Special report | North Korea
North Korea is changing, but still dangerous
Attempts at reconciliation have stalled
IN THE SUMMER of 2019, South Koreans were shocked by the news that a North Korean woman, who had fled her country through China a decade before, had died with her young son in her flat in Seoul. Weeks passed before a building manager found the bodies. Authorities concluded she had starved.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “A god-king with nukes”