Trump North Korea policy

Drawing lessons from the back-channel diplomacy of his first term, Trump may well reengage North Korea through secret negotiations.

It is high time to improve North Korea-U.S. relations, and the U.S. president-elect is uniquely positioned to do so.

Devising a concrete plan to strengthen its self-defense capabilities and recalibrating its policy on North Korea would be top priorities for Seoul over the next two months.

A second Trump administration is likely to find engaging North Korea more complex this time, thanks to drastically reduced leverage.

Depending on their foreign policy preferences, South Korea’s political groups have varied perceptions of what they would like to see from the next U.S. administration. 

The North Korea challenge represents some of the world’s biggest military, technological, and economic struggles today. Yet it receives very little attention from the candidates.

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

How should South Korea handle balloon clashes against the backdrop of Trump’s possible re-election? 

Three points of friction could emerge over policy toward North Korea, host-nation support, and China policy.

The North Korean diplomat-turned-South Korean lawmaker discusses Pyongyang’s stepped-up artillery shelling and its foreign policy strategy.