About the event As the world’s attention has been focused on efforts of the U.S., South Korea, and China to engage North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Un in nuclear negotiations, little attention has been paid to the potential benefits of...

In November 2017, NED hosted a former high-ranking North Korean diplomat for a series of discussions to gain insights and observations about the world’s most secretive country.  Thae Yong-ho was posted in London when he defected in 2016. During...

North Korean defector-turned-activist Ji Seong-ho received the 2017 Oxi Day Foundation Oxi Courage Award at a gala celebration in Washington, DC on October 26. After barely surviving a terrible...

About the Event Since the mid-1990s, when an estimated one million people died from starvation or hunger-related illnesses during the famine that plagued North Korea, jangmadang (private markets) have emerged as a critical means...