Commentary / World Mar 14, 2018
Could the Kim-Trump summit succeed?
by Ramesh Thakur
The Kim-Trump summit is an opportunity that will be difficult to seize and easy to squander.
Editorials Mar 12, 2018
New and creative thinking is needed to end the stalemate and change trajectories on the Korean Peninsula. But this is a very risky gamble.
Commentary / World Mar 12, 2018
Trump-Kim meeting: What role should China play?
by Frank Ching
Commentary / World Mar 12, 2018
What critics of North Korea summit get wrong
by Peter Van Buren
Diplomacy — the alternative to war — is the messy business of meeting adversaries, not ignoring them.
Commentary / World Nov 6, 2017
What truly frightens the men in charge in Chna is seeing another communist regime go down.
Commentary / World Nov 6, 2017
Reagan and the case for tactical nukes in South Korea
by Joseph Bosco
U.S. President Donald Trump should take a page from the book of Ronald Reagan, learning from when that president faced a similarly fraught situation at the height of the Cold War.
Commentary / World Oct 17, 2017
What North Korea learned from the Kosovo War
by Samuel Ramani
Pyongyang views NATO's willingness to use force in Kosovo just four years after Washington signed the Dayton Agreement with Milosevic in 1995 as proof that U.S. public statements on the use of force should not be taken at face value.
Commentary / World Sep 5, 2017
What Twitter taught me about (nuclear) war with North Korea
by Franz-stefan Gady
Can words alone mitigate the obvious gravity of nuclear holocaust?
Commentary / World Aug 21, 2017
Quieting down the language of war
by Stephen R. Nagy
Cool heads and clarity need to prevail to prevent an escalation in the North Korea crisis.
Commentary / World Aug 17, 2017
China and the North Korean nuclear challenge
by Ramesh Thakur
Japan and South Korea have managed to live for years with the reality of vulnerability to North Korea's nukes. There is no reason why the U.S. cannot learn to do the same.
Commentary / World Aug 15, 2017
Time to dial down tensions on the Korean Peninsula
by Hitoki Den
Despite the heightened tentions on the Korean Peninsula, the window for a political solution through dialogue has not been closed entirely.
Commentary / World Mar 27, 2017
U.S. has no good military options against Kim
by Peter Apps
How to describe American military options in North Korea? Bad and worse.