Sources and Articles to enhance your background knowledge and practice for teaching about North Korea. Last updated: October 18, 2020.
Resources on North Korea
- North Korea Economy Watch blog that tracks developments that impact North Korea’s economic and cultural development
- North Korea Leadership Watch blog that provides monitoring and analysis of North Korea’s political infrastructure and events, including history of the Kim family
- North Korea Tech blog that tracks North Korea’s technological developments that affects its business, telecommunications, security, and space/military capabilities
- North Korea in the World data on North Korea’s external and diplomatic relations
- 38 North Digital Atlas of North Korea: The DPRK Digital Atlas is a compilation of data meant to provide users with the most accurate geographic information on North Korea available at this time. The atlas allows users to search the map using the latest publicly available satellite imagery of any specific point or area as they are searching.
Background Articles on North Korea for your classroom practice
- The North Korean Economy: Assessing the Flood Damage, Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, October 16, 2020, 38 North
- Kim Jong Un’s October 10 Speech: More Than Missiles, by 38 North, October 13, 2020
- North Korea Unveils What Appears to be new ICBM during Military Parade, Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, October 12th, 2020
- Kim Jong Un insists North Korea has no Covid-19 victims, Yoonjung Seo & Sol Han, October 10, 2020, CNN
- North Korean Propaganda Gets a YouTube Makeover: Fewer Parades, More Pizza, Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, Sept. 12, 2020
- Hit by Historic Monsoon, N. Korea Warns of More Floods, William Gallo, Voice of America, August 11, 2020
- North Korea, Fighting to Hold Back Virus and Floods, Says No thanks to Outside Aid, Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, August 4, 2020
- The North Korea coronavirus outbreak might be the biggest threat Kim Jon Un has ever faced, analysis by Joshua Berlinger, July 28, 2020, CNN
- Diplomacy with North Korea: A Status Report, Congressional Research Service, June 19, 2020 (CRS serves as nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress.)
- Mitigating the Nuclear Threat on the Korean Peninsula, Jenny Town, 38 North
- Are We Headed Toward a New Korean War? Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, November 29, 2017
- This is how War by Miscalculation Starts, Zach Beauchamp, VOX, September 25, 2017
- Your Questions about “The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea”, Evan Osnos, Sept. 14, 2017, The New Yorker
- Tough is not Enough, Joseph DeThomas, 38 North, September 4, 2017
- Averting Catastrophe: U.S. Policy Options for North Korea, Brookings Institution, April 2017
- How to Defuse the Conflict with North Korea, by Joel Wit, New York Times, April 19, 2017
- Secret State: A journey into the heart of North Korea, by Will Ripley and Marc Lourdes, CNN