Today’s debate needs to be about more than just “taking out a bad guy.”

North Korean marketization may lend hope for sanctions to work, if the U.S. and China can coordinate.

Cold War history -- particularly surrounding Beijing's own nuclear development -- suggests otherwise.

Pyongyang's ICBMs do little to change the overall U.S.-DPRK strategic calculus.

Russia and China have different rationales, but both are alarmed by the United States' confrontational approach toward North Korea.

Relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are at a turning point.

Despite close ties, Beijing and Seoul's divergent interests, as well as regional politics, preclude a formal alliance.

Pyongyang’s economy has quietly grown in recent years. China’s economic rebalance promises to reverse this trend.

The short statement by China's MFA on the situation in North Korea is actually quite revealing.

Our writer offers some takeaways from the recent meeting between Choe Ryong-hae and Xi Jinping.