South Korea floats building nukes amid US neglect
As North Korea continues to modernize its arsenal and Washington dithers on diplomacy, some in Seoul are amping up rhetoric.
As North Korea continues to modernize its arsenal and Washington dithers on diplomacy, some in Seoul are amping up rhetoric.
Van Jackson has a clear warning for policymakers, that they ignore the full history of the US role in Asia at our collective peril.
Seoul and Pyongyang appear to have calculated that being on opposing sides bolsters their relative positions on the Peninsula.
Harsh economic penalties rarely, if ever, work to change a targeted regime’s behavior; so why do we still use them?
Time to move towards making North Korea a responsible nuclear weapons state. The alternative could be much more terrifying.
Pyongyang’s missile tests are getting closer and closer to Seoul. If Biden has a long-term strategy for peace, we need to see it.
Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman just reaffirmed that Washington would maintain first use to protect ‘our allies.’
North Korea is responding to US demonstrations of strength with their own, and it could get dangerous.
So what should the US be doing about it? Perhaps it needs to throw out the old playbook.
Kim Jong Un again threatens to go nuclear — maybe this time Washington and Seoul will react the right way. Here’s how.
Fake news about Kim Jong-Un gets wall-to-wall coverage but citizens of a key ally opposing a joint military exercise goes largely unnoticed.
Washington needs to look beyond the nuclear threat to work toward a sustainable peace on the peninsula.
While it might seem like the right thing to do at the moment, military showcasing doesn’t replace the hard work of diplomacy.
President Yoon Suk-yeol campaigned as a hawk, but domestic constraints and economic considerations are now coming into play.
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.
President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s early personnel appointments suggest Seoul’s foreign policy will take a hardline turn.
The conservative Yoon Suk-yeol will take a harder line on North Korea and China. This might be harder — and more dangerous — than it sounds.
The conservative has won the closest presidential race in the country’s history — so where does he stand on the contentious issues?
Follow the money fomenting conflict on the Korean Peninsula, and all roads lead to Annie M.H. Chan.
New brief underscores need for flexible diplomacy, including gradual concessions that can be reversed if not reciprocated.