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One year ago on June 12, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in a historic summit in Singapore.
U.S. restriction on Huawei could be a boon to Korea’s struggling export industry, but potential gains may be erased by China’s retaliatory measure.
Kim Jong-un's summits with the leaders of China, South Korea, Russia, and the United States have raised Kim’s profile but have not gained him what...
During 2017-18, international attention turned to the Korean Peninsula as the threat of conflict reached new heights. This led to an explosion in the growth...
A Putin-Kim summit suggests that North Korea’s options are limited if talks with the U.S. fail, as its unclear how much support Russia could provide.
The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign has led to the imposition of a nearly comprehensive international sanctions regime targeting North Korea and its nuclear weapons...
Can sanctions be wiggled like a wrench back and forth to get what we need from North Korea, not only on nuclear issues but economic...
By Robert R. King The North Korean Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Kim Song, last week made an urgent request on behalf of...
Despite the U.S.-ROK agreement on a preliminary cost-sharing deal for U.S. troops in South Korea, its atypically short-term nature continues to raise risks
The measure of success for the second summit should be whether two leaders can agree to a process of negotiation to be conducted by officials at...
The South Korean government must advance talks between Washington and Pyongyang without full clarity on North Korea's definition of denuclearization.
Seismic activities in the area around North Korea's nuclear testing site raise questions about future earthquakes, and even possibly volcanic activities.
If 2017 was the year of “fire and fury,” 2018 saw the United States and North Korea turn from the rhetoric of war to diplomacy.
Convening a peace conference to conclude the Korea War could involve issues stretching back to World War II and cooperation on sources of future friction.
The important question to ask is whether U.S. negotiators can craft a denuclearization agreement that does not depend on Kim Jong-un's trustworthiness.