️ Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/11/28/bus…

SinoNK traces the diverging geopolitical concerns of the DPRK and ROK, with the DPRK taking a position of deeper orientation towards Moscow, whilst the ROK's strategic posture shifts to the security objectives of the Trump administration. ➡️ Read below sinonk.com/2025/12/02/div…

“Although the official Hunchun PSB notice made no mention of N. Korea, the recent border security and anti-smuggling operations were clearly aimed at the DPRK, rather than Russia.” Adam Cathcart Sino-NK sinonk.com/2026/01/06/smu…

SinoNK discusses Washington and Beijing's recent pivot away from featuring the DPRK's nuclear disarmament within their security dialogue and whether this points to a growing acceptance of the DPRK as a nuclear state... ➡️ Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/12/09/dro…

In newly released Foreign Office documents, Luke Thrumble takes us through the UK Foreign Office’s attitude to Korean unification in the 1990s, against a backdrop of German reunification after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. ➡️ Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/12/12/aft…

In his second instalment of the RG242 Files series, Stephen Finch explores early political prisoner data from North Korea in the documents seized by US forces from the DPRK during the Korean War. ➡️Click below to read now sinonk.com/2025/12/16/rg2…

Anqi Gao reviews 'Women-led Grassroots Capitalism', a recently published book by Bronwen Dalton and Kyung-ja Jung, which builds on both authors' established scholarly trajectory, focusing on the economic empowerment of DPRK women. ➡️Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/12/19/man…

At SinoNK this week, new research from analyst Anqi Gao traces the origins of #NorthKorean nurseries, and with it, a key moment in the #history of #women and their evolving role in #DPRK society… ➡️Click below to read sinonk.com/2025/12/23/one…

This week, SinoNK explores smuggling and border security in Hunchun, the only Chinese county which lies on the frontiers of both North Korea and Russia… ➡️Click below to read sinonk.com/2026/01/06/smu…

SinoNK dives into #President Lee Jae-myung’s decision to grant South Korean citizens wider access to the DPRK’s flagship party #newspaper, "Rodong Sinmun", a move which illuminates Lee's strategy of wider engagement towards the DPRK. ➡️ Read below sinonk.com/2026/01/09/rea…