North Korea’s isolation is its greatest liability
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
Pyongyang’s latest provocations are largely being ignored and the White House appears to have no strategy. This is folly.
Regardless of the outcome of the presidential contest, Biden will not have the luxury of leaving Korean issues on the back burner, any longer.
Economic sanctions have demonstrably failed to change North Korean behavior. So, when is the world going to try something new?
If we are to keep punishing the North with sanctions, the least we can do is understand the people who are affected by them.
Listen closely — he’s not talking about going to war but about something quite different. Is Biden listening?
Reports that a key reactor has been restarted indicates Kim Jong Un is frustrated with Biden’s lack of diplomatic urgency. Is he right?
The beleaguered regime is making a lot of demands these days — the administration would be wise in what it offers.
If the president wants to prove that ‘diplomacy is back,’ he needs to step it up and start shedding past failed approaches.
Tucked into this 400-page document is a recipe for keeping ‘maximum pressure’ on Kim Jong Un and a 70-year war going.
The new administration is promoting the failed idea that sanctions can be used for leverage — and Kim Jong Un is responding predictably.
Donald Trump’s North Korea policy has failed. South Korean President Moon Jae-in has the mandate, and the competence, to take over and lead.