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Any intensification of the military tension between North Korea and the United States would be calamitous, and requires a patient, innovative and informed approach by policymakers.
Regardless of how the US sending an aircraft carrier group to the Korean Peninsula plays out, the international community will ultimately have to accept and learn to manage a nuclear North Korea.
Beyond her own personal humiliation, the ramifications of Park’s fall are already reverberating from domestic South Korean politics into the fraught geopolitics of Northeast Asia.
Tensions in Asia may soon boil over. If U.S. leaders fail to seek pathways to peace, the consequences may be grim, warns former National Security Council member.
Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.
The incoming Trump administration could do worse than learn from China in devising a new policy of economic engagement with North Korea.
The world’s most isolated country has a lot going on – and its complex internal dynamics are too often overlooked.
A rare glimpse of North Korea’s political strategy offers no earth-shattering revelations, but clears up a lot of unanswered questions.
When North Korea held its sixth party congress in 1980, its stagnant economics were much the same – but its worldview was utterly different.
North Korea remains committed to perfecting a deployable nuclear weapon capability. It is confident in the understanding that there appears little the international community can do to prevent it.
North Korea has been signalling an uptick in its nuclear programme for a while – and its strategy is as clear as ever.
After an exuberant 70th birthday party, North Korea is getting back down to business. Just how sustainable that busniess is remains to be seen.
The restart of a North Korean nuclear facility has sent shockwave around the world. Why is it happening now?
For a man who likes to be called ‘outstanding leader’ and ‘brilliant comrade’, Kim Jong-un is strangely unwilling to strut his stuff on the world stage.
In our series looking at relations between the Russians and the nations along its borders, this instalment turns the spotlight on North Korea.
Sony’s decision to cancel the Christmas Day release of its film The Interview is drawing harsh criticism from Hollywood’s elite. George Clooney is asking everyone to stand up against the cancellation…
The release of The Interview, an American comedy depicting the death of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, has been cancelled. A massive cyberattack on Sony, widely blamed on Pyongyang, and apparent threats against…
After a month’s absence from public life, fuelling idle speculation about a possible coup, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has at last reappeared in public. Limping with a cane, in line with reports he…
North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong-un has now been in power for more than two years. He has largely stuck to the ideological principles that his father, Kim Jong-il, and grandfather, Kim Il-sung, had introduced…
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