People in isolated nation reel from impact of sanctions, COVID-19 border closure and extreme weather.
https://www.kawankorea.com/rubrik/news
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/17/south-korea-united-states-china-moon-jae-in-biden/
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/27/us-extradite-foreign-businesspeople-sanctions-saab-wanzhou/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/27/why-the-embargo-against-cuba/
https://www.koreanquarterly.org/tag/nz-friendship-farm/
https://www.stimson.org/2021/biden-review-challenges-of-negotiating-with-north-korea/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/25/timeline-north-koreas-weapons-tests-and-summitry
https://unitedworldint.com/17030-the-us-attempted-of-contact-d-p-r-of-korea-heres-koreas-answer/
https://asiatimes.com/2021/02/the-man-with-a-plan-for-korean-peninsula-peace/
https://asiatimes.com/2021/02/trumps-failure-is-bidens-chance-on-north-korea/
https://asiatimes.com/2021/02/north-korea-can-change-but-wont-fall/
https://www.38north.org/2021/02/the-fallacy-of-north-korean-collapse/
This Book Turns Everything You Thought You Knew About North Korea Upside Down
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/908601.html
https://kpolicy.org/abuse-of-a-name-professor-jang-hie-lee-on-the-united-nations-command/
https://time.com/5360343/korean-war-american-history/
https://www.thecable.ng/the-prerequisite-for-peace-and-stability-on-korean-peninsula
https://nypost.com/2020/06/18/trump-i-should-have-fired-john-bolton-for-botching-north-korea-talks/
https://thebulletin.org/2020/05/kim-jong-un-is-still-alive-what-about-peace-with-north-korea/#
South Korea is a model for combatting COVID-19, it should now take the lead in diplomacy with North Korea
https://truthout.org/articles/correcting-history-five-things-no-one-wants-to-say-about-korea/
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-07/Is-another-DPRK-U-S-crisis-looming--MdNjjy7b5m/index.html
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20191030000121
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/07/17/time-to-internationalise-diplomacy-with-north-korea/
http://www.zoominkorea.org/the-hanoi-summit-recognising-the-irony-and-the-lessons-of-vietnam/
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=3058497
To North Korea, Verifying Requires Reconciling: The Lesson from A Troubled Past—Part I
https://www.38north.org/2018/12/lsigal121418/
http://english.donga.com/List/3/01/26/1558575/1
https://www.38north.org/2018/10/aabrahamian101918/
http://www.atimes.com/how-the-tentacles-of-the-us-military-are-strangling-the-planet/
https://thebulletin.org/2018/08/the-current-us-negotiating-strategy-with-north-korea-is-doomed/
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_northkorea/858166.html
The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage 24 July 2018
https://www.gq.com/story/otto-warmbier-north-korea-american-hostage-true-story
Korea Compatriots Association in New Zealand
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand-welcomes-us-north-korea-talks
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron
https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/korean-peninsula-problem-needs-peaceful-resolution
https://sputniknews.com/military/201801151060775606-pentagon-prepares-for-dprk-war/
https://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/8073595-hands-off-north-korea/
http://www.sldinfo.com/preparing-for-2018-the-un-sending-states-agenda-to-deal-with-north-korea/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-dprk-how-the-us-observed-the-1994-agreed-framework/5619927
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/opinion/trump-north-korea-talk.html?__s=ugvygsk5zhzduogx69xb
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41438084?__s=ugvygsk5zhzduogx69xb
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41228181
Given the specter of nuclear war, the rational policy is one of de-escalation. July 29 2017
Pyongyang’s Construction Boom: Is North Korea Beating Sanctions? July 18 2017
http://www.38north.org/2017/07/hferon071817/
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/20/less-than-one-aircraft-carrier-the-cost-of-north-koreas-nukes.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11874349
Comprehensive peace regime 5 June 2017
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2017/06/197_230413.html
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1049910.shtml
http://progressive.org/dispatches/the-long-dirty-history-of-u-s-warmongering-against-north-kor/
The Korean Nuclear Issue: Past, Present, and Future A Chinese Perspective
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/north-korean-nuclear-issue-fu-ying.pdf
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40367-the-high-costs-of-us-warmongering-against-north-korea
https://www.newcoldwar.org/giving-peace-chance-korea-interview-christine-ahn/
Letter dated 7 April 2017 from the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Getting North Korea Wrong Bruce Cumings
https://ytali.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/QUI.pdf
In South Korea, War Hysteria Is Seen as an American Problem April 17 2017
https://www.thenation.com/article/in-south-korea-war-hysteria-is-seen-as-an-american-problem/
Attacking North Korea now would undermine the very reason U.S. troops have been stationed on the peninsula for seven decades: to protect the South Korean people.
http://fpif.org/war-is-not-an-option-for-korea
https://www.thenation.com/article/this-is-whats-really-behind-north-koreas-nuclear-provocations/
Brian Becker
http://www.globalresearch.ca/china-sounds-the-alarm-trump-prepares-for-war-against-korea/5584808
John Pilger
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_northkorea/790231.html
Identical letters dated 6 March 2017 from the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/862462/files/A_71_843-EN.pdf
DPR Korea Needs and Priorities 2017 (UNDP)
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/DPRK%20Needs%20and%20Priorities%202017.pdf
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/13/china_warns_us_north_korea_are
http://www.ncnk.org/resources/publications/NCNK_Issue_Brief_DPRK_Diplomatic_Relations.pdf
http://fpif.org/time-drop-preconditions-re-open-talks-north-korea/ 21 oct. 2016
http://www.cato.org/blog/stop-counterproductive-western-whining-about-north-korea
http://www.zoominkorea.org/historical-text/
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36533469
http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-sanctions-impose-further-56062/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1605/S00016/womens-walk-for-peace-in-korea-continues.htm
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2016/04/29/33/0301000000AEN20160429004100315F.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-15278612
http://iacenter.org/korea/nkorea021316/
http://www.richardsondiplomacy.org/news/bill-richardson-5-steps-for-engaging-with-north-korea/
http://www.chosonexchange.org/our-blog/2015/6/30/choson-exchange-annual-report-2014
http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/04/opinion-continuing-the-centennial-work-of-women-and-citizen-diplomacy-in-korea/
excerpt from book by Bruce Cumings
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/books/excerpt-the-korean-war.html
http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINKBN0MH0FF20150321?irpc=932
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_northkorea/682415.html
Gashes in the Body Politic
http://www.nonkilling.org/node/606
By Ronda Hauben
Global Research, February 28, 2015
http://www.globalresearch.ca/confrontation-at-the-united-nations-north-korea-challenges-obamas-hostile-policy-against-the-dprk/5434037
Alexander VORONTSOV 19/11/14
The US and its allies have added systematic attacks on North Korea’s human-rights record to their traditional arsenal of tactics for exerting pressure on that country.
http://japanfocus.org/-Henri-Feron/4113
North Korea to benefit from Lincoln Expertise March 2014
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/News--Events/News/Current/North-Korea-to-benefit-from-Lincoln-expertise/
http://timshorrock.com/?p=1915
http://www.mufilms.org/films/memory-of-forgotten-war/#.UqAAZdIW2Sp
Drop in prison population. North Korea's Hidden Gulag: Interpreting reports of Changes in Prison Camps. David Hawk August 2013
http://www.hrnk.org/publications/hrnk-publications.php
The Struggle for a Korean Peace Treaty Dispatch From Seoul August 30th 2013
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/30/dispatch-from-seoul/
A Necessary Step Toward Normalization - The Struggle for a Korean Peace Treaty 19th August 2013
GREGORY ELICH
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/19/the-struggle-for-a-korean-peace-treaty/
Marking the Armistice: Dispatch from South Korea August 9th 2013
http://www.kpolicy.org/documents/interviews-opeds/130809timshorrockmarkingthearmistice.html
Is it Time to Defy Washington's Logic on North Korea? 23 August 2013
After 60 Years of Suffering, Time to Replace Korean Armistice with Peace Treaty. 27th July 2013
Christine Ahn
How US Policy is Driving North Korea's Nuclear Aspirations The Consequences of Gun-at-the-Head Diplomacy 23 May 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/23/the-consequences-of-gun-at-the-head-diplomacy/
The Consequences of Gun at the Head Diplomacy May 2013
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/23/the-consequences-of-gun-at-the-head-diplomacy/
U.S. Versus North Korea: The Hunger Games May 2103 Christine Hong
North Korean Threats: a reminder the Cold War isn’t over http://www.theinternational.org/articles/404-north-korean-threats-a-reminder-the-cold
Does Obama Want More War? North Korea’s Justifiable Anger http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/10/north-koreas-justifiable-anger/
What North Koreans Think https://sites.google.com/site/nzdprksociety/visits-to-pyongyang/what-north-koreans-think
Our Policy Toward North Korea is not Working - Mike Chinoy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mike-chinoy-our-policy-toward-north-korea-isnt-working/2013/03/29/8fcb48da-97e7-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html
Counterpoint
Wayne Brittenden, Chris laidlaw, Christine Hong (University of California) and Avram Agov (Harvard Korean Institute) on the North Korean situation. Radio national NZ Sunday morning Counterpoint programme 21st April 2013
download from:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/20130421
http://www.answercoalition.org/national/news/brian-becker-on-north-korea-rt.html
How Obama is Creating a Crisis on the Korean Peninsula What’s Annoying the North Koreans?
by GREGORY ELICH April 9th 2013
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/09/whats-annoying-the-north-koreans/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/does-north-korea-need-nuclear-weapons/5323227
Final Report of the National Nutrition Survey 2012
http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-peoples-republic-korea/final-report-national-nutrition-survey-2012
An American NGO in North Korea
ttp://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/12/an-american-ngo-in-north-korea/266269/
Jeju
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2012/04/27/us-and-south-korea-assault-an-idyllic-island--not-for-the-first-time
Mountain Diplomacy in North Korea
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-r-eperjesi/mountain-hiking-in-north-korea_b_2255530.html
http://www.nknews.org/2013/02/north-koreas-mountain-man-goes-hiking-in-the-axis-of-evil/
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10907212
DPRK 2008 Census: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/North_Korea/Final%20national%20census%20report.pdf
The United Nations in DPRK: http://kp.one.un.org/
UNITED NATIONS OVERVIEW OF NEEDS AND ASSISTANCE IN DPRK 2012
A ROADMAP TO PEACE IN KOREA. Twelve Steps That Can Change the World Moving from Reaction to Relationship By Eric Sirotkin https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubuntuworks.com%2Fubuntuworks%2FKOREA_HOME_files%2FDPRKSIROTKINPAPER.pdf
Present policy is producing no results. Ted Galen Carpenter
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-05/28/content_15398494.htm
North Korea's 100th – Celebrations Gone Awry. Gavan McCormack
Failed Rocket launch
http://tvnz.co.nz/search/ta_ent_search_tv_skin.xhtml?q=tim+beal&sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1
Developing the DPRK Through Agriculture
http://38north.org/2012/02/rireson020812/
North Korea’s new textbook won’t criticize America
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/12/120_101782.html
Korea at the crossroads: Peace or confrontation? by Dorothy Ogle
http://www.dailycamera.com/guestopinion/ci_19609427
FAO/WFP Crop and Food security Assessment Mission to the DPRK. 25 November 2011
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/al968e/al968e00.htm
Swedish- Korean Friendship Association: http://svenskkoreanska.se/dw/doku.php?id=sk:english
Australia-DPRK Friendship and Cultural Society http://web.me.com/australiadprk/Site/Welcome.html
National Committee on North Korea (USA) http://www.ncnk.org/resources/links/all-links-1/atct_topic_view?b_start:int=20&-C=
http://www.kentlaw.edu/perritt/courses/seminar/julie-huner-Korea.htm
War, Propaganda and the Media http://www.globalissues.org/article/157/war-propaganda-and-the-media
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/11/177_99792.html
http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/23035/Yongbyonreport.pdf
FAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
16 November 2010: http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/al968e/al968e00.htm
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_northkorea/432232.html
Statement on DPRK’s nuclear position : http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jFz88m89jsN8rR0rltw_yxh7W1Mw
Obama's Empire. An Unprecedented Network of Military Bases That is Still Expanding. Catherine Lutz.
Sending another “Jimmy Carter” to N. Korea. Selig. S. Harrison. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_opinion/361475.html
Understanding North Korea by John Gowans. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3818
Information on travel to the DPRK - Koryo Tours: http://www.koryogroup.com/
Moving From a North Korean Nuclear Problem to the Problem of North Korea. By Chaesung Chun: http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/09047Chun.pdf
Authoritative map of North Korea on Google Earth plus comprehensive DPRK references and data: http://www.nkeconwatch.com/north-korea-uncovered-google-earth/
A RELUCTANT FRIEND: NEW ZEALAND’S RELATIONSHIP WITH NORTH KOREA 1973-1989
https://www.nzasia.org.nz/uploads/1/3/2/1/132180707/jas_june2012_bellamy.pdf
Winning, not Playing the Nuclear Game with North Korea. By Peter Hayes and Scott Bruce: http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/09044HayesBruce.html
Why Punishing North Korea Won’t Work . . . and What Will by Leon V. Sigal: http://japanfocus.org/-Leon_V_-Sigal/3163
Up to date articles related to DPRK and current developments from around the world compiled by Tim Beal: http://www.timbeal.net.nz/geopolitics/
The Pyongyang Report. Periodic in-depth analysis of current events: by Tim Beal: http://www.timbeal.net.nz/geopolitics/pyr_index.html
Republic of Korea and Inter-Korean Issues: http://www.timbeal.net.nz/geopolitics/NK_SK.htm
USA and DPRK Relations: http://www.timbeal.net.nz/geopolitics/NK_US_11.htm
Korea International War Crimes Tribunal http://www.iacenter.org/Koreafiles/ktc-contents.htm
Korea, Like Vietnam: A War Originated and Maintained by Deceit http://www.iacenter.org/Koreafiles/ktc-wilson.htm
A South Korean Perespective on a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
USA Bombings of other countries
https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/united-states-bombings-of-other-countries