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North Korea’s state television released a propaganda video about its recent missile launch featuring Kim Jong Un. Screenshot accessed via Korea Now, the official YouTube Channel of the Yonhap News Agency, from the embedded video below. Yonhap is funded in whole or in part by the Korean government.

North Korea tests a banned missile—and glamorizes nuclear weapons

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Idaho National Laboratory’s Fuel Conditioning Facility supports work to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a nuclear recycling technique called pyroprocessing. Photo Credit: Fuel Conditioning Fact Sheet, Idaho National Laboratory.

Why joint US-South Korean research on plutonium separation raises nuclear proliferation danger

By Jungmin Kang, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

South Korean missiles on display at the Korean War Memorial. Credit: Daniel Foster. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

How bad would a nuclear-armed South Korea be? Let us count the ways.

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

A drive-thru coronavirus testing site.

What a MERS outbreak taught South Korea, why kids draw the coronavirus, and more: The best disruptive tech stories of 2020

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un

After Biden’s election victory, what’s North Korea’s next move?

By Duyeon Kim | Columnists, Nuclear Risk

South Korean submarine

South Korea’s risky quest to build nuclear-powered attack submarines

By Seoc Woo Kim, Jungmin Kang, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

In 2020, as tens of thousands of people in the United States continued to test positive for COVID-19 each week, many wondered if it was really time to reopen the economy. Credit: US Army. CC BY 2.0.

When to reopen the economy during the coronavirus pandemic? South Korea’s got a plan and the numbers to back it up

By HyunJung Kim | Biosecurity

2020 elections in South Korea

Interview: Duyeon Kim on South Korea’s elections in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Republic of Korea Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets. Photo credit: ROK Air Force

How to keep South Korea from going nuclear

By Duyeon Kim | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Donald Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone

Don’t be surprised when South Korea wants nuclear weapons

By Byong-Chul Lee | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by Alias 0591 CC BY 2.0.

Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula begins with a peace declaration

By David Kim | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

BTS, the “atomic bomb shirt,” and South Korean attitudes toward nuclear weapons

By Viet Phuong Nguyen | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons