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On October 7, Hamas carried out a heinous attack against civilian targets in Israel. And their tactics—torturing and murdering over 1,000 civilians,

The founder of North Korea’s ruling dynasty, an isolationist totalitarian leader named Kim Il Sung, was still building some of the country’s

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been giving the world a rare glimpse of his secretive country’s growing missile capabilities. Over

This year, an American nuclear submarine docked at a Korean port for the second time. This results from the Washington Declaration, an

An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months

As part of our ongoing transparency efforts to enhance public understanding of the Intelligence Community’s (IC) work and to provide insights on

The anti-Western nuclear club — North Korea, Russia and China, with Iran close to joining the club — have become emboldened and

North Korea’s nuclear capability poses a serious danger to the Republic of Korea (ROK). Such is the South Korean fear that, according

Hidden away in the private room of an underground restaurant in Seoul, a disparate group of South Koreans have gathered for a

North Korea’s latest missile launches are a demonstration of the country’s avowed ability to use nuclear force against South Korea and the

In 2022, the world came closer to Great Power War than at any point since the end of the Cold War. Russia

The following are the words of former U.S. ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris regarding North Korea and its nuclear ambitions: “The