Published by The i paper (21st October, 2024) The image is one for the history books: four ageing white men, sitting stiffly in their suits beneath a Picasso […]
How to escape North Korea
Published by UnHerd (21st November, 2023) When Kim Seungeun first visited North Korea, he saw a barren land devastated by famine, its trees stripped by people desperate to […]
15 years in a slave labour camp – just for listening to pop music in North Korea
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th July, 2021) Three years ago, North Korea’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Kim Jong Un clapped along to songs at a concert by famous pop […]
Could Kim Jong-un’s sister become the world’s first woman dictator?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 21st, 2020) The language was the usual frothing mixture of aggression, bluster and insult that has become familiar from the North […]
The defector taking on Kim Jong-un
Published by UnHerd (19th June, 2020) It was a cloudy July night with a full moon, shortly before midnight, when we arrived at our destination near the Han […]
Your cash is still funding despotic regimes in China and North Korea
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd December, 2019) The Foreign Office has been condemned by senior MPs and human rights groups for continuing to use aid money intended […]
Deal or not, North Korea remains a murderous regime
Published by The Times (11th June, 2018) Kang Chol-hwan was sent to one of North Korea’s death camps aged nine under its policy of punishing entire families for […]
Can we trust Trump in his diplomatic dance with a dictator?
Published by The ipaper (14th May, 2018) The Today programme on Radio 4 often sets the news agenda with tough interviews and taut foreign analysis. Yet on Saturday […]
Does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th May, 2018) When Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office 16 months ago, he promised ‘the hour of action’ had arrived. For […]
Liberating 25 million enslaved North Korean people should be our priority
Published by The ipaper (4th September, 2017) It felt like an earthquake. Tremors rippled out from the underground test zone buried deep in a North Korean mountain and […]
How to solve the North Korea crisis
Published by The ipaper (14th August, 2017) It would take just 14 minutes for a missile fired from North Korea to reach Guam and military leaders in Pyongyang […]
This reckless man is a danger to the free world
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th August, 2017) Kim Jong-Un is leader of the world’s most repressive nation, the third generation ruler of a dynastic dictatorship that […]