On September 1, a ban on U.S. travel to North Korea went into effect, prohibiting the use of U.S. passports to enter the DPRK except under limited circumstances. The State Department had formally announced the measure a month before it took effect, citing the “serious risk to United States nationals of arrest and long-term detention” while traveling to the country. ... | Read More

On September 3, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test, with DPRK state media announcing soon afterward that the country had successfully tested a "two-stage thermo-nuclear weapon" capable of being fitted to an ICBM. ... | Read More

George Vitale has been enaging in Taekwon-Do diplomacy between the United States, North Korea, and South Korea since the early 1990s. Check out his story. ... | Read More

The latest edition of NCNK's North Korea Nuclear Newsletter covering Trump's North Korea policy, the US-South Korea summit, and more. ... | Read More

NCNK expresses its deepest condolences to the family of Otto Warmbier. The following is a statement they released upon his passing on June 19, 2017. ... | Read More

NCNK is pleased to release a new report providing a comparative assessment of the role that Track II talks and other forms of people-to-people engagement initiatives have played in addressing the challenges posed by Iran and North Korea. The report is informed by the findings of a March 23, 2017 workshop convened by the National Committee on North Korea and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ... | Read More

Congressmen Schiff (D-CA) and Wilson (R-SC) have introduced a bipartisan House bill (H.R.2732) that could limit tourist and potentially other types of U.S. travel to North Korea.  ... | Read More

NCNK is launching a new newsletter to provide regular updates on issues related to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs and Korean Peninsula security issues. ... | Read More

The National Committee on North Korea and the East-West Center are pleased to announce the launch of a new pilot project, North Korea in the World. ... | Read More

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) has recently introduced H.R. 1644, the Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act. NCNK's summary of the legislation, as amended, is available here. ... | Read More