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The Significance of Russia’s Frustration with North Korea

By Stephen Blank

Pyongyang appears to have shunned Moscow's attempts at direct engagement.

Is North Korea’s Navy Finally Falling Apart?

Two accidents in rapid succession suggest all is not well, but the country still has some significant assets.

China’s Growing North Korean Presence

A look at the impact of rising Chinese investment in the impoverished country.

Preparing for a North Korean Collapse

How the international community might fulfill its responsibility to prepare for the unthinkable.

China and North Korea: New Thinking, Old Policies

With a tougher posture on recent provocations, have China’s policies on North Korea really changed?

North Korea: To Talk or To Provoke?

By Duyeon Kim

Trustpolitik may be a start, but all parties need to return to the table at some point.

North Korea Changes Its Tune (Again)

By Ulv Hanssen

A look at how Pyongyang backed away from its latest provocation, and what that might mean for the future.

The Struggle to Combat North Korea’s Tuberculosis Crisis

Politics complicates efforts to control the disease.

Strategic Sunshine: The Path To Stability on the Korean Peninsula

An effective policy towards Pyongyang would recognize why the regime perpetuates crises and then change the incentive structure it faces.

Why China Is Not the Solution to the Korean Crisis

Beijing calls the shots in North Korea? History shows that thinking is misguided.

Don’t Sweat the Closure of Kaesong

By Robert E. Kelly

Although a symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, the once noble Kaesong experiment has long been a failure.

Patience, Not Preemption, on the Korean Peninsula

“The history of North Korea suggests that its leadership acts with greatest vehemence when it is internally weak, as a way to justify its economic failures by blaming a foreign conspiracy…”