Has North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong Un made a strategic decision to trade away his nuclear program, or is he just engaged in another round of deceptive...
After some two years of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the reprieve, however brief, that the upcoming Winter Olympics in the South Korean city of...
Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea has just been elected South Korea’s new president. This is the second conservative-to-liberal transition of power...
The impeachment, and removal from office, of South Korean President Park Geun-hye on charges of corruption and abuse of power has rocked the country’s...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprisingly restrained reaction to North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test has left many observers wondering what his next...
In his State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress in 2002, President George W. Bush famously described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an “axis of evil.”...
A vast revolution in military affairs is taking place across East Asia. The latest signs are Chinese President Xi Jinping’s purge of General Xu Caihou, an...
After a spring of heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, a flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks has brought some hope of a meeting of the...
The world’s task in addressing North Korea’s saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and effectively defeated country....
Whether East Asia’s politicians and pundits like it or not, the region’s current international relations are more akin to 19th-century European...
Last month, the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea agreed to begin negotiations later this year on a trilateral free-trade agreement, or FTA. If the...
According to North Korean state television, the heart attack that killed Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17 was “due to severe mental and physical stress from...
Like many regions of the world, Northeast Asia faces severe political challenges in creating a viable structure of peace. But, given China’s rising power,...
Hubris usually gives birth to disaster. The root cause of the current global crisis was intellectual hubris in the form of the blind belief that markets would...
The long-delayed meeting of North Korea’s ruling Worker’s Party has finally taken place, at a time of severe tension between North Korea and the...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s recent visit to China has further complicated South Korea’s response to the probable culprit – North Korea...