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It’s complicated.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2026/06/does-congress-get-a-vote-on-the-iran-deal-its-complicated/", "published_at": "2026-06-19T20:32:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100d8ab5b55", "title": "In Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and North Korea, a fool’s conceit defeated us", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2026/06/iran-and-the-price-of-one-mans-incompetence/", "published_at": "2026-06-16T18:02:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100d90e7f47", "title": "Trump Expected Iranians to “Die for a Delcy,” and the People Did Not Come", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2026/04/trump-expected-iranians-to-die-for-a-delcy-and-the-people-did-not-come/", "published_at": "2026-04-02T13:38:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100d96643c2", "title": "Zelensky plays his oil cards against Trump & Putin", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2026/03/zelensky-plays-his-oil-cards-against-trump-putin/", "published_at": "2026-03-25T22:08:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100da525c30", "title": "Chosun Ilbo: Andrei Lankov arrested in Latvia", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2026/02/chosun-ilbo-andrei-lankov-arrested-in-latvia/", "published_at": "2026-02-25T01:59:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100dad04753", "title": "The coming Venezuela quagmire may not be the one you expect", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2026/01/the-coming-venezuela-quagmire-may-not-be-the-one-you-expect/", "published_at": "2026-01-03T15:47:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100daebea5e", "title": "Planting My Standard", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2025/10/planting-my-standard/", "published_at": "2025-10-26T22:13:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100db043084", "title": "Seoul and Washington are quietly hiring their divorce lawyers", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2025/06/seoul-and-washington-are-quietly-hiring-their-divorce-lawyers/", "published_at": "2025-06-05T17:38:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100dbd6f4ac", "title": "I could watch this video of exploding Russian bombers all day.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2025/06/i-could-watch-this-video-of-exploding-russian-bombers-all-day/", "published_at": "2025-06-04T16:15:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100dc360e6f", "title": "British American Tobacco, North Korea, & the Bomb: Setting a New Low for How Evil a Tobacco Company Can Be", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2023/04/british-american-tobacco-north-korea-the-bomb-setting-a-new-low-for-how-evil-a-tobacco-company-can-be/", "published_at": "2023-04-30T22:29:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100dc6c0a6b", "title": "The Root of All Evil: Money, Rice, Crime & Law in North Korea", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2023/04/the-root-of-all-evil-money-rice-crime-law-in-north-korea/", "published_at": "2023-04-04T12:28:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100dcb1ab3c", "title": "No, North Korea did not “manage” COVID. It piled famine on plague.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2022/08/no-north-korea-did-not-manage-covid-it-piled-famine-on-plague/", "published_at": "2022-08-22T12:50:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100ddb08b80", "title": "How sanctions helped bring down the Soviet Bloc", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2022/08/how-sanctions-helped-bring-down-the-soviet-bloc/", "published_at": "2022-08-18T23:44:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100dea83306", "title": "The U.S. & South Korea should enforce existing sanctions against North Korea, not bargain for new ones", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2022/07/the-u-s-south-korea-should-enforce-existing-sanctions-not-bargain-for-new-ones/", "published_at": "2022-07-20T03:54:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100deb0e475", "title": "How Uygur and North Korea human rights activists can join forces to keep slave-made goods out of your closet", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2022/01/how-uygur-and-north-korea-human-rights-activists-can-join-forces-to-keep-slave-made-goods-out-of-your-closet/", "published_at": "2022-01-02T21:18:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100df27c8b7", "title": "Selling Slavery: South Korean investors’ $900,000 Kaesong lobbying campaign", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2021/10/selling-slavery-south-korean-investors-900000-kaesong-lobbying-campaign/", "published_at": "2021-10-04T03:40:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100df5b65ca", "title": "For the first time, the Justice Department extradites a North Korean to stand trial in the U.S.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2021/03/for-the-first-time-the-justice-department-extradites-a-north-korean-to-stand-trial-in-the-u-s/", "published_at": "2021-03-23T04:04:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-f391-73b1-8d71-4100df8d1923", "title": "You can’t blame Donald Trump for filling Moon Jae-in’s cabinet with pro-Pyongyang ex-terrorists", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/07/you-cant-blame-donald-trump-for-filling-moon-jae-ins-cabinet-with-pro-pyongyang-ex-terrorists/", "published_at": "2020-07-23T05:44:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065d1a35b5", "title": "Our S Korean ally has a plan to bail Kim Jong-un out, but it’s no better than the rest of them", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/07/our-south-korean-ally-has-a-plan-to-bail-out-kim-jong-un-it-wont-work/", "published_at": "2020-07-22T02:46:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065d1e906c", "title": "Why DOJ’s deferred prosecution of Essentra FZE is a good deal for it, & for us.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/07/why-dojs-deferred-prosecution-of-essentra-fze-is-a-good-deal-for-fze-for-us/", "published_at": "2020-07-17T12:57:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065d98a5a3", "title": "Will there be another Trump-Kim summit? Who knows? Will it do any good? No.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/07/will-there-be-another-trump-kim-summit-who-knows-will-it-do-any-good-no/", "published_at": "2020-07-13T04:22:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065e1d78e5", "title": "The N.Y. Times, the Ningpo 12, Minbyun & Yoon Mee-hyang: The Story Behind the Story", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/06/the-n-y-times-the-ningpo-12-minbyun-yoon-mee-hyang-the-story-behind-the-story/", "published_at": "2020-06-09T01:42:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065e85c96f", "title": "Feds unseal 14-count indictment against 33 agents of sanctioned North Korean bank", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/05/feds-unseal-14-count-indictment-against-33-agents-of-sanctioned-north-korean-bank/", "published_at": "2020-05-28T16:59:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065f24fcc3", "title": "Tim Shorrock spreads disinformation about biological warfare in Korea. That makes him a disinformant.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/05/tim-shorrock-spreads-disinformation-about-biological-warfare-in-korea-that-makes-him-a-disinformant/", "published_at": "2020-05-28T02:52:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065f44edcd", "title": "OFAC’s new North Korea (sort of) designations", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/05/ofacs-new-north-korea-sort-of-designations/", "published_at": "2020-05-13T16:56:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065f6a161a", "title": "On OFAC’s new North Korea Sanctions regulations", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/04/on-ofacs-new-north-korea-sanctions-regulations/", "published_at": "2020-04-14T04:56:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05065f8bdbb8", "title": "DOJ indicts 2 Chinese men for laundering stolen South Korean Bitcoin for North Korean hackers", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/03/doj-indicts-2-chinese-men-for-laundering-stolen-south-korean-bitcoin-for-north-korean-hackers/", "published_at": "2020-03-03T03:36:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-050660165840", "title": "Huawei & North Korea: Reading between the lines of EDNY’s new indictment", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/02/huawei-north-korea-reading-between-the-lines-of-ednys-new-indictment/", "published_at": "2020-02-15T03:44:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-050660420ecd", "title": "Moon Jae-in’s Wednesday Night Massacre threatens the rule of law in Korea", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2020/01/moon-jae-ins-wednesday-night-massacre-threatens-the-rule-of-law-in-korea/", "published_at": "2020-01-09T13:33:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-050660b52492", "title": "The Warmbier Act could raise the pressure on Kim Jong-un dramatically, whether Donald Trump likes it or not", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/12/the-warmbier-act-could-raise-the-pressure-on-kim-jong-un-dramatically-whether-donald-trump-likes-it-or-not/", "published_at": "2019-12-20T11:45:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-050661b3dbe0", "title": "Review: Sandra Fahy, “Dying for Rights,” Columbia University Press, 2019", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/12/review-sandra-fahy-dying-for-rights-columbia-university-press-2019/", "published_at": "2019-12-16T13:23:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-050661f3d799", "title": "Christine Ahn, Pak Chol, and the United Front Department", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/11/christine-ahn-pak-chol-and-the-united-front-department/", "published_at": "2019-11-04T13:44:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-05066224f61c", "title": "Report: Kim Jong-un starves his people, America blamed, women hardest hit", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/10/report-kim-jong-un-starves-his-people-america-blamed-women-hardest-hit/", "published_at": "2019-10-30T13:00:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-050662b6d85a", "title": "How South Korea’s “human rights lawyer” president waged a quiet war to silence North Korea human rights activists", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/09/how-south-koreas-human-rights-lawyer-president-waged-a-quiet-war-to-silence-human-rights-activists/", "published_at": "2019-09-23T12:50:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-050662c16e39", "title": "Judge holds Chinese banks in contempt, fines them $50K a day for failing to comply with North Korea subpoenas", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/05/judge-holds-chinese-banks-in-contempt-fines-them-50k-a-day-for-failing-to-comply-with-north-korea-subpoenas/", "published_at": "2019-05-16T02:08:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-de8c-71e5-b5c6-050662d869eb", "title": "I’ll give you a topic. The final voyage of the “Wise Honest” was neither. Discuss.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/05/ill-give-you-a-topic-the-final-voyage-of-the-wise-honest-was-neither-discuss/", "published_at": "2019-05-10T13:00:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e784633c9e7d", "title": "OFK Exclusive: Court orders three Chinese banks to comply with subpoenas for North Korea-related records", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/04/ofk-exclusive-court-orders-three-chinese-banks-to-comply-with-subpoenas-for-north-korea-related-records/", "published_at": "2019-05-01T02:10:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e784637561aa", "title": "The “experts” were wrong. The sanctions are working.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/04/the-experts-were-wrong-the-sanctions-are-working/", "published_at": "2019-04-23T12:52:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e78464107a11", "title": "S. Korea’s ruling party thinks Korean journalists must “contribute to peaceful reunification, national reconciliation & the restoration of national homogeneity”", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/04/s-koreas-ruling-party-thinks-korean-journalists-must-contribute-to-peaceful-reunification-national-reconciliation-the-restoration-of-national-homogeneity/", "published_at": "2019-04-04T03:00:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e7846496a510", "title": "“Liberal” South Korean authorities launch criminal investigation of political parody posters", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/04/liberal-south-korean-authorities-launch-criminal-investigation-of-political-parody-posters/", "published_at": "2019-04-02T11:08:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e78464d997ad", "title": "State Department cites “liberal” South Korean government’s censorship", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/04/state-department-cites-liberal-s-korean-governments-censorship-of-north-korean-defectors-critics/", "published_at": "2019-04-02T01:56:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e784653e1ac0", "title": "How Congress can legislate maximum pressure over Donald Trump’s veto", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/03/how-congress-can-legislate-maximum-pressure-over-donald-trumps-veto/", "published_at": "2019-03-25T12:07:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e7846545f9c0", "title": "UN Panel investigating South Korean sanctions violations", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/03/u-n-panel-investigating-south-korean-sanctions-violations/", "published_at": "2019-03-13T12:48:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e78465dda521", "title": "Congress is losing confidence in Trump & Treasury on North Korea sanctions", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/03/congress-is-losing-confidence-in-trump-treasury-on-north-korea-sanctions/", "published_at": "2019-03-07T03:16:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e784669fa1a0", "title": "How to negotiate a lasting peace in Korea, feed the hungry, and heal the sick", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/02/how-to-negotiate-a-lasting-peace-in-korea-feed-the-hungry-and-heal-the-sick/", "published_at": "2019-02-28T13:45:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e78467571456", "title": "Hanoi Redux: the Senate, the Supremes & Pompeo (also, Trump!) on the Iran deal", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/02/hanoi-redux-the-senate-the-supremes-pompeo-also-trump-on-the-iran-deal/", "published_at": "2019-02-23T18:27:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e78467feb79a", "title": "Save Congress a Seat at Hanoi: On North Korea, Sanctions, Treaties & Politics", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/02/save-congress-a-seat-at-hanoi-on-north-korea-sanctions-the-constitution-politics/", "published_at": "2019-02-21T01:42:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e78468d8a4bd", "title": "As Trump goes soft on North Korea, the Democrats are outflanking him", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/02/as-trump-goes-soft-on-north-korea-the-democrats-are-outflanking-him/", "published_at": "2019-02-18T01:23:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e78469c356f9", "title": "How to make Kaesong a safety valve for sanctions and a(nother) test of engagement", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2019/01/how-to-make-kaesong-a-safety-valve-for-sanctions-and-a-test-of-engagement/", "published_at": "2019-01-11T23:24:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e7846a5726c3", "title": "Rape, revenge, sanctions & North Korea’s hated Ministry of Love", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/12/extortion-rape-revenge-sanctions-north-koreas-hated-ministry-of-love/", "published_at": "2018-12-10T13:44:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e7846a9a79a6", "title": "Of course, Kim Jong-un’s tourist resorts will fail. Of course, we can help with that.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/12/of-course-kim-jong-uns-tourist-resorts-will-fail-of-course-we-can-help-with-that/", "published_at": "2018-12-03T12:06:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e7846ae3b850", "title": "DOJ sues to forfeit $3M linked to N. Korean money laundering, proliferation financing & slave labor", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/11/doj-sues-to-forfeit-3m-linked-to-n-korean-money-laundering-proliferation-financing-slave-labor/", "published_at": "2018-11-27T04:50:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e7846b1516d0", "title": "In “liberal” South Korea, three journalists go on trial for criminal defamation", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/11/in-liberal-south-korea-three-journalists-go-on-trial-for-criminal-defamation/", "published_at": "2018-11-26T13:09:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-b637-73a9-a0a5-e7846b5c1f28", "title": "How engaging the wrong North Koreans set back openness, reform & peace", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/11/how-engaging-the-wrong-north-koreans-set-back-openness-reform-peace/", "published_at": "2018-11-19T11:31:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e364d67f", "title": "North Korea’s mining industry is collapsing, and steel may be next", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/11/north-koreas-mining-industry-just-collapsed-and-steel-may-be-next/", "published_at": "2018-11-13T05:36:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e39420d6", "title": "Moon Jae-in chases Kim Jong-un while South Korea’s economy burns", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/11/north-korea-monomania-chavezista-economics-are-wrecking-moon-jae-ins-presidency/", "published_at": "2018-11-02T03:05:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e43d6c9d", "title": "DOJ indicts Singaporean businessman for conspiring to violate North Korea sanctions", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/10/doj-indicts-singaporean-businessman-for-conspiring-to-violate-north-korea-sanctions/", "published_at": "2018-10-29T12:45:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e4d107ac", "title": "Moon Jae-in’s unilateral sanctions violations are decoupling South Korea’s alliance with the U.S. (updated)", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/10/moons-unilateral-sanctions-violations-are-decoupling-south-koreas-alliance-with-the-u-s/", "published_at": "2018-10-17T12:54:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e57f3c97", "title": "From Sunshine to solar eclipse: Can Moon Jae-in censor his way to reunification?", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/09/from-sunshine-to-solar-eclipse-can-moon-jae-in-censor-his-way-to-reunification/", "published_at": "2018-09-24T13:05:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e629add1", "title": "The U.S.-Korea alliance is “in jeopardy” & it’s not even (mostly) Trump’s fault", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/the-u-s-korea-alliance-is-in-jeopardy-its-not-even-mostly-trumps-fault/", "published_at": "2018-08-29T12:34:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e724b875", "title": "New head of S. Korea’s ruling party once said North’s abuses were “not something other countries can intervene in”", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/new-head-of-s-koreas-ruling-party-once-said-norths-abuses-were-not-something-other-countries-can-intervene-in/", "published_at": "2018-08-28T02:38:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e7d474cb", "title": "Why the domestic troubles of Trump & Moon are grave news for Koreans", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/why-the-domestic-troubles-of-trump-moon-will-mean-greater-dangers-in-korea/", "published_at": "2018-08-24T12:51:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e85fa1c6", "title": "If the deal-maker didn’t make a deal & the peace-maker didn’t make peace, could Twitter be wrong?", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/if-the-deal-maker-didnt-make-a-deal-the-peace-maker-didnt-make-peace-could-twitter-be-wrong/", "published_at": "2018-08-22T12:57:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1e9322f19", "title": "A new report says South Korea spends more to influence Washington than Israel, China & Saudi Arabia combined", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/a-new-report-says-south-korea-spends-more-on-lobbying-washington-than-israel-china-saudi-arabia-combined/", "published_at": "2018-08-21T12:50:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1ea215e5f", "title": "Guest Post: Finlandizing freedom’s frontier", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/guest-post-finlandizing-freedoms-frontier/", "published_at": "2018-08-20T10:33:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1eafbe5c5", "title": "On the contrary, it’s Washington that must take back our sovereignty from Moon Jae-in’s lobbyists", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/on-the-contrary-its-washington-that-must-claw-back-its-sovereignty-from-moon-jae-ins-lobbyists/", "published_at": "2018-08-18T17:24:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1eb9c6c2a", "title": "The Myth of Maximum Pressure: Why Trump’s North Korea sanctions strategy must change or fail", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/the-myth-of-maximum-pressure-why-trumps-north-korea-sanctions-strategy-must-change-or-fail/", "published_at": "2018-08-16T12:58:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1ebc5b37f", "title": "South Korea has been caught violating 3 UN resolutions this week (so far)", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/south-korea-has-been-caught-violating-3-un-resolutions-this-week-so-far/", "published_at": "2018-08-15T13:00:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1ec6c9273", "title": "South Korea implicated in large-scale violations of U.N. coal, shipping sanctions against North Korea", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/08/south-korea-is-cheating-on-north-korea-sanctions-and-there-must-be-consequences-for-that/", "published_at": "2018-08-07T12:32:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1ed5120b7", "title": "Kaesong is a buffalo jump for amoral politicians & unlawyered cretins", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/07/kaesong-is-a-buffalo-jump-for-amoral-politicians-unlawyered-cretins/", "published_at": "2018-07-26T13:03:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1edd18270", "title": "The Trump-Kim Pact was a con by both men. We’re the marks.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/07/the-trump-kim-pact-was-con-by-both-men-were-the-marks/", "published_at": "2018-07-05T04:42:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-e82a-7076-9788-3ea1ee11f341", "title": "Agreed Framework III: A fisking", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/06/agreed-framework-iii-a-fisking/", "published_at": "2018-06-12T13:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e486933c8", "title": "Why Trump can’t lift North Korea sanctions unilaterally", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/06/why-trump-cant-lift-north-korea-sanctions-unilaterally/", "published_at": "2018-06-11T12:54:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e48fd56ac", "title": "On Libya, as an ahistorical justification for North Korea’s nukes", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/05/libya-is-an-ahistorical-justification-for-north-koreas-nukes/", "published_at": "2018-05-18T12:34:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4983ae74", "title": "Then they came for the defectors, but I said nothing: Why the UNHCR must investigate the Ningpo 13 case", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/05/then-they-came-for-the-defectors-but-i-said-nothing-why-the-unhcr-must-investigate-the-ningpo-13-case/", "published_at": "2018-05-14T12:29:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e49fedd42", "title": "To save Korea’s democracy, withdraw its American security blanket", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/05/to-save-koreas-democracy-withdraw-its-american-security-blanket/", "published_at": "2018-05-09T11:04:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4a52c04c", "title": "Moon Chung-in throws U.S. Forces Korea out the Overton Window (Update: & so does Trump)", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/05/moon-chung-in-throws-u-s-forces-korea-out-the-overton-window/", "published_at": "2018-05-08T04:04:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4b4fc11e", "title": "North Korean Freedom Week is the next test for free speech in “free” Korea", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/05/north-korean-freedom-week-is-the-next-test-for-free-speech-in-free-korea/", "published_at": "2018-05-02T10:38:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4bc48a87", "title": "Moon Jae-in just put Seoul on a collision course with U.S. & U.N. sanctions (updated)", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/moon-jae-in-just-put-seoul-on-a-collision-course-with-the-u-s-u-n-sanctions/", "published_at": "2018-04-30T12:50:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4c2e71fe", "title": "The Warmbiers sue North Korea", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/the-wambiers-sue-north-korea/", "published_at": "2018-04-27T23:57:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4c9c9436", "title": "Steve Mnuchin is defying Congress & undermining the President’s North Korea policy", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/steve-mnuchin-is-defying-congress-undermining-the-presidents-north-korea-policy/", "published_at": "2018-04-25T13:02:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4cb0f03d", "title": "Will the real Im Jong-seok please speak up?", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/will-the-real-im-jong-seok-please-speak-up/", "published_at": "2018-04-25T02:53:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4d04340e", "title": "Moon Jae-in’s vision for reunification means One Slave Korea", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/moon-jae-ins-vision-for-reunification-means-one-slave-korea/", "published_at": "2018-04-23T12:58:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4dcc9ab1", "title": "“Liberal” South Korean government blocks filming of Thae Yong-ho’s speech; article reporting it vanishes (Updated)", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/liberal-s-korean-govt-blocks-filming-of-thae-yong-hos-speech-article-reporting-it-vanishes/", "published_at": "2018-04-16T12:35:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4eb4b536", "title": "Using the law to break Africa’s addiction to North Korean weapons", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/using-the-law-to-break-africas-addition-to-north-korean-weapons/", "published_at": "2018-04-11T12:38:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e4f3d38ce", "title": "South Korea’s “liberal” government is trying to censor the North Korea policy debate in America", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/south-koreas-liberal-government-is-trying-to-censor-the-north-korea-policy-debate-in-america/", "published_at": "2018-04-07T02:11:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e503bde19", "title": "How to build a big, beautiful (financial) wall around North Korea & make Kim Jong-un pay for it.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/04/how-to-build-a-big-beautiful-financial-wall-around-n-korea-make-kim-jong-un-pay-for-it/", "published_at": "2018-04-03T23:35:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e509b2dc8", "title": "Why we must break the Syria-North Korea WMD trade, and how we can", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/03/why-we-must-break-the-syria-north-korea-wmd-trade-and-how-we-can/", "published_at": "2018-03-16T12:46:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e518c6949", "title": "Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s board, search & sink their smuggling ships & show it on TV.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/03/hey-ive-got-an-idea-lets-board-search-display-sink-all-their-smuggling-ships/", "published_at": "2018-03-05T13:40:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-3c98-73c4-9da6-836e51dcfcdb", "title": "You want maximum pressure? Oh, I’ll show you maximum pressure.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/02/you-want-maximum-pressure-oh-ill-show-you-maximum-pressure/", "published_at": "2018-02-28T13:06:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c7498cefb", "title": "Neither talks for talks’ sake, nor sanctions for sanctions’ sake.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/02/neither-talks-for-talks-sake-nor-sanctions-for-sanctions-sake/", "published_at": "2018-02-15T14:01:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c75242b19", "title": "The media fawning over North Korea’s Censor-in-Chief is indefensible, yet they still defend it.", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/02/the-media-fawning-over-north-koreas-censor-in-chief-is-indefensible-yet-they-still-defend-it/", "published_at": "2018-02-14T13:33:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c752b5751", "title": "Dandong Delenda Est: A little-noticed law may soon raise the pressure on China over N. Korea’s smuggling", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/02/dandong-delenda-est-a-little-noticed-law-may-soon-raise-the-pressure-on-china-over-n-koreas-smuggling/", "published_at": "2018-02-02T14:01:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c75bf7482", "title": "Guest Commentary: How Pyongyang’s reunification plan outlived Seoul’s", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/01/guest-commentary-how-pyongyangs-reunification-plan-outlived-seouls/", "published_at": "2018-01-08T13:56:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c75e0557f", "title": "How Kim Jong-un, China & the autumn gales set a death trap for North Korea’s fishermen", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2018/01/how-kim-jong-un-china-the-east-winds-created-a-death-trap-for-north-koreas-fishermen/", "published_at": "2018-01-01T22:49:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c76738e36", "title": "Guest Commentary: On information as a second front against North Korea", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2017/12/guest-commentary-on-information-as-a-second-front-against-north-korea/", "published_at": "2017-12-19T13:25:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c7674cbe9", "title": "Korean War II: A Hypothesis Explained, and a Fisking (Annotated)", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2017/12/korean-war-ii-a-hypothesis-explained-and-a-fisking/", "published_at": "2017-12-11T12:05:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c76ac0a5a", "title": "A soldier’s defection and survival inspire two peoples … and perhaps, a third", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2017/12/a-soldiers-defection-survival-inspires-two-peoples-perhaps-soon-a-third/", "published_at": "2017-12-06T14:02:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c776d3d42", "title": "So, who else has cut trade with North Korea lately, and who still hasn’t?", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2017/12/so-who-else-has-cut-trade-with-north-korea-lately-and-who-still-hasnt/", "published_at": "2017-12-05T14:03:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-ddc1-716e-849f-cf9c77d7ddba", "title": "Korean War II: What the Joint Statements tell us about Pyongyang’s strategy", "url": "https://freekorea.us/2017/12/korean-war-ii-what-the-joint-statements-tell-us-about-pyongyangs-strategy/", "published_at": "2017-12-04T13:31:15+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Does Congress get a vote on the Iran deal? It’s complicated.original ↗
19 Jun 2026
In Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and North Korea, a fool’s conceit defeated usoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
Trump Expected Iranians to “Die for a Delcy,” and the People Did Not Comeoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2026
Zelensky plays his oil cards against Trump & Putinoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2026
Chosun Ilbo: Andrei Lankov arrested in Latviaoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2026
The coming Venezuela quagmire may not be the one you expectoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2026

2025

Planting My Standardoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2025
Seoul and Washington are quietly hiring their divorce lawyersoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2025
I could watch this video of exploding Russian bombers all day.original ↗
4 Jun 2025

2023

British American Tobacco, North Korea, & the Bomb: Setting a New Low for How Evil a Tobacco Company Can Beoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2023
The Root of All Evil: Money, Rice, Crime & Law in North Koreaoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2023

2022

No, North Korea did not “manage” COVID. It piled famine on plague.original ↗
22 Aug 2022
How sanctions helped bring down the Soviet Blocoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2022
The U.S. & South Korea should enforce existing sanctions against North Korea, not bargain for new onesoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2022
How Uygur and North Korea human rights activists can join forces to keep slave-made goods out of your closetoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2022

2021

Selling Slavery: South Korean investors’ $900,000 Kaesong lobbying campaignoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2021
For the first time, the Justice Department extradites a North Korean to stand trial in the U.S.original ↗
23 Mar 2021

2020

You can’t blame Donald Trump for filling Moon Jae-in’s cabinet with pro-Pyongyang ex-terroristsoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2020
Our S Korean ally has a plan to bail Kim Jong-un out, but it’s no better than the rest of themoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2020
Why DOJ’s deferred prosecution of Essentra FZE is a good deal for it, & for us.original ↗
17 Jul 2020
Will there be another Trump-Kim summit? Who knows? Will it do any good? No.original ↗
13 Jul 2020
The N.Y. Times, the Ningpo 12, Minbyun & Yoon Mee-hyang: The Story Behind the Storyoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2020
Feds unseal 14-count indictment against 33 agents of sanctioned North Korean bankoriginal ↗
28 May 2020
Tim Shorrock spreads disinformation about biological warfare in Korea. That makes him a disinformant.original ↗
28 May 2020
OFAC’s new North Korea (sort of) designationsoriginal ↗
13 May 2020
On OFAC’s new North Korea Sanctions regulationsoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2020
DOJ indicts 2 Chinese men for laundering stolen South Korean Bitcoin for North Korean hackersoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2020
Huawei & North Korea: Reading between the lines of EDNY’s new indictmentoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2020
Moon Jae-in’s Wednesday Night Massacre threatens the rule of law in Koreaoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2020

2019

The Warmbier Act could raise the pressure on Kim Jong-un dramatically, whether Donald Trump likes it or notoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2019
Review: Sandra Fahy, “Dying for Rights,” Columbia University Press, 2019original ↗
16 Dec 2019
Christine Ahn, Pak Chol, and the United Front Departmentoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2019
Report: Kim Jong-un starves his people, America blamed, women hardest hitoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2019
How South Korea’s “human rights lawyer” president waged a quiet war to silence North Korea human rights activistsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2019
Judge holds Chinese banks in contempt, fines them $50K a day for failing to comply with North Korea subpoenasoriginal ↗
16 May 2019
I’ll give you a topic. The final voyage of the “Wise Honest” was neither. Discuss.original ↗
10 May 2019
OFK Exclusive: Court orders three Chinese banks to comply with subpoenas for North Korea-related recordsoriginal ↗
1 May 2019
The “experts” were wrong. The sanctions are working.original ↗
23 Apr 2019
S. Korea’s ruling party thinks Korean journalists must “contribute to peaceful reunification, national reconciliation & the restoration of national homogeneity”original ↗
4 Apr 2019
“Liberal” South Korean authorities launch criminal investigation of political parody postersoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2019
State Department cites “liberal” South Korean government’s censorshiporiginal ↗
2 Apr 2019
How Congress can legislate maximum pressure over Donald Trump’s vetooriginal ↗
25 Mar 2019
UN Panel investigating South Korean sanctions violationsoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2019
Congress is losing confidence in Trump & Treasury on North Korea sanctionsoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2019
How to negotiate a lasting peace in Korea, feed the hungry, and heal the sickoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2019
Hanoi Redux: the Senate, the Supremes & Pompeo (also, Trump!) on the Iran dealoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2019
Save Congress a Seat at Hanoi: On North Korea, Sanctions, Treaties & Politicsoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2019
As Trump goes soft on North Korea, the Democrats are outflanking himoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2019
How to make Kaesong a safety valve for sanctions and a(nother) test of engagementoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2019

2018

Rape, revenge, sanctions & North Korea’s hated Ministry of Loveoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2018
Of course, Kim Jong-un’s tourist resorts will fail. Of course, we can help with that.original ↗
3 Dec 2018
DOJ sues to forfeit $3M linked to N. Korean money laundering, proliferation financing & slave labororiginal ↗
27 Nov 2018
In “liberal” South Korea, three journalists go on trial for criminal defamationoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2018
How engaging the wrong North Koreans set back openness, reform & peaceoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2018
North Korea’s mining industry is collapsing, and steel may be nextoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2018
Moon Jae-in chases Kim Jong-un while South Korea’s economy burnsoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2018
DOJ indicts Singaporean businessman for conspiring to violate North Korea sanctionsoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2018
Moon Jae-in’s unilateral sanctions violations are decoupling South Korea’s alliance with the U.S. (updated)original ↗
17 Oct 2018
From Sunshine to solar eclipse: Can Moon Jae-in censor his way to reunification?original ↗
24 Sept 2018
The U.S.-Korea alliance is “in jeopardy” & it’s not even (mostly) Trump’s faultoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2018
New head of S. Korea’s ruling party once said North’s abuses were “not something other countries can intervene in”original ↗
28 Aug 2018
Why the domestic troubles of Trump & Moon are grave news for Koreansoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2018
If the deal-maker didn’t make a deal & the peace-maker didn’t make peace, could Twitter be wrong?original ↗
22 Aug 2018
A new report says South Korea spends more to influence Washington than Israel, China & Saudi Arabia combinedoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2018
Guest Post: Finlandizing freedom’s frontieroriginal ↗
20 Aug 2018
On the contrary, it’s Washington that must take back our sovereignty from Moon Jae-in’s lobbyistsoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2018
The Myth of Maximum Pressure: Why Trump’s North Korea sanctions strategy must change or failoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2018
South Korea has been caught violating 3 UN resolutions this week (so far)original ↗
15 Aug 2018
South Korea implicated in large-scale violations of U.N. coal, shipping sanctions against North Koreaoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2018
Kaesong is a buffalo jump for amoral politicians & unlawyered cretinsoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2018
The Trump-Kim Pact was a con by both men. We’re the marks.original ↗
5 Jul 2018
Agreed Framework III: A fiskingoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2018
Why Trump can’t lift North Korea sanctions unilaterallyoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2018
On Libya, as an ahistorical justification for North Korea’s nukesoriginal ↗
18 May 2018
Then they came for the defectors, but I said nothing: Why the UNHCR must investigate the Ningpo 13 caseoriginal ↗
14 May 2018
To save Korea’s democracy, withdraw its American security blanketoriginal ↗
9 May 2018
Moon Chung-in throws U.S. Forces Korea out the Overton Window (Update: & so does Trump)original ↗
8 May 2018
North Korean Freedom Week is the next test for free speech in “free” Koreaoriginal ↗
2 May 2018
Moon Jae-in just put Seoul on a collision course with U.S. & U.N. sanctions (updated)original ↗
30 Apr 2018
The Warmbiers sue North Koreaoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2018
Steve Mnuchin is defying Congress & undermining the President’s North Korea policyoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2018
Will the real Im Jong-seok please speak up?original ↗
25 Apr 2018
Moon Jae-in’s vision for reunification means One Slave Koreaoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2018
“Liberal” South Korean government blocks filming of Thae Yong-ho’s speech; article reporting it vanishes (Updated)original ↗
16 Apr 2018
Using the law to break Africa’s addiction to North Korean weaponsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2018
South Korea’s “liberal” government is trying to censor the North Korea policy debate in Americaoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2018
How to build a big, beautiful (financial) wall around North Korea & make Kim Jong-un pay for it.original ↗
3 Apr 2018
Why we must break the Syria-North Korea WMD trade, and how we canoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2018
Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s board, search & sink their smuggling ships & show it on TV.original ↗
5 Mar 2018
You want maximum pressure? Oh, I’ll show you maximum pressure.original ↗
28 Feb 2018
Neither talks for talks’ sake, nor sanctions for sanctions’ sake.original ↗
15 Feb 2018
The media fawning over North Korea’s Censor-in-Chief is indefensible, yet they still defend it.original ↗
14 Feb 2018
Dandong Delenda Est: A little-noticed law may soon raise the pressure on China over N. Korea’s smugglingoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2018
Guest Commentary: How Pyongyang’s reunification plan outlived Seoul’soriginal ↗
8 Jan 2018
How Kim Jong-un, China & the autumn gales set a death trap for North Korea’s fishermenoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2018

2017

Guest Commentary: On information as a second front against North Koreaoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2017
Korean War II: A Hypothesis Explained, and a Fisking (Annotated)original ↗
11 Dec 2017
A soldier’s defection and survival inspire two peoples … and perhaps, a thirdoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2017
So, who else has cut trade with North Korea lately, and who still hasn’t?original ↗
5 Dec 2017
Korean War II: What the Joint Statements tell us about Pyongyang’s strategyoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2017
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