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Seeing like a state: Kim watching a military drill, Pyongyang, November 2014

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Perception and Misperception on the Korean Peninsula

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. Failure to do so could lead the United States to stumble into the worst conflict since World War II.

Robert Jervis and Mira Rapp-Hooper

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Trump Administration Feb 22, 2019 Snapshot

What to Expect at the Second North Korea Summit

As U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gear up for a second face-to-face meeting at a summit in Hanoi, denuclearization seems as far away...

Victor Cha and Katrin Fraser Katz

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Trump and Kim during their first meeting in Singapore, June 2018

U.S. Foreign Policy Jan 16, 2019 Snapshot

How the U.S. Can Step Up in the South China Sea

In devising how best to lead the effort to counter China in the South China Sea, Washington could take a page from its own playbook in the East China Sea.

Gregory Poling and Bonnie S. Glaser

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga sail in formation with 16 other ships during Keen Sword in the Philippine Sea, November 2018.

U.S. Foreign Policy Jan 11, 2019 Snapshot

The Year of Living Dangerously With Nuclear Weapons

The United States could find itself in not one but three nuclear crises in the next 12 months: one with North Korea, one with Russia, and one with Iran.

Nicholas L. Miller and Vipin Narang

A ballistic rocket launch drill of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army is seen at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang, March 2016.

U.S. Foreign Policy Dec 4, 2018 Snapshot

Can the U.S. Reinstate “Maximum Pressure” on North Korea?

If current trends continue, any attempt to reinstate maximum pressure may well prove ineffective. The hard collapse of diplomacy could dangerously narrow U.S. policy...

Eric Brewer

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attend a meeting in Singapore, June 2018.

WMD & Proliferation Nov 19, 2018 Snapshot

The Right Way to Manage a Nuclear North Korea

Washington needs to accept that North Korea will remain a nuclear power for the foreseeable future and manage the situation accordingly.

Ankit Panda

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a long range rocket launch into the air in North Korea, February 2016.

WMD & Proliferation November/December 2018 Comment

Armed and Dangerous

The real nuclear challenge is what to do when personalist dictatorships, such as North Korea, get the bomb. Careful handling and creative policymaking might contain...

Scott D. Sagan

Politics & Society Oct 3, 2018 Snapshot

Learning to Love Kim's Bomb

North Korea's nuclear arsenal may be more opportunity than threat.

Joshua Shifrinson

U.S. Foreign Policy Sep 5, 2018 Snapshot

The U.S. Needs a New North Korea Strategy

As bilateral negotiation efforts falter after Singapore, the U.S. needs to rethink its North Korea strategy.

Christopher R. Hill

U.S. Foreign Policy Aug 13, 2018 Snapshot

North Korea's Nuclear Program Isn't Going Anywhere

Sixty days since the Singapore summit, North Korea continues to expand its nuclear and ballistic missile arsenals and has played its diplomatic hand brilliantly.

Ankit Panda and Vipin Narang

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects Chunghung farm in Samjiyon County, North Korea in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), July 2018.

U.S. Foreign Policy Jul 9, 2018 Snapshot

How Diplomacy With North Korea Can Work

A broader North Korean peace process would actually do more to ease progress on denuclearization, as well as multiple other fronts.

Philip Zelikow

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean Director of the United Front Department Kim Yong Chol meet at the Park Hwa Guest House in Pyongyang, July 2018.

U.S. Foreign Policy Jun 19, 2018 Snapshot

There Were No Losers at the Singapore Summit

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

Chung-in Moon

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet at the start of their summit at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore, June 2018.

Trump Administration Jun 15, 2018 Snapshot

The Big Winner of the Singapore Summit

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 clear...

Bonnie S. Glaser and Oriana Skylar Mastro

Trump Administration Jun 12, 2018 Snapshot

A Historic Breakthrough or a Historic Blunder in Singapore?

No previous U.S. president considered it prudent to embark on summitry with so little preparation or on terms so favorable to the other side, let alone to promise to...

Daniel R. Russel

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk after lunch at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018.

Trump Administration Jun 11, 2018 Postscript

Bringing Real News to North Koreans

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.

Jieun Baek

U.S. Foreign Policy Jun 8, 2018 Snapshot

North Korea Is Ultimately China's Problem

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.

Isaac Stone Fish and Robert E. Kelly

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Dalian, China in this undated photo released in May 2018.

Strategy & Conflict Jun 1, 2018 Postscript

A Better North Korea Strategy

The United States must embed its approach to North Korea within a broader strategy that advances long-term U.S. interests in the region, including, but not limited to,...

Victor Cha and Katrin Fraser Katz

Missiles at a military parade in Pyongyang, February 2018

Trump Administration May 30, 2018 Snapshot

Is a Deal With North Korea Really Possible?

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 between...

Joseph Yun

U.S. Foreign Policy May 25, 2018 Snapshot

Korea Summitry

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 North...

Richard N. Haass

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in this May 9, 2018 photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, May 2018.

Trump Administration May 16, 2018 Snapshot

Deciphering Kim Jong Un's Motives

Trump should think strategically about the motivations of all the summit’s key players: North Korea, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia. What is it that they really...

Michael Green

Arms Control & Disarmament Apr 30, 2018 Snapshot

A Real Path to Peace on the Korean Peninsula

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...

Chung-in Moon

Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom, April 2018.

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