Scott Jasper, The Diplomat
Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
Mitchell Lerner, The Diplomat
Stangarone, Kwon & Taves, CNN
Francesco Sisci, Asia Times

The global commons – vital for trade and other flows – are under growing threat. Action is needed to protect them....(full article)

With North Korea likely to field a reliable nuclear deterrent within the next 5-10 years, the U.S. has a closing window of opportunity to end the cyclical provocations from Pyong...(full article)

Beijing calls the shots in North Korea? History shows that thinking is misguided....(full article)

Whether threatening to turn Seoul into a “sea of fire” or describing the recent summit meeting between Presidents Barack Obama and Park Geun-hye as a prelude to war, over-the-...(full article)

China is losing patience with North Korean leader Kim Jong-eun, slowly but surely moving into the US orbit to deal with his threats and blackmail. As Beijing will sooner than later...(full article)
For all his faults, Kim Jong-Un is a man who knows how to have a good time. When not building ski resorts or sexting wife #2 on his smartphone, he’s trying to raise the peopl...
This may be premature, but our hope is that the peninsula will see a virtuous circle of positive development, the resumption of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex and Seoul’s aid in...
The new conservative government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making a push to try and resolve the decades-long dispute with North Korea over the fate of a dozen Japanese it clai...
One point that distinguishes the Park Geun-hye administration from its predecessor is a more flexible policy toward North Korea. But whatever the reason may be, inter-Korean relati...
Political cartoonists love to portray North Korea as an irrational and infantile force. It's either a baby with a nuclear rattle or a little truant in need of a timeout. The relati...
Accounts suggest that Pyongyang acquired scientists for developing nuclear program decades before publicly acknowledging it....
Comparisons have been made, especially by conservatives, that the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last September was another Watergate. In fact, the Pueblo I...
North Korea watchers say Pyongyang's frequent military shakeups ― most frontline commanders have allegedly been replaced in recent months ― may be proof that the young North Ko...
Although a symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, the once noble Kaesong experiment has long been a failure....
As history shows, new nuclear states such as North Korea usually probe the limits of their power and test how other international actors respond. But consider this: Once escalation...
Between the 1960s and ’80s, South Korea’s general-turned-presidents visited the United States to seek economic aid, security guarantees and U.S. endorsement of their legitimacy...
Ask yourself: Do you oppose putting U.S. troops everywhere, all the time? If you answered yes, you might be an isolationist, according to the word’s new definition....
When North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced the American citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” – a lesser charge than the capital ...
On Thursday, North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor for committing "hostile acts" against the government. The severe punishment raises a...
Both Israel and the United States now believe that chemical weapons have been used in Syria's civil war, most likely by Syrian government forces. If the rebels have even some of th...
The crisis on the Korean peninsula appears to have died down, but we shouldn't be fooled just because it's no longer front-page news. Serious problems remain that could flare...
North Korea has not ended its hostile moves, causing a fear that it may carry out rocket launches and its fourth nuclear explosion test. South Korea has decided to withdraw its rem...
Thanks to sure-footed diplomacy by Secretary of State John Kerry, South Korea's President Park Geun-hye and Chinese leaders, the outrageous rhetorical threats of nuclear attack by ...
Seoul needs to set limits before returning to its joint economic venture with North Korea....
It remains in Beijing’s self-interest to provide aid to Pyongyang. The alternatives, like a North Korean collapse, could be far worse....
North Korea has kept this region on edge in recent weeks primarily by using its weapon of choice in times of warmongering: the state-run news agency. The massive wire service, kno...
I DEFECTED from North Korea in 2004. I decided to risk my life to leave my home country — where I worked as a psychological warfare officer for the government — when it...
North Korea's Chief of General Staff Hyon Yong Chol pledged at the 81st anniversary of the inauguration of the Korean People's Army to mass-produce precise miniaturized nuclear wea...
Life inside North Korea's closed borders is hard to imagine. One of the only insights into how ordinary people live, beyond the official line of the regime, comes from those who ha...
Why does China tolerate North Korea’s extraordinary behaviour? The relationship is an unusual one – not based on mutual respect and friendship but on cold calculation. Beijing ...
Do we really want the North Koreans to prove they can launch a nuke with a missile?...
Last month, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution establishing a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to look into conditions in North Korea. Given Pyongyang's recent nuc...
It is understandable that a growing number of Americans are frustrated with what seems like a never-ending stream of Northern belligerence, and with the seeming inability of Amer...
If Kim Jong-un thinks he can shake down Washington by threatening nuclear apocalypse, President Obama says, the belligerent North Korean dictator has another think coming....
No one of any significance is accusing Korean Americans of putting the interests of South Korea above those of the US....
North Korea’s recent nuclear brinkmanship is a sign not of strength but of weakness. No matter how hard this Communist dynasty tries to conceal this fact from the outside wor...
A common mistake of the mainstream media is their penchant for tunnel vision. The bombings in Boston are a clear case where the news media give Americans the impression that the wo...
The United States and South Korea are negotiating a new nuclear cooperation agreement that will have consequences for the conflict with North Korea and President Obama’s broa...
Two years of tumult, revolt and change in the Arab world have emboldened Iranian leaders, intensifying their determination to gain access to nuclear capabilities....
Countries do not pursue ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) or nuclear weapons simply to accumulate bargaining chips. Pyongyang is devoting massive amounts of scarce resour...
Toward the conclusion of his visits to Seoul, Beijing, and Tokyo this week, Secretary of State John Kerry held out an olive branch to Kim, saying he hoped to “find a way for ...
Chinese leaders perceive a divided Korea as serving China’s national interests, but they would vastly prefer a saner, more stable and more pragmatic government in North Korea...
The U.S. recovery of the front section of a ballistic missile fired by North Korea in December 2012 was the basis for the Defense Intelligence Agency's assessment with moderate con...
Officials below the power circle of the Kim family may not play an overt role in N. Korea, but are vital to understanding the regime and its future....
On April 15, 1969, a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane helmed by Lt. Cmdr. James Overstreet was conducting a routine patrol over the Sea of Japan in international airspace, Korean and...
How much longer will we refuse to face facts? North Korea calls itself military-first, and behaves accordingly. It is frank enough in the espousal of race thinking to have won the ...
The two Koreas have just finished a first round of sounding each other out about resuming their severed dialogue. The result, as expected, was disappointing with North Korea brushi...
The most significant geopolitical events of the past half century have been unanticipated. Not that we did not expect them, but they were supposed to happen in the distant future, ...
Destroying the North Korean missile before it is launched is the best of bad options on the Korean Peninsula. A prolonged crisis would undermine regional security and global effort...
Nothing about the international response to North Korea's third nuclear test in February or subsequent provocations has been unreasonable. The crisis is entirely of Pyongyang's mak...
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a co-author and key proponent of the Senate immigration bill, s...
GEISMAR, La. (AP) — Ambulances and helicopters took at least 30 people from a burning chemical pla...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Living in a rural Nevada town, Moe Royels recalls a more bustling time years ago...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unpaid internships have long been a path of opportunity for students and recent ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Nearly 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in Syria since an uprising against P...