North Korea
Our research primarily focuses on North Korean nuclear diplomacy, countering proliferation finance and the sanctions regimes imposed to address proliferation threats, as well as the structure, operations, and evasion tactics of North Korean proliferation networks.
Our experts
James Byrne
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Joe Byrne
Former RUSI Research Fellow
Jack Crawford
Research Fellow
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Darya Dolzikova​
Research Fellow
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Gary Somerville
Former RUSI Research Fellow
Fellows
Dr Aaron Arnold
Senior Associate Fellow; Former member of the UN Panel of Experts for DPRK sanctions
Centre for Finance and Security
Andrea Berger
Associate Fellow
Dr Stephan Blancke
RUSI Associate Fellow
Emil Dall
Associate Fellow; Sanctions Lead at FINTRAIL
Sasha Erskine
Former Research Analyst
Dr Myong-Hyun Go
Associate Fellow; Senior Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea
Dr Ashley Hess
Associate Fellow
Kayla Izenman
Associate Fellow; Former CFCS Research Fellow, RUSI
Paulina Izewicz
Associate Fellow
Tom Plant
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Samuel Ramani
Associate Fellow; Tutor of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Cristina Varriale
Associate Fellow
Tim Willasey-Wilsey CMG
Senior Associate Fellow
Related projects
Access related projects and programmes on North Korea
DPRK Reports is an initiative providing open access to high-quality, structured data from the United Nations North Korea Panel of Experts’ reports in an accessible format.
This project uses open source tools to analyse North Korea’s chemical industry, examining the extent to which it can support a chemical weapons programme.
RUSI is part of a consortium utilising novel research methods and advances in remote sensing technologies to analyse North Korea’s WMD capabilities and inform robust policy recommendations.
Exploring non-traditional security issues in North Korea and their impact on Korean Peninsula peace prospects, security and unification.
This Project is an initiative to systematically analyse North Korea’s proliferation, procurement and sanctions evasion networks.
The Trilateral Nuclear Dialogues convene current and former senior officials and experts from the US, France and the UK to discuss nuclear policy issues.
This project examines past cases of North Korean technology transfers to other states, and applies these lessons to recent developments in North Korean missile and nuclear capabilities
This project applies research in training key stakeholders to disrupt the illicit financial activities of proliferators such as North Korea and Iran.
