North Korea

Critics of the U.S.-North Korean summit in Singapore are wrong to label Pyongyang the "winner" of the meeting. 

Athough pundits debate whether it was North Korea or the United States that benefited the most from the summit, there was a less visible player that came out a...

No previous U.S. president considered it prudent to embark on summitry with so little preparation or on terms so favorable to the...

What keeps Kim in power is not just nuclear weapons, but also the powerful narrative that is spun to keep the North Korean people from rebelling.

China is both the country most responsible for facilitating North Korea’s provocations and the one with the most to lose should the regime collapse.

The United States must embed its approach to North Korea within a broader strategy that advances long-term U.S. interests in the...

Focusing on Trump and Kim’s game of hot and cold is that it is diverting focus from the more fundamental issue at hand: what a minimally successful agreement...

With the June 12 Singapore summit off for now, the Trump administration needs to rethink its desire for a quick, sweeping deal that solves the problem posed by...

Trump should think strategically about the motivations of all the summit’s key players: North Korea, China, South Korea, Japan,...

For all the remaining challenges, a comprehensive peace deal including real denuclearization by North Korea is achievable in a couple of years, if not in the months...

For Beijing, the ultimate goal of the Xi-Kim meeting was not to patch up the relationship with Pyongyang but to shape the...

To have any chance of success, U.S. strategy toward North Korea must be guided by an accurate sense of how Kim’s regime thinks and what it knows about Washington....

The Trump administration must ground its summit diplomacy and overall approach to North Korea in a strategy of...

Complete denuclearization is not possible in the meaningful future, and therefore, an immediate suspension of the most worrisome developments followed by a...

Even if Trump and Kim hash out a deal, there is little reason for Abe to believe that Kim will give up his nuclear and missile capabilities.

Forestalling a return to dangerous escalation will require more than just diplomacy between the two Koreas. President Moon Jae-in must find a way to bridge the...

The disagreements between the White House and the Pentagon stem from more than mere wariness of Trump's volatility.

The key to a successful North Korea sanctions strategy is recognizing that such measures take time to achieve results.

The Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan illegally proliferated nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea over the course of decades. What lessons...

To prevent large-scale refugee flows in the event of a regime collapse, the United States, China, and South Korea would need to work together to provide food, clean...