Stimson Center’s 38 North project, in partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has created a snapshot of the DPRK’s coal industry published on Tearline, the NGA’s open source publishing platform. The platform was created to grow public-facing, authoritative open source intelligence on various strategic, economic, and humanitarian intelligence topics that tend to be under-reported within in-depth or long-form formats. This authoritative open source content is created for two purposes: 1) it is cited for internal production and 2) it grows public trust by increasing transparency around shared public-private interest in various intelligence topics that are fit for public consumption.

READ “A SNAPSHOT OF NORTH KOREA’S SUPPLY CHAIN COAL ACTIVITY”