Analyst access to help you make 
Korea-related decisions in confidence

As an extra to NK PROyour team can get direct and private conference call access to our analytic team on a schedule to suit your preferences.

Private NK PRO analyst calls can help you forecast risk on projects taking place both inside North Korea – or outside, where there is scope to be affected by North Korean actions.

Leading indicators on threat

Forecast risk, maximize opportunity

Make executive decisions in confidence

Decades of combined expertise

When it comes to understanding issues of concern relating to North Korea, consulting with NK PRO specialists in times of crisis can help you make decisions with the highest levels of confidence.

Having specialist journalists whom can share unpublished background information and analysts who can help you make sense of threatening developments, our private conference calls provide an efficient means to gather the exact information you need to make executive decisions.

When tensions mount, NK PRO journalists and analysts can work together to notify you of developments to keep you one step ahead of the news cycle. 

And if you've got custom queries or concerns, our team can leverage its network to find answers at an unparalleled speed.

NK PRO is managed and staffed by a team of Korea and regional experts. They each have their own area of expertise and come from a range of supporting backgrounds, including military, foreign affairs, non-governmental agencies, and academia. 

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Due to capacity limits, this service is only offered to a highly limited number of organizations per year.

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Analyst access to help you make Korea-related decisions in confidence

As an extra to NK PROyour team can get direct and private conference call access to our analytic team on a schedule to suit your preferences.

Get a quote on our private conference call service today. Users normally find it valuable in conjunction with:

How can NK PRO help?

Due to capacity limits, this service is only offered to a highly limited number of organizations per year.

When it comes to understanding issues of concern relating to North Korea, consulting with NK PRO specialists in times of crisis can help you make decisions with the highest levels of confidence.

Having specialist journalists whom can share unpublished background information and analysts who can help you make sense of threatening developments, our private conference calls provide an efficient means to gather the exact information you need to make executive decisions.

When tensions mount, NK PRO journalists and analysts can work together to notify you of developments to keep you one step ahead of the news cycle. 

And if you've got custom queries or concerns, our team can leverage its network to find answers at an unparalleled speed.

NK PRO is managed and staffed by a team of Korea and regional experts. They each have their own area of expertise and come from a range of supporting backgrounds, including military, foreign affairs, non-governmental agencies, and academia. 

Decades of combined expertise

Make executive decisions in confidence

Forecast risk, maximize opportunity

Leading indicators on threat

Private NK PRO analyst calls can help you forecast risk on projects taking place both inside North Korea – or outside, where there is scope to be affected by North Korean actions.

The Aviation Tracker

The Aviation Tracker tracks commercial flights to, from, and within North Korea.

The world’s only North Korea-specific tool for observing flights going into and out of the DPRK.

Track commercial flights to, from, and within North Korea.

The Aviation Tracker is designed to help you measure the North’s economic activities--especially the transportation of sanctioned materials--as well as understand shifting trends in tourism, and visualize North Korea’s diplomatic relations.

Using radio technology, visual sightings and other open sources, the NK Pro Aviation Tracker provides comprehensive information on the movement of aircraft to, from and within North Korea. Based on historical data going back to 1970, our flight data comes from a unique combination of three sources aggregated in a way not used anywhere else.

Some examples of how you can use the tracker:

  • Kim Jong Un’s bodyguards arrive in Hanoi on Air Koryo IL-76 cargo plane
  • In unusual move, five Air Koryo planes head to Vladivostok on Monday
  • U.S.A.F. cargo plane left Pyongyang on Saturday morning, flight purpose unknown
  • Amid increased sanctions, Air Koryo flights decreased by 22% in 2017: data
  • Orascom private jet pays unreported trip to North Korea

Former deputy commander for the First ROK Army

Historian, Kookmin University

North Korea Specialist & Anchor, YTN

Jane's Defense, Tokyo

Political Economist, UCSD

Long-time NK News Contributor

Meet our staff writers and contributors

Korea Risk Group offers a combination of unique staff perspectives and skillsets to understand the DPRK in a simply unrivaled manner. 

Staff include:
Andrei Lankov, Director
 
Andrei Lankov writes exclusively for NK News and NK PRO as one of the world's leading authorities on North Korea. A graduate of Leningrad State University, he attended Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung University from 1984-5. 
Bryan Betts, Managing Editor
 
Bryan Betts is the Managing Editor of NK News. He has covered the Koreas for Yonhap News Agency, The Diplomat and Korea Exposé and previously worked as a newspaper reporter in South Carolina and New Mexico.
Chad O'Carroll, Founder & CEO
 
O'Carroll founded NK News, the genesis for NK PRO, in 2010 after visiting the DPRK as a tourist. Having worked at the UN, think tanks in Washington, DC, and written for multiple newspapers, Chad specializes in both writing news and analysis.
Colin Zwirko, Senior Analytic Correspondent
 
Zwirko is a Seoul-based correspondent who focuses on a range of subjects including diplomatic affairs, DPRK infrastructure, and trade issues. Furthermore, he is a satellite imagery specialist and produces regular work in this area. 
Alannah Hill, Deputy Managing Editor
 
Alannah Hill works as Deputy Managing Editor at Korea Risk Group, where she puts the final touches on content across NK PRO, KOREA PRO and NK News.
Jeongmin Kim, Lead Correspondent
 
Jeongmin Kim is a lead correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. She previously worked for the CSIS Korea Chair and in the Seoul bureau of Reuters news agency. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim
Kylie Pak, Project Officer
 
Kylie Pak is a project officer at NK News, based in Seoul. She previously worked for the Sejong Institute. Her graduate research focuses on U.S.-DPRK diplomatic relations.
Nils Weisensee, Chief Product Officer
 
Nils brings together years of journalism experience with major international media, a North Korea skillset cultivated through an operations role with the Choson Exchange NGO, and business-smarts from his startup activities in Shanghai.
Peter Ward, Contributing Analyst
 
Ward is one of the world's leading specialists on DPRK economic, agricultural and legislative issues. As a fluent Korean speaker who has visited the DPRK several times, Ward's niche-focus analysis is unmatched in the open-source.
Seung-Yeon Chung, State Media Specialist
 

Seung-Yeon Chung is a state media specialist at NK News. She previously worked in the Department of Unification and Foreign Ministry at Korean Broadcast System (KBS).

Regular contributors include:
Chun In-Bum
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Wang Son-taek
Kosuke Takahashi
Stephan Haggard
Tatiana Gabroussenko
Shreyas Reddy, Seoul Correspondent
 
Shreyas Reddy is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter @shreyas_k_reddy.