1. Kim Jong-Un Is No Master Strategist

    Despite their reputation for irrationality, North Korean leaders have always been masterful strategists. The country’s founding leader and eternal president, [...]

  2. North Korea at “No.1 Combat Readiness Status.”

    With South Korea marking the third anniversary of North Korea’s sinking of the ROKS Cheonan today, Pyongyang’s state media announced [...]

  3. UN Sanctions Hit North Korea…Again

    The unanimous passage of UN Security Council Resolution 2094 builds on prior UN Security Council resolutions 1695, 1718, 1874, and [...]

  4. How Obama Got North Korea Wrong

    Just hours ago North Korea successfully tested what many consider to be intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology, underscoring the failure [...]

  5. Preparations for North Korea’s Rocket Launch Heat Up

    Japan recently ordered its military to intercept any North Korean rocket or its debris that falls towards Japanese territory even [...]

  6. Mr. President: N. Korea is not Burma

    President Obama’s visit to Burma only a year after the country began embarking on a dramatic but “tenuous” reform path [...]

  7. Place Your Bets: North Korea’s Next Provocation

    Recent forays by North Korean fishing vessels across the disputed Northern Limit Line and DPRK Vice Minister Park Kil-yon’s statement that a “spark” could [...]

  8. Conditions Ripe for North Korean Nuclear Test?

    North Korea has comported itself relatively well of late. Kim Jong-Un's moves to unseat some hardliners and his talk of [...]

  9. A Change in North Korea’s U.S. Policy?

    The DPRK has signaled several times over the course of the summer that it is reviewing its nuclear policy and [...]

  10. N. Korea’s “New Look” Nuclear Program

    North Korea’s “new look” leadership, including speculation about both leadership and potential economic reforms, have drawn the lion’s share of [...]