Trump North Korea policy

Neither Trump nor Putin has much incentive to address the North Korea issue, but leaving it off the table risks putting the nail in the coffin of the U.N.'s nonproliferation efforts.

There is reason to be skeptical.

Pyongyang has made clear its nuclear weapons are no longer negotiable but its strategy can be recalibrated depending on Washington’s approach.

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.

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

A statement from the former president is a stark reminder of his transactional approach to both Koreas.

Apparently, Joe Biden is unofficially favored by South Korea, but there are serious concerns about his approach to North Korea.

While denuclearization can still be a long-term objective, it is extremely unlikely to happen - and luckily, U.S. security is not dependent on it.

Other presidents have conducted foreign policy as usual while under the cloud of impeachment, but will it be the same with Trump?

“There would be no diplomatic outreach without Kim Jong Un crossing the nuclear threshold.”

Don't blame Pyongyang: the United States and South Korea are weakening their alliance on their own.

The harm to American interests as a direct result of the Trump-Kim meeting may prove to be quite significant indeed.

While the North Korea setback gets the headlines, Trump's trade war with China might be worse news for South Korea.

When it comes to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, pessimism is realism.