Inside Kim Jong Il’s Eerie Authoritarian World
To understand just how hard it is for the Obama Administration or anyone else to predict what the death of Kim Jong Il will bring to North Korea, it helps to understand just what a backward,...
View ArticleReading the Tea Leaves in Newly Announced U.S. Talks with North Korea
Despite the change in regime, the lines of communication between the U.S. and North Korea have remained open, leading to the announcement on Monday that they they would hold talks on Feb. 23 in...
View ArticleNorth Korea Nuclear Suspension: Diplomatic Coup for Obama, but No Rapid...
U.S. officials cautiously welcomed the news on Wednesday that North Korea has agreed to a moratorium on long-range missile launches, nuclear tests and nuclear activities, including uranium enrichment,...
View ArticleObama, the Korean DMZ and Fuzzy Red Lines
On a chilly spring Sunday, with the sun peeking through the clouds, President Barack Obama visited Camp Bonifas — named for a U.S. soldier who was decapitated with an ax by North Korean troops — along...
View ArticleCould Dennis Rodman’s North Korea Trip Affect U.S. Policy?
The tale of Dennis Rodman’s bizarre visit to North Korea got a little stranger on Monday, when the former NBA star’s visit to Pyongyang became a topic at both the White House and the State Department....
View ArticleU.S. Worried by N. Korea Threats, Imposes New Sanctions
(WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration expressed heightened concern Monday over threats of war from nuclear-armed North Korea and issued new sanctions against the communist nation’s primary exchange...
View ArticleThe Kim Who Cried Wolf
Isn’t it interesting that North Korea’s ever more extravagant military threats aren’t drawing much media attention in the U.S.? No one really expects a war to break out. But what if one does? What if...
View ArticleTake Cover! It’s NoKo New Year
When North Korea‘s founder Kim Il Sung was alive, he’d celebrate his birthday by imprisoning hundreds of thousands of “ideological offenders” or unveiling a blueprint for a “communist paradise.” His...
View ArticleObama Urges North Korea to End Belligerence
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday urged North Korea to end its brazen nuclear threats against the U.S. and its allies, warning the unpredictable communist regime that his...
View ArticleU.S. to Press China Over Repatriation of N. Koreans
(WASHINGTON) — The United States will press China over its forcible repatriation of refugees to North Korea, a U.S. human rights envoy said Monday. He likened the North’s vast gulag to that operated by...
View ArticleThree Ways to Tell if Someone Is Plotting a Coup Against You
North Korea‘s cherub tyrant Kim Jong Un startled the outside world this week by having a top regime official, who also happens to be his uncle, dragged from a public meeting and later executed. A...
View ArticleDefining Nuclear ‘Significance’
Secretary of State John Kerry sounded pretty blunt at the State Department Tuesday afternoon: We will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state, nor as a nuclear-armed state, nor will the international...
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