Center for East Asia Policy Studies

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides a drill of mortar sub-units of North Korean Army in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 10, 2020. KCNA/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2A1G9HMM6S

Who is Kim Jong Un and what does he want from the world?

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Floral tributes are seen in front of statues of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung and late leader Kim Jong Il at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to commemorate the 108th birth anniversary of the North Korean founder, in this undated image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on April 16, 2020. KCNA/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. - RC2A5G935950

Becoming Kim Jong Un

Jung H. Pak, Arielle Landau, Grace Kier, and Samantha Barnes

BigNukeEnergy

Monday, May 11, 2020

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the completion of a fertiliser plant, together with his younger sister Kim Yo Jong, in a region north of the capital, Pyongyang, in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 2, 2020. KCNA/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. - RC20GG9SF4Q5

6 minutes or less: Kim Jong Un

Monday, May 11, 2020

Kim Yo Jong shows a document to her brother, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shows a copy of it to President Donald Trump before they sign them at their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC14A16FD100

Kim Jong Un’s sister in the spotlight

Thursday, May 7, 2020

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the conference of the Central Military Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 23, 2020. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2LUG9LS63R

Burning out our fuse up here alone

Jung H. Pak, Loren Dejonge Schulman, Radha Iyengar, and Erin Simpson

Bombshell

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rides a horse during snowfall in Mount Paektu in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on October 16, 2019. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. - RC1160736120

“Becoming Kim Jong Un”

Jung H. Pak and Benjamin Wittes

The Lawfare Podcast

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Former senior advisor Michael McKinley sits behind U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo duirng a meeting with foreign ministers of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam during the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand August 1, 2019. Picture taken August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool

The Trump administration and the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific”

Lindsey W. Ford

May 2020

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective mask is seen past a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a street as the country is hit by an outbreak of the coronavirus, in Shanghai, China March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

Clouded thinking in Washington and Beijing on COVID-19 crisis

Monday, May 4, 2020