NORTH KOREAN
REVIEW​ ONLINE
​SUBMISSIONS & GUIDELINES
General Information
North Korean Review publishes two issues per year, one in spring and one in fall. Issues are published at the end of March and September.
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Authors wishing to appear in the spring issue must submit their articles for consideration by December 1st.
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Those wishing to appear in the fall issue must submit their articles for consideration by June 1ST.
Peer review may take up to 2-4 Months. Online access to issue articles may take up to 3 months following publication depending upon the schedule of the online access provider.
NKR welcomes policy-oriented articles (up to 7,000 words) and short papers, commentaries, and cases (up to 4,000 words) on relations between North Korea and other countries. Papers about economics, business, culture, history, politics, international relations and other academic disciplines are accepted for consideration.
To submit an article for possible publication in NKR, please submit your paper as an email attachment in Microsoft Word to the editor. Authors will receive an email confirmation when their articles are received.
For further details about preparing an article and formatting files, please refer to the style guide on the right.
Submit all manuscripts and editorial inquiries about NKR to:
Lonnie Edge
Yonsei Institute of North Korean Studies
Kim Dae Jung Library
#302, 5-26 Sinchon-ro 4 gil, Mapo-gu
Seoul 121-818
South Korea
Book Reviews
NKR publishes short summaries of all books received and complete reviews of
selected books. Authors and/or publishers interested in having a summary or review of a North Korea–related book appear in our journal should send a complimentary copy to the book review editor.
In addition, an unfortunate fact of the field of Korean studies in general is that there is a gap between scholars from different countries created by problems of Korean language ability or lack thereof.
Accordingly, NKR shall also, on occasion, consider for publication reviews written in English of North Korea–related books published not only in Korean but also Japanese, Chinese, and Russian languages.
​Completed reviews (up to 2,500 words) should be sent to the book review editor Bernhard Seliger (seliger@hss.or.kr) and cc’d to the managing editor, Lonnie Edge (nkrjournal@gmail.com).
Books currently available for review are:
Submission Deadlines
1 DEC
Submission for the Spring Issue
31 MAR
Publication of the Spring Issue
1 JUN
Submission for the Fall Issue
30 SEP
Publication of the Fall Issue
2025
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Abrahamian, Andray. (2020). Being in North Korea. Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
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Chang, Min-hua. (2022). The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamics. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
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Chung, Byung-Ho. (2024). Suffering and Smiling: Daily Life in North Korea. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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Hutchinson, George A. (2024). North Korea’s Nuclear Decisions and Strategies: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Bomb. Routledge.
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Goldring, Edward & Ward, Peter. (2025). Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond. Cambridge University Press.
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Greitens, Sheena Chestnut. (2023). Politics of the North Korean Diaspora. Cambridge University Press.
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Lim, Sojin. (2024). International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea. Routledge.
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Tertitskiy, Fyodor. (2024). The Forgotten Political Elites of North Korea: Woe to the Vanquished (1st ed.). Routledge.
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Ayhan, Kadir Jun & Brendan Howe. (2023). Comprehensive Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula: Internal Dynamics in North Korea and South Korean Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore.
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Buzo, Adrian. (2023). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
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Cha, Victor & Ramon Pacheco Pardo. (2023). Korea: A New History of South and North. Yale University Press.
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Choi, Shine; Chiew-Ping Hoo; Brian Bridges. (2024). Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence. Routledge.
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Han, Jongwoo. (2023). The Metamorphosis of U.S.-Korea Relations: The Korean Question Revisited. Lexington Books.
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Lee, Su-Mi. (2023). Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea: Cohesion and Disarray. State Univ of New York Press.
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Schmid, Andre. (2024). North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965.University of California Press.
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Thae, Yong-ho. (2024). Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider's Account of Life Among North Korea's Political Elite. Columbia University Press.
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2023​​​​
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Cha, Victor & Ramon Pacheco Pardo. (2023). Korea: A New History of South and North. Yale University Press.
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Hecker, Siegfried S. w/ Serbin, Elliot A. (2023). Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program. Stanford University Press.
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Kim, Suzy. (2023). Among Women across worlds: North Korea in the global Cold War. Cornell University Press.
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Lee, Su-Mi & Roehrig, Terence. (2023). Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea: Cohesion and Disarray. State University of New York Press.
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Lee, Sung-Yoon. (2023). The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jung, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea. Macmillan.
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Lim, Hyun-Joo. (2024). North Korean Women and Defection: Human Rights Violations and Activism. Bristol University Press.
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Manning, Gerry. (2024). North Korea Aviation: An Eyewitness Account. Key Publishing.
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Pandey, Hina. (2023). Nuclear Conundrum of Iran and North Korea 'From Proliferation Crisis to Non-Proliferation Promise?'. Routledge.
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Snyder, Scott & Kyung-Ae Park. (2022). North Korea's Foreign Policy: The Kim Jong-un Regime in a Hostile World. Rowman & Littlefield.
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2022​​
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Carlin, Robert & Moon, Chung-in. (2022). Understanding Kim Jong-un's North Korea: Regime Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement. Lexington Books.
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Chiang, Min-Hua. (2022). The Political Economy of North Korea: Domestic, Regional, and Global Dynamic. Lynne Rienner.
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He, Baogang & Hundt, David & Pan, Chengxin. (2022). China and Human Rights in North Korea: Debating a “Developmental Approach” in Northeast Asia. Routledge.
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Jackson, Andrew David. (2022). The Two Koreas and their Global Engagements. Palgrave.
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Jung, Tae Yong & Kang, Sung Jin (Eds.). (2022). Development Prospects for North Korea. Routledge.
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King, Robert R. & Shin, Gi-Wook. (2022). The North Korean Conundrum: Balancing Human Rights and Nuclear Security. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
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Liu, Jinlong. (2022). Crying Forests: Political Ecology in the DPRK. Springer.
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Park, Jiyun & Chai, Seh-Lynn. Baldwin-Beneich, Sarah (trans.). (2022). The Hard Road Out: Escaping North Korea. Harper North.
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Park, Joowon. (2022). Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process. University of California Press.
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Shin, Haeran (ed.). (2022). North Korean Defectors in Diaspora: Identities, Mobilities, and Resettlements. Lexington.
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Stallard, Katie. (2022). Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea. OUP.
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Theroux, Marcell. (2022). The Sorcerer of Pyongyang. Corsair.
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Tudor, Daniel. (2022). Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation. Tuttle.
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White, Geoff. (2022). The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War. Penguin.​
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Call for Blog Entries
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NKR also welcomes, for its blog, articles related to the relations between North Korea and other countries. The size of the article should not exceed 2,000 words and be focused on a specific and preferably current topic. All articles should be sent to the managing editor, Lonnie Edge (nkrjournal@gmail.com).