Edward Howell

Does a ‘new golden age’ beckon for the US and Japan?

9 February 2025 10:15 pm

Perhaps the first thing on everyone’s minds was just how low Ishiba Shigeru, Japan’s Prime Minister (who prefers warships to…

Kim Jong Un’s North Korean culture war

2 February 2025 5:40 pm

If there’s one thing that a despot wants, it is to stay in power. North Korea’s totalitarian Supreme Leader, Kim…

President Yoon’s arrest brings more turmoil to South Korea

16 January 2025 1:18 am

This year has commenced in an historic fashion for South Korea – albeit for all the wrong reasons. Earlier today,…

Kim Jong Un isn’t going away

8 January 2025 8:17 pm

It was only a matter of time before North Korea lit things up again. As US Secretary of State Antony…

The Jeju Air crash ends a terrible year for South Korea

30 December 2024 5:07 pm

This year will go down in history as an annus horribilis for South Korea. December alone has seen a series of crises.…

Yoon’s impeachment won’t end South Korea’s political chaos

15 December 2024 12:06 am

For those who loathed him, it was second time lucky – but only just. With South Korea’s national assembly passing…

Pyongyang is keeping strangely silent on South Korea’s turmoil

13 December 2024 2:23 am

North Korea has long been infamous for its hyperbolic rhetoric. While there are some subjects – such as the locations…

South Korea’s political chaos is far from over

5 December 2024 3:46 am

Had you have taken a direct flight from London to Seoul yesterday afternoon, by the time you would have landed…

South Korea’s balloon barrage has hit a nerve in the North

1 December 2024 4:00 pm

Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has long been confined to her brother’s…

North Korea isn’t scared of the UN

6 November 2024 4:51 am

It surely comes as no surprise to hear that North Korea does not like the United Nations. The hermit kingdom…

What’s upset Kim Jong Un?

1 November 2024 3:37 am

When Kim Jong Un does not get what he wants, he makes his displeasure known far and wide. Over the…

David Lammy can’t afford to let down South Korea

24 October 2024 12:53 am

Labour’s first 100 days in power have been nothing short of a disaster. Whether the beneath contemptible decision to shelve…

North Korean soldiers will become Putin’s cannon fodder

19 October 2024 6:28 pm

Hermit kingdoms usually keep themselves to themselves, but now, North Korea is reinventing the moniker by which it has long…

Why North Korea is cutting off all roads to the South

10 October 2024 5:00 pm

If you visit South Korea, you may be startled at the presence of road signs pointing towards Kaesong and Pyongyang:…

Kim Jong Un will take no blame for North Korea’s floods

21 August 2024 7:54 pm

The sight of a grimacing Kim Jong Un on board an inflatable rubber dinghy is not what one would expect…

Will North Korea send troops to Ukraine?

2 July 2024 4:34 pm

When dealing with North Korea, it’s important not just to look at what the regime says about its present and…

Why Kim Jong Un is rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin

18 June 2024 9:50 pm

When Vladimir Putin lands in Pyongyang today on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years, it will be…

North Korea’s dirty protest

30 May 2024 11:36 pm

North Korea has long been known for its rhetorical braggadocio. Most of the time, the regime’s bluster needs to be…

Kim Jong Un’s catchy propaganda revamp

27 May 2024 5:00 pm

Think of North Korean propaganda and you might think of old-fashioned revolutionary marches praising the Supreme Leader, denouncing the United…

How North Korea uses cartoons to evade sanctions

6 May 2024 3:55 pm

Recently, it was reported that North Korean animators may have been working on cartoon projects for western firms, including Amazon…

Is North Korea developing biological weapons?

19 April 2024 2:18 am

The threat North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme poses to the world is well known. But as the hermit kingdom actively…

Why North Korea hates Alan Titchmarsh’s jeans

27 March 2024 5:36 am

Alan Titchmarsh presumably did not expect to see his programme Garden Secrets, filmed in 2010, air on North Korean state television this…

Kim Jong-un is in no mood to calm down

3 January 2024 2:39 am

South Korean voters will be among the more than four billion people going to the polls this year. With a…

Why Kim Jong-un keeps crying

9 December 2023 5:25 pm

Crying in public is something we tend to associate with the North Korean people rather than their rulers ­– who are…

Is opposition to Kim Jong Un growing in North Korea?

3 December 2023 5:00 pm

North Korea is hardly the first country that comes to mind when you think of elections. Yet since the inception…