Trump’s “art of the deal” is about to get its most high-profile test yet. The early prognosis is… not good.
How Those Trump-Kim Talks Might Go: A Transcript
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North Korea
Trump’s Dangerous Nuclear Posture
Donald Trump wants more nukes. How is that going to help defuse the crisis in Korea?
While the Two Koreas Talk, Trump Is Throwing Shade
The White House seems hell bent on hijacking an Olympic moment of inter-Korean unity.
Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe
Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the Pentagon.
There Are Thousands of People Who Could Launch a Nuclear War
It’s scary to think of Donald Trump or Kim Jung-un with a nuclear button. Scarier are all the nameless functionaries with the same.
North Korea Is Walking Back War — And Pundits Are Strangely Disappointed
Pundits seem more concerned about the North driving a “wedge” between the U.S. and the South than about preventing nuclear war.
In the Nuclear Standoff, Ordinary North Koreans Disappear
An advocate for North Korean refugees outlines an alternative approach to political change and regional peace in Korea.
North Korea: The Costs of War, Calculated
Even a limited war with North Korea would kill millions, devastate the environment, and bankrupt the U.S. Preventing it should be the peace movement’s highest priority.
How the U.S. Could Provoke a New Korean War
The bare bones of a deal with North Korea may exist, but senseless provocations could set off a conflict long before then.
Asia’s Other Nuclear Standoff
By roping India and Japan into its standoff with China, the U.S. is raising the nuclear stakes in Asia — including, dangerously, between India and Pakistan.