US North Korea Financial Noose Tightens
-+ WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a North Korean firm accused of involvement in the country's ...
-+ WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a North Korean firm accused of involvement in the country's ...
CFR | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
By Jayshree Bajoria | Council on Foreign Relations An interview with Roberta Cohen, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution The U....
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the government of North Korea have engaged in a war of words this week that teeters on the edge of farce. On M...
Washington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year....
Washington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
As it noisily goads the outside world with missiles and a nuclear test, North Korea is quietly tightening screws at home....
Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 08.03.2009 | World
In Obama's relations with North Korea, force is an option but a last resort. That is the hallmark of the Smart Power approach: use all the instruments of national power to achieve your goals, not just the military.
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea condemned a recent U.S. pledge to provide nuclear defense of South Korea, saying Thursday that the move boosts ...
AP | VIJAY JOSHI | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — The youngest son of North Korea's authoritarian leader has been given the title of "Brilliant Comrade," a sign the communis...
John Marshall | Posted 06.29.2009 | Comedy
"We're not made of missiles," said Kim Jong-Il. "There's only so much sabre-rattling we can do. Can't we get mentioned somewhere? Since when are nuclear weapons not on the same radar as Susan Boyle?"
Inner City Press | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Five days after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test, a draft resolution emerged behind closed doors at the UN Security Council. The thre...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Following its initial hullabaloo, the current standoff may be a foreign policy windfall for the Obama administration by uniting typically disparate regional players
Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
We now may be witnessing the emergence of nuclear proliferation as an export-based strategy for capital formation.
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Wednesday accused North Korea of "provocative and belligerent" behavior as Defense Secretary Robert Gates took on the d...
AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea boosted their alert level Thursday to the highest category since 2006, afte...
AFP | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
North Korea has fired off another missile, the latest in a series since its nuclear test two days ago, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Wednesday...
Disgrasian | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Dear North Korea, What's up, guy? Listen, we heard through the grapevine that you did more nuke testing today. DUDE, what have we said about missile ...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
As North Korea closes itself off to the outside world even more, China's unique role as an interlocutor will become even more necessary.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
The curtain is about to rise again on the long-running nuclear tragicomedy, "North Korea Outwits the United States." Despite Kim Jong Il's explicit th...
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned Wednesday it will fire an intercontinental ballistic missile _ or even carry out another nuclear test _ ...
Reuters | Posted 05.12.2009 | World
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Japan have reached an agreement on a draft statement about North Korea's long-range rocket...
News24 | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
A Russian general said on Thursday that the nation's military is capable of shooting down missiles like the one launched by North Korea over the weeke...
AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament appointed Kim Jong Il to a third term Thursday as leader of one of the world's most r...
AFP | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
SEOUL (AFP) -- A triumphant North Korea on Tuesday broadcast footage of its controversial rocket launch as state press reported Kim Jong-Il wept tears...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
While Obama's pursuit of nuclear disarmament would be noble, double standards, favoritism, and fear-mongering are cancerous elements that rob the U.S. of respect and leverage in the nuclear debate.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
Despite the initial hullabaloo that followed North Korea's Sunday test launch of a Taepodong-2 missile, the UN security council has so far failed to i...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 08.30.2009 | World