My latest at the Diplomat expresses skepticism that the North Korean nuclear test is something to get all that excited about: The first and most important lesson is that North Korean policy towards its neighbors does not appear to have appreciably changed in Kim Jong...
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Early, but looks as if the Norks may have just "expended some fissile material." Jeffrey Lewis thinks maybe 10kt (probably bigger than either of the previous two tests), but obviously.
Two days ago, David Axe posted a short piece on the Diplomat blog reporting that a US general had indicated that US and ROK special forces could be operating in.
Two bits about North Korea this morning. First, in my WPR column I argue that the transition will likely involve factional conflict in North Korea, and that it's worth reaching out to some of these factions: It is wrong to say that the U.S. can...
North Korean television reports that Kim Jong Il has died. No RIP on this one. North Korean national website has no info. Hard even to conceive of the potential implications.
This sucks: An estimated 200 North Korean nationals are in Libya and previously worked as doctors, nurses and construction workers, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. They had been dispatched.
Now this is fascinating. Jeffrey Lewis discusses a startling claim by AQ Khan: Simon Henderson and I disagreed on an issue related to the broader question of whether North Korean officials really showed AQ Khan three nuclear weapons. I said North Korea didn’t have enough...
I've written a summary of the Patterson School's Spring Crisis Simulation (this year focusing on the Korean Peninsula) over at ID. Check it out.
A boat with 31 North Korea citizens drifted into South Korea waters and was picked up. North Korea being the kind of place that people sometimes don't like going back.
Words, words, words: South Korea will swiftly and strongly respond with force until North Korea surrenders if the communist state launches another assault, the South's new defence minister said. Kim Kwan-Jin issued the warning on Saturday, during his inauguration speech after President Lee Myung-Bak officially...
One of the more interesting cables revealed by Wikileaks involved a meeting between Russian and US diplomats that touched on the question of Iran-North Korea collaboration. One of the key.
My latest column at WPR involves Wikileaks and North Korea: Of course, the collapse of North Korea would require intense negotiations between all of the major regional actors, including Japan,.