State-sanctioned violence and militarism form the foundation of the rejuvenated North Korea-Russia partnership, and that should shape how U.S. and South Korean alliance planners read...

The Iran war may push North Korea to lower its nuclear threshold rather than raise it, and that is the lesson U.S. and South Korean...

The ongoing conflict in Iran will harden, not moderate, North Korea's nuclear resolve, with implications for U.S.-South Korea security planning.

The two nations are steeped in the same ideological brew of ultra-nationalism, hyper-militarism, and illiberalism.