U.S. North Korea policy

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

The reported restart of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor is likely a bid for attention at a time when the United States is more focused on China’s rise.  

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. 

Besides seeing a stronger stance emerge on China, the summit had implications for the North Korea issue as well as Japan-South Korea relations.

Moon and Biden are looking for very different results from the upcoming summit.

According to local news reports, after being ignored for months Washington finally got through to Pyongyang to explain U.S. policy.

After laying the groundwork during Asia travel by the secretaries of state and defense, the administration now must respond to the first provocation from North Korea.

The challenges on the Korean Peninsula have never just been abstract foreign policy issues happening “over there” – they have touched the lives of thousands of American families.

North Korea fired multiple short-range cruise missiles after the United States and South Korea finished their springtime joint military exercise.  

Ever-tightening U.S. sanctions have not achieved policy goals, while severely limiting humanitarian activities inside North Korea.