Author: Leon Havana

Germany’s political class spent years pretending that the costs of mass migration were imaginary, or at least too impolite to mention. That lie has finally […]

The visit by Xi Jinping to Pyongyang inside DPRK did not behave like a turning point and was not framed internally as one. There was […]

Bougainville has been here before in one form or another: promised timelines, political frameworks, carefully worded commitments that suggest movement without ever fully guaranteeing arrival. […]

In case you missed it, the foreign minister of Singapore, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, has just completed a two day meeting in Pyongyang with North Korean […]

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 was launched as a sweeping attempt to fundamentally restructure the kingdom’s economy away from oil dependency. It was presented as a […]

While often described as the last truly Marxist state, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has in reality undergone a slow but very visible economic […]

The 24th Pyongyang Spring Trade Fair has concluded in Pyongyang. The event, the first to include large foreign delegations, took place between May 3rd–8th and […]

There was recently an article in the Wall Street Journal calling Cambodia “Scambodia” because of the scam call centers where people work in slave‑like conditions […]

Songkran 2026 once again exposed the gap between how Thailand markets its New Year festival and how it actually plays out across roads, cities, and […]

Cuba is not collapsing. It is being strangled. For over six decades, the United States has tried to suffocate the island in economic, political, and […]