The North Korean regime has lashed out at Australia, describing its participation in current military exercises with the US and South Korea as ‘a suicidal act of inviting disaster’.
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In recent years, the number of people traveling to sites of death, natural disaster, acts of violence, tragedy and crimes against humanity has dramatically increased. Is it immoral?
A former Department of Defense and State Department official explains why a hardline approach on North Korea will likely fail, as it did with Iran.
Reports of North Korea’s capability of firing nuclear weapons are not the only serious threat to global security. North Korea has also become an aggressive cyber power.
There is much debate over how to react to North Korean missile threats. What can we learn from Israel’s responses to actual rocket attacks?
In international relations, words matter – and so does the credibility of the speaker.
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how did North Korea get them?
Far from a belligerent rogue state, North Korea is isolated, broke and hungry for attention.
Soot thrown into the atmosphere would block out the sun, causing crops to fail and people to go hungry.
A week ago, the leaked transcript of the January telephone call between Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump revealed Turnbull had told the president, “You can count on me. I will be there again and again…
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dealt Australia into the argument over how to respond to North Korea’s brinkmanship over its nuclear weapons program. Speaking on Melbourne radio on Friday morning Turnbull…
The issue with Donald Trump’s ad-hoc response and commentary on North Korea is the inconsistent messages this sends to an already paranoid and isolated regime.
Totalitarian countries have many spokespeople, but they speak with a single voice. That’s a big propaganda advantage.
The most viable nonmilitary solution to the standoff with North Korea is to get China to apply pressure. But that’s not so easy.
Refresh your knowledge on the origins of North Korea’s nuclear threat and the options world leaders have to deal with it.
South Korea has a very particular part to play in handling Pyongyang, but Moon Jae-in has a different one in mind.
The tensions between North Korea and the US over its long range ballistic missile programme echo a well-known James Bond plot.
Kim Jong-il and Bill Clinton looked to have done a deal to curb North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme for good. What went wrong?
An aggressive posture is one thing – but doing something about it is another, as countries factor in the costs and risks of aggression.
The first week of July is not normally one that brings great events in world politics. Around that time, the northern hemisphere normally shifts into summer holiday mode. Recently, this has become less…
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