On 10 August 2022, Kim Jong Un declared "victory" over the COVID-19 epidemic at the "National meeting of reviewing the emergency anti-epidemic work", while Kim Yo Jong reiterated previous North Korean claims that the virus had entered the country from South Korea and threatened to wipe out the South...

ONN's Regional Issues Manager and Senior Analyst Rachel Minyoung Lee shared her views of a recent speech by the North Korean leader's sister Kim Yo Jong.

ONN's Regional Issues Manager and Senior Analyst Rachel Minyoung Lee shared her views of North Korea's shifting propaganda strategy with the Financial Times.

On 1 August 2022, Laura Rockwood, now former director of ONN, contributed an article to the Seoul-based Sejong Institute's online journal "Korea on Point" on her views of the new South Korean administration's North Korea policy.

It is with deep sadness that the ONN Team announces the retirement of its inaugural Director Laura Rockwood effective 1 August.

ONN Director Laura Rockwood shared her insights with NK News.

One Earth Future’s Open Nuclear Network (ONN) recently launched its inaugural “Nuclear Risk Reduction Forum,” bringing together their robust networks of experts to explore the collaboration required to de-escalate conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

ONN's Regional Issues Manager and Senior Analyst Rachel Minyoung Lee co-authored with Robert Carlin an article for 38 North on the DPRK academic discourse on tourism since Kim Jong Un took power. This piece is part of the second phase of the "Understanding Kim Jong Un's Economic Policymaking" series...

In its October 2020, January 2021 and April 2022 military parades, the DPRK displayed three types of large submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs): the Pukguksong-4ㅅ, the Pukguksong-5ㅅand an unnamed SLBM, respectively. To date, none of these SLBMs have been flight tested and their developmenta...

On 29-30 June, ONN Director Laura Rockwood and ONN Analyst Jaewoo Shin participated in the 23rd World Korea Forum (WKF) co-hosted by the Korea Global Foundation and the University of Hawaii's Center for Korean Studies. This event brought together experts, lawmakers and former officials from Canad...

ONN analyst Tianran Xu gave comments to Taiwan Plus News on recent military exercises and the gradual shift towards asymmetrical warfare capabilities. Reporter Jaime Ocon asked about the importance of these exercises.

"North Korea seems to be using the COVID outbreak to strengthen party control across the board," Chae Yun-hwan from Yonhap News Agency cites ONN's Regional Issues Manager and Senior Analyst Rachel Minyoung Lee.

On 23-24 June, ONN Regional Issues Manager and Senior Analyst, Rachel Minyoung Lee, and Regional Issues Strategist, Veronika Bedenko, attended the Seventh Ulaanbaatar Dialogue Initiative on Northeast Asian Security (UBD).

ONN's Regional Issues Manager and Senior Analyst Rachel Minyoung Lee published a paper on the basics of North Korean media analysis.

ONN's Regional Issues Manager and Senior Analyst Rachel Minyoung Lee contributed an article to War on the Rocks on North Korea's economic reform.

The DPRK has conducted six nuclear tests, each of which took place within months of long-range rocket or satellite launches. In anticipation of a possible seventh nuclear test, information on the first six tests has been compiled in this backrounder.