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3 weeks ago | 
wilsoncenter.org | Rachel Lee |Zhao Zhong |Anton Delgado
Key Takeaways The Colorado River and Rio Grande — two significant transboundary rivers at the US-Mexico border — are experiencing historic low water levels due to persistent droughts, increasing demand, and conflicting interests. In the face of climate change, competing water users in the borderlands, including plants and wildlife, are struggling to meet their own needs.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
38north.org | Rachel Lee
North Korean media’s readout of the annual year-end party plenary meeting in 2024 revealed relatively little about its defense and foreign policy goals for 2025.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
38north.org | Rachel Lee
How does North Korea feel about South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s enactment of martial law and the fallout, including the National Assembly’s vote to impeach Yoon? The North’s reaction to the ongoing South Korean political turmoil has been subdued. Notably, it remains silent on reports that the former South Korean defense minister sent drones into Pyongyang in October in an attempt to start a limited conflict with North Korea and lay the groundwork for martial law enactment.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
38north.org | Rachel Lee
In a speech at a Korean People’s Army conference on November 15, Kim Jong Un said the United States was “sustaining their [its] military assistance to Ukraine” and claimed “the United States and other Western countries are using Ukraine as a shock force in the war against Russia.” This speech was carried for both domestic and external audiences.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
38north.org | Rachel Lee
Predicting North Korea’s next moves can be risky, even for the most seasoned and careful experts who base their analysis on a robust baseline of relevant data. Cases in point are the latest Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) session held on October 7 and 8, and the steps North Korea has since taken.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
38north.org | Rachel Lee
Domestic Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Media Analysis, WMD They say silence is golden, but that is not always the case with North Korea. After a relatively quiet two months following the Kim-Putin June summit in Pyongyang, the North has pivoted back to militant themes in recent weeks.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
38north.org | Rachel Lee
Foreign Affairs North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui recently attended the Fourth Eurasian Women’s Forum in Russia and the First BRICS Women’s Forum held on the sidelines of the Eurasian women’s forum.[1]Earlier, in June, a North Korean Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports delegation attended a BRICS sports ministers meeting in Russia, which seems to be the first time the North attended a BRICS event.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
38north.org | Rachel Lee
Domestic Affairs, Military Affairs According to a Radio Free Asia (RFA) report, Kim Jong Un’s recent speech to flood victims in North Pyongan Province attracted attention for his use of South Korean terms, which are banned in North Korea.[1] However, approximately half of the seven expressions cited in the report have been used regularly by North Korean print media for years, which seems to suggest a discrepancy between media language and daily colloquialism, at least in North Pyongan...
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
stimson.org | Rachel Lee
The defense leaders of the United States, South Korea, and Japan took the historic step of institutionalizing trilateral security cooperation by signing a “Memorandum of Cooperation on the Trilateral Security Cooperation Framework [TSCF]” in Tokyo on July 28. This memorandum builds on the Trilateral Leaders’ Summit at Camp David in August 2023, which stipulated, inter alia, regularizing various forms of trilateral cooperation.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
38north.org | Rachel Lee
Domestic Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Media Analysis Vladimir Putin’s less-than-24-hour visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) last week spawned a whirlwind of pre-summit media speculation about exactly how far and deep their relationship might stretch, particularly in the military realm.
