North Korea’s continued existence depends on expanding freedom and the economy while contracting its nuclear weapons program.
A Death Knell for the North Korea Regime
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North Korea
Korean Reunification: The View from the North
An unusual poll reveals what North Koreans are thinking about reunification.
The Madness of THAAD
The US push for missile defense in Asia will only lead to more missiles and less defense.
Women’s Delegation to Cross DMZ
Gloria Steinem will be leading a group of women from South Korea to North Korea. Why are critics taking aim at this important gesture?
Carrots for Cuba, Sticks for North Korea
As one cold war thaws, another refreezes.
Breathless in North Korea
For 60 years, Koreans on both sides of the DMZ have awaited a peace treaty. Instead they’ve gotten an arms race and political repression.
Looking Backwards, Pivoting Sideways
Washington’s past and present foreign policies are sustaining the fraught security environment in East Asia.
My Strategic Impatience
For North Korea to rise higher on the list of U.S. priorities, Washington policymakers will have to stop considering it in isolation.
Why North Korea Today Is Not East Germany 1989
Policymakers have long predicted that North Korea will go the way of East German Communism. Not so fast.
Kim the Third
No one performs Shakespeare in the theaters of Pyongyang. Instead, he is enacted in the corridors of power.