Adam Cathcart

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un stands alongside China's President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on January 8. Photo: KCNA via KNS/AFP

Opinion

Was Kim’s China visit an economic lifeline for border development?

17 Jan 2019 - 8:02pm 1

North Korean cheerleaders perform during the women's preliminary round ice hockey match between the unified Korea team and Switzerland at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics on February 10. Photo: AFP

Insight & Opinion

North Korean women lead the way, and not just at the Olympics

15 Feb 2018 - 11:21pm

Developments have turned against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently, columnist Adam Cathcart writes. Photo: AFP

Opinion

Fraying China ties should worry Kim Jong-un as US boosts war talk

31 Dec 2017 - 10:49pm 8

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s younger sister Kim Yo-jong (centre, behind Kim Jong-un) has become one of the most powerful women in North Korea. Photo: KCNA

Opinion

Sister’s promotion consolidates Kim family’s control of North Korea

22 Oct 2017 - 9:15pm 3

Adam Cathcart says China’s long-term strategy remains tied to the nurturing of an entrepreneurial class in North Korea and free trade zones along the frontier

Opinion

Trade ties drive China’s dance around North Korean nuclear threat

26 Aug 2017 - 1:45pm

Adam Cathcart says Donald Trump’s preoccupation with the Russian collusion scandal shows signs of breaking down the US message on North Korea

Insight & Opinion

White House must conquer its chaos to have robust dialogue with Pyongyang

30 Jul 2017 - 10:12pm 2

North Koreans soldiers and civilians ride in the back of a truck in Pyongyang during Kim Il-sung's 105th birth anniversary military parade on April 15. Photo: AP

Diplomacy

Opinion: how China truly views potential war

24 Apr 2017 - 4:58pm 11

An undated photo released last April by the North Korean Central News Agency of a test firing of a missile from a submarine. Photo: EPA

Diplomacy

Xi and Trump at impasse on how to deal with North Korea

8 Apr 2017 - 9:38am 2

A file photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong-n at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo: AP

Diplomacy

Rough patch for China-North Korea ties but break-up still far off

5 Mar 2017 - 10:38pm

Few intellectual profits to be had from trying to figure out the logic of next US president’s China policy

Diplomacy

Trumpian Absurdism and US-China relations

21 Dec 2016 - 10:45pm 6