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Comparisons have been made, especially by conservatives, that the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last September was another Watergate. In fact, the Pueblo I...(full article)
North Korea watchers say Pyongyang's frequent military shakeups ― most frontline commanders have allegedly been replaced in recent months ― may be proof that the young North Ko...(full article)
Although a symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, the once noble Kaesong experiment has long been a failure....(full article)
As history shows, new nuclear states such as North Korea usually probe the limits of their power and test how other international actors respond. But consider this: Once escalation...(full article)
Between the 1960s and ’80s, South Korea’s general-turned-presidents visited the United States to seek economic aid, security guarantees and U.S. endorsement of their legitimacy...(full article)
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Ask yourself: Do you oppose putting U.S. troops everywhere, all the time? If you answered yes, you might be an isolationist, according to the word’s new definition....
North Korea's Dangerous Hostage Game - Gordon Chang, The Daily Beast
When North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced the American citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” – a lesser charge than the capital ...
What's 'Hard Labor' Like in North Korea? - John Hudson, Passport
On Thursday, North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor for committing "hostile acts" against the government. The severe punishment raises a...
Syria a Dry Run for Iran, North Korea? - Brian Jenkins, World Report
Both Israel and the United States now believe that chemical weapons have been used in Syria's civil war, most likely by Syrian government forces. If the rebels have even some of th...
How to Negotiate with North Korea - Joel Wit & Jenny Town, The Atlantic
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North Korea has not ended its hostile moves, causing a fear that it may carry out rocket launches and its fourth nuclear explosion test. South Korea has decided to withdraw its rem...
How to Keep North Korea in Check - Donald Gross, Huffington Post
Thanks to sure-footed diplomacy by Secretary of State John Kerry, South Korea's President Park Geun-hye and Chinese leaders, the outrageous rhetorical threats of nuclear attack by ...
For South Korea, No Respect, No Kaesong - Bruce Klingner, LA Times
Seoul needs to set limits before returning to its joint economic venture with North Korea....
China's North Korea Dilemma - Julia Famularo, The Diplomat
It remains in Beijing’s self-interest to provide aid to Pyongyang. The alternatives, like a North Korean collapse, could be far worse....
State-Run News North Korea's Weapon of Choice - Chico Harlan, Wash Post
North Korea has kept this region on edge in recent weeks primarily by using its weapon of choice in times of warmongering: the state-run news agency. The massive wire service, kno...
The Market Will Set North Korea Free - Jang Jin-Sung, New York Times
I DEFECTED from North Korea in 2004. I decided to risk my life to leave my home country — where I worked as a psychological warfare officer for the government — when it...
Stay on Guard Against North Korea - Yomiuri Shimbun
North Korea's Chief of General Staff Hyon Yong Chol pledged at the 81st anniversary of the inauguration of the Korean People's Army to mass-produce precise miniaturized nuclear wea...
They Eat Each Other in North Korea - Stephanie Hegarty, BBC
Life inside North Korea's closed borders is hard to imagine. One of the only insights into how ordinary people live, beyond the official line of the regime, comes from those who ha...
China's Rational Support for North Korea - Timothy Beardson, FT
Why does China tolerate North Korea’s extraordinary behaviour? The relationship is an unusual one – not based on mutual respect and friendship but on cold calculation. Beijing ...
Do We Really Want to Call North Korea's Bluff? - Jeff Lewis, Foreign Policy
Do we really want the North Koreans to prove they can launch a nuke with a missile?...
Exposing North Korea's Reign of Evil - Freedom House
Last month, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution establishing a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to look into conditions in North Korea. Given Pyongyang's recent nuc...
Patience, Not Pre-Emption, in Korea - Mitchell Lerner, The Diplomat
It is understandable that a growing number of Americans are frustrated with what seems like a never-ending stream of Northern belligerence, and with the seeming inability of Amer...
On North Korea, Kerry Muddles the Message - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
If Kim Jong-un thinks he can shake down Washington by threatening nuclear apocalypse, President Obama says, the belligerent North Korean dictator has another think coming....
Korea, Iran and the Dual-Loyalty Myth - Ben Cohen, JNS.org
No one of any significance is accusing Korean Americans of putting the interests of South Korea above those of the US....
North Korea's Palace Intrigue - Nicholas Eberstadt, New York Times
North Korea’s recent nuclear brinkmanship is a sign not of strength but of weakness. No matter how hard this Communist dynasty tries to conceal this fact from the outside wor...
North Korea's Forgotten Atrocities - Lamont Colucci, World Report
A common mistake of the mainstream media is their penchant for tunnel vision. The bombings in Boston are a clear case where the news media give Americans the impression that the wo...
Toward a Nuclear Deal With South Korea - New York Times
The United States and South Korea are negotiating a new nuclear cooperation agreement that will have consequences for the conflict with North Korea and President Obama’s broa...
Libya, Korea Guide Iran's Nuke Program - Majid Rafizadeh, The National
Two years of tumult, revolt and change in the Arab world have emboldened Iranian leaders, intensifying their determination to gain access to nuclear capabilities....
So What Does North Korea Really Want? - Victor Cha, JoongAng Daily
Countries do not pursue ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) or nuclear weapons simply to accumulate bargaining chips. Pyongyang is devoting massive amounts of scarce resour...
The Problem with the Asia Pivot - Clifford May, National Review
Toward the conclusion of his visits to Seoul, Beijing, and Tokyo this week, Secretary of State John Kerry held out an olive branch to Kim, saying he hoped to “find a way for ...
China and Its North Korea Problem - David Curtis Wright, Globe and Mail
Chinese leaders perceive a divided Korea as serving China’s national interests, but they would vastly prefer a saner, more stable and more pragmatic government in North Korea...
A Dangerous Overture to North Korea - Foreign Policy Initiative
The U.S. recovery of the front section of a ballistic missile fired by North Korea in December 2012 was the basis for the Defense Intelligence Agency's assessment with moderate con...
Pyonyang Machiavelli: All of Kim's Men - Adam Cathcart, The Diplomat
Officials below the power circle of the Kim family may not play an overt role in N. Korea, but are vital to understanding the regime and its future....
The Day North Korea Killed 31 Americans - Mark Sauter, RealClearHistory
On April 15, 1969, a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane helmed by Lt. Cmdr. James Overstreet was conducting a routine patrol over the Sea of Japan in international airspace, Korean and...
Why Everyone Gets North Korea So Wrong - B.R. Myers, Newsweek
How much longer will we refuse to face facts? North Korea calls itself military-first, and behaves accordingly. It is frank enough in the espousal of race thinking to have won the ...
Diplomatic Buck-Passing on North Korea - Korea Times
The two Koreas have just finished a first round of sounding each other out about resuming their severed dialogue. The result, as expected, was disappointing with North Korea brushi...
Korean Unification Coming Soon? - Paul Gregory, Hoover Institution
The most significant geopolitical events of the past half century have been unanticipated. Not that we did not expect them, but they were supposed to happen in the distant future, ...
Bomb North Korea, Before It's Too Late - Jeremi Suri, New York Times
Destroying the North Korean missile before it is launched is the best of bad options on the Korean Peninsula. A prolonged crisis would undermine regional security and global effort...
Getting Kim Jong-un's Attention - O'Hanlon & Mochizuki, Brookings
Nothing about the international response to North Korea's third nuclear test in February or subsequent provocations has been unreasonable. The crisis is entirely of Pyongyang's mak...
Inside the Mind of Kim Jong-un - Ernesto Londono, Washington Post
When Kim Jong-un first appeared in Pyongyang’s carefully stage-managed public spotlight in the fall of 2010, North Korea watchers began scouring for clues to learn whether th...
The Korean Crisis: A Glossary - Todd Crowell, RealClearWorld
Bureau 39: Sometimes known as "Office 39." It refers to a shadowy agency that manages the North Korean leadership's slush fund gained mainly from illicit business dealings such as ...
Enough Already: Let North Korea Test a Missile - Peter Jones, Globe & Mail
A curious dynamic has seized the world in the past week concerning the latest iteration of North Korea’s ongoing game of blackmail by brinkmanship. The North, a failed state ...
What North Korea Means for U.S.-China Relations - The Economist
Both America and China accept that sooner or later they will have to engage the North Korean regime in some sort of dialogue. So both have an interest in talking North Korea down f...
South Korea Is the Real Problem Here - Edward Luttwak, Foreign Policy
Unwilling to deter North Korea -- which would require a readiness to retaliate for its occasionally bloody attacks and constant provocations, thereby troubling business and roiling...
Kim Jong-un Is Our Best Hope - Zachary Gallant, RealClearWorld
Despite the vague nature of data on North Korea, existing evidence leads one to conclude that this nuclear state, run by a relative child declaring war on the West, should alarm us...
Obama Administration Aimless in Korea - New York Times
North Korea poses a more imminent nuclear threat than Iran. But so far, Mr. Kerry’s continuing trip does not make us confident that the administration has a fully thought out str...
Obama Dangerously Naive on N. Korea - Lefkowitz & Whiton, Wash Post
The Obama administration is revealing a dangerous naivete regarding North Korea. In response to its threat to attack the United States and its allies, senior administration officia...
On North Korea, Keep Calm and Carry On - Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato
North Korea has caused more nervousness than usual in the international community in recent weeks. American pundits and political figures have a serious case of the jitters. There ...
Kim Jong-un's Dangerous Game - David Ignatius, Washington Post
One unlikely benefit of the North Korea crisis is that the world may be getting fed up with the country's pugnacious young leader, Kim Jong Un. In his belligerent talk of war, Kim ...
Who Pays for North Korea's Mind Games? - Bradley Martin, Global Post
It's been four decades since Pyongyang's Kims came to understand the grave threat to their job security posed by South Korea's rapid development. The first- and second-generation ...
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