Biden North Korea policy

If Harris wins the election in November, she is likely to continue the Biden administration’s approach to Pyongyang. That would be a mistake.

Whatever Pyongyang says officially, the U.S. presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will have big implications for North Korea.

In the trilateral summit on Sunday, Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo reaffirmed their joint commitment in the face of Pyongyang’s missile threats, but no new measure to renew the stalled dialogue were announced. 

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After a meeting with his U.S. counterpart, South Korea's foreign minister emphasized strengthening the joint extended deterrence against North Korea’s missile threats. 

Continued missile testing by North Korea will not compel Seoul, Tokyo, or Washington to seek the negotiations Pyongyang could use to address its needs.

In an interview with news agencies of OANA, South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed his hope for the U.S. and North Korea to renew talks.

North Korea is not testing missiles in a bid to entice the U.S. into talks. Pyongyang is honing its missile arsenal as a goal in and of itself.

Since the collapse of the U.S.-North Korea summit at Hanoi in February 2019, North Korea and the United States have been locked in a diplomatic impasse. 

South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for an end-of-war declaration in his U.N. address, but the other countries involved have different goals. 

How does a new rule barring the export and resale of cyber “intrusion software” to China and Russia without the proper license mitigate the North Korean cyber threat?

Even though Washington has reached out to Pyongyang with detailed messages through multiple channels, North Korea has not responded.  

Love it or hate it, most Americans knew what the Trump administration was doing on North Korea – and what they thought of it.

Moon wants to lead cooperation among neighboring countries to tackle Korean Peninsula issues, but there is little interest from the other parties.

The optimal solution to North Korea’s nuclear and missile challenges will require a middle ground between stronger deterrence and maximal engagement.

With diplomacy stalled, Sung Kim and Noh Kyu-duk discuss how to renew dialogues with their counterparts in Pyongyang. 

Mutual distrust has doomed past efforts to settle a deal between the U.S. and North Korea. 

Insights from Kongdan Oh.

Pyongyang and Washington have shown different interpretations of Kim Jong Un’s latest remarks about possible talks with the Biden administration.

Both the U.S. and South Korea made compromises that could have long-term ramifications for the region's geopolitical balance.

The ball is now in Pyongyang's court. Will it take up the offer of dialogue?

Efforts at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula will face complex political calculations at play in the U.S. and South Korea.

As the White House unveiled its new policy toward the North, Pyongyang denounced the policy for reflecting the “outdated” perspective of the Cold War.

After Pyongyang's resumed missile testing, Seoul and Washington are having difficulties finding a way to resume dialogue.