Blowing up the de-nuke playbook: Got any better ideas?
Time to move towards making North Korea a responsible nuclear weapons state. The alternative could be much more terrifying.
Time to move towards making North Korea a responsible nuclear weapons state. The alternative could be much more terrifying.
Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman just reaffirmed that Washington would maintain first use to protect ‘our allies.’
So what should the US be doing about it? Perhaps it needs to throw out the old playbook.
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.
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.
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.
Regardless of the outcome of the presidential contest, Biden will not have the luxury of leaving Korean issues on the back burner, any longer.
Coercive tactics could generate blowback among Asian countries divided on what to do about Beijing’s rise.
Over-the-top displays of strength can be viewed as part of a contest for military supremacy on the peninsula.
Upon his death, the time is ripe for Washington to reckon with its role in the South Korean dictator’s brutal rise to power.
There are legitimate challenges facing a formal end to the war, but they can be overcome through balanced analysis.
I served along the DMZ in South Korea 65 years after the start of that conflict, and still have friends stationed there today.
There is some logic to the idea that Seoul should have its own deterrent. But proliferation brings a host of new problems no one is quite ready for.
Lackluster US diplomatic efforts have allowed recent missile tests in the North and South to fill the void.
The two Koreas cannot by themselves stop the climate crisis, but they can establish a model that the rest of the world can follow.
The beleaguered regime is making a lot of demands these days — the administration would be wise in what it offers.