Outside the Beltway

President Trump is touting his Photo Op Summit as the end of the North Korean nuclear threat. Reality is quite different.

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

Seemingly out of the blue, the June 12th summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been canceled by the United States.

The meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In was historic, but many questions and caveats remain.

After initially praising the completion of a trade deal with South Korea, President Trump is now suggesting he may withhold final approval contingent on progress on talks with North Korea. This makes no sense whatsoever.

Another significant development on the Korean Peninsula.

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.

Donald Trump’s irrational tweets are once again focused on the leader of North Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.

Russia has been barred from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics after an investigation uncovered extensive evidence of cheating.

President Trump returns home from an Asian trip that wasn’t exactly impressive.

On North Korea, there are two options, deterrence and war. And only one of those options makes sense.

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.

Another provocative move by North Korea.

South Korea has elected a new President who breaks with his impeached predecessor in favoring dialogue with the North.

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.

South Korea removes a corrupt leader by peaceful means.

President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima left just the impression it should have.

The United States and South Korea are hinting at increased military cooperation in the wake of last week’s North Korean nuclear test.

North Korea’s mercurial leader now claims to have thermonuclear weapons, but analysts are saying this is likely braggadocios nonsense.

The North Koreans are back to their old tricks.

China sends a message, and the U.S. responds. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

The latest Wikileaks revelations suggest that China may not be willing to protect North Korea for much longer.