| The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia A Lankov Oxford University Press, 2013 | 553 | 2013 |
| From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 AN Lanʹkov Rutgers University Press, 2002 | 292 | 2002 |
| Bitter taste of paradise: North Korean refugees in South Korea A Lankov Journal of East Asian Studies 6 (1), 105-137, 2006 | 187 | 2006 |
| Crisis in North Korea: the failure of de-Stalinization, 1956 A Lankov University of Hawaii Press, 2007 | 180 | 2007 |
| North Korean refugees in northeast China A Lankov Asian Survey 44 (6), 856-873, 2004 | 146 | 2004 |
| North of the DMZ: Essays on daily life in North Korea A Lankov McFarland, 2014 | 128 | 2014 |
| The Natural Death of North Korean Stalinism A Lankov asia policy 1 (1), 95-121, 2006 | 71 | 2006 |
| Changing North Korea: An information campaign can beat the regime A Lankov Foreign Aff. 88, 95, 2009 | 70 | 2009 |
| North Korean market vendors: The rise of grassroots capitalists in a post-Stalinist society A Lankov, K Seok-Hyang Pacific Affairs, 53-72, 2008 | 70 | 2008 |
| Staying alive: Why North Korea will not change A Lankov Foreign Affairs, 9-16, 2008 | 62 | 2008 |
| Making money in the state: North Korea's pseudo-state enterprises in the early 2000s A Lankov, P Ward, H Yoo, J Kim Journal of East Asian Studies 17 (1), 51-67, 2017 | 58 | 2017 |
| The resurgence of a market economy in North Korea A Lankov Carnegie Endowment for International Peace., 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| Pyongyang Strikes Back: North Korean Policies of 2002-08 and Attempts to Reverse" De-Stalinization from Below" A Lankov asia policy 8 (1), 47-72, 2009 | 42 | 2009 |
| The dawn of modern Korea: The transformation in life and cityscape AN Lanʹkov (No Title), 2007 | 41 | 2007 |
| Kim Takes Control: The" Great Purge" in North Korea, 1956—1960 AN Lankov Korean Studies, 87-119, 2002 | 40 | 2002 |
| Kim Il Sung's Campaign against the Soviet Faction in Late 1955 and the Birth of Chuch'e AN Lankov Korean Studies 23 (1), 43-67, 1999 | 37 | 1999 |
| The organizational life: Daily surveillance and daily resistance in North Korea AN Lankov, I Kwak, CB Cho Journal of East Asian Studies 12 (2), 193-214, 2012 | 36 | 2012 |
| Why the United States will have to accept a nuclear North Korea A Lankov The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 21 (3), 251-264, 2009 | 22 | 2009 |
| North Korea's new capitalists and their workers: Business practice and labor relations A Lankov, P Ward, H Yoo, J Kim Communist and Post-Communist Studies 50 (3), 157-167, 2017 | 20 | 2017 |
| The Demise of Non-Communist Parties in North Korea (1945–1960) AN Lankov Journal of Cold War Studies 3 (1), 103-125, 2001 | 20 | 2001 |
