Juxtaposing US Policy Towards Iran and Korea
The President and the Secretary of State had some oddly contradictory statements this week.
The President and the Secretary of State had some oddly contradictory statements this week.
Not surprisingly, the North Koreans are pushing back against American efforts to force them into a corner on denuclearization.
For some reason, the President wants to help a Chinese company that has been accused of being a security risk by American intelligence services.
Does the administration know what it is doing?
The date and location of the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un has been set, but there’s as much chance of failure as their is hope for success.
There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.
The meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In was historic, but many questions and caveats remain.
The Kim regime has announced the end, for now, of its nuclear and ballistic missile testing programs. To understand why they made this concession, one needs to read between the lines.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Another significant development on the Korean Peninsula.
After several days of speculation, it was confirmed that the leaders of North Korea and China had met in Beijing. This was meant as much for external consumption as it was the relationship between the two nations.
By threatening to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, Donald Trump is making it far less likely that any upcoming talks with North Korea will succeed.
Talking to adversaries is a good idea. Of course, it matters how it is done.
The Kim regime released a statement saying they were open to talks and would not conduct provocative tests while they were ongoing.
China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.
A mass wave of mainland Chinese immigration to Australia has led to discrimination against Taiwanese expats there.
President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.
Why does the U.S. continue to pursue the seemingly impossible goal of denuclearization with regard to North Korea? In part, it’s because we’re still locked into thirty-year-old rhetoric.
The recent cooling of relations between North and South Korea has led to some talk of eventual reunification, but for many South Koreans that idea is a non-starter.
Just over one year after President Trump’s foolish and ill-informed decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Canada has stepped in to rescue the deal.
President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.
Some progress on easing tensions between North and South Korea.
Vladimir Putin will easily win re-election, but some are beginning to wonder who or what comes after him.
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is floating the idea that the U.S. might not take part in the Olympics due to safety concerns. This would be a foolish decision.
Russia has been barred from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics after an investigation uncovered extensive evidence of cheating.
North Korea tests another missile, and sends another message to the United States and its allies in Asia and the Pacific.
President Trump returns home from an Asian trip that wasn’t exactly impressive.
A preemptive attack on North Korea would be illegal, immoral and, most importantly, insane.
While the President of the United States continues to create chaos, Xi Jinping consolidates his power in China.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to call a snap election pays off big time.
Donald Trump is undermining his own Secretary of State’s efforts on North Korea, and he doesn’t seem to care.
The Trump Administration’s effort to impose sanctions against North Korea suffered a significant defeat in the United Nations Security Council.
Absent significant changes, expecting normal diplomatic relationships with the DPRK is a pipe dream.
More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.
The people who would most immediately be impacted by a war on the Korean peninsula don’t seem quite so concerned. Perhaps we should take a cue from them.
South Korea has elected a new President who breaks with his impeached predecessor in favoring dialogue with the North.
America’s longest war is still going on, and President Trump’s advisers want him to continue his predecessor’s policies of continuing to re-expand American forces in a war that has seemingly no end.
The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.
North Korea is threatening another nuclear test, the United States is threatening retaliation, and China is warning of a ‘gathering storm’ on the Korean Peninsula.