SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean officials headed to North Korea on Wednesday for their first Red Cross talks in nearly two years amid a push b...
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.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
North Korea poses a special test for progressives because unlike the invasion of Iraq, this time the United State is meeting the criteria previously posed by progressives.
Tad Daley | Posted 07.27.2009 | World
If our thousands of nuclear weapons actually do serve to deter, then why should we be concerned about a nuclear North Korea or Iran? If they do not serve to deter, then why retain them at all?
John Feffer | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
I'm not sure who's giving the president his advice on North Korea, but it's all wrong. His show of "resolve" has only made matters worse.
AP | Posted 07.22.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the United States is "prepared for any contingencies" involving North Korea _ including the regime's re...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it is prepared to confront ships believed to be carrying contraband materials to North Korea b...
AP | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is praising the international body's newly-endorsed sanctions against North Korea in resp...
AP | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
BRUSSELS, Belgium — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it does not appear that North Korea has made military preparations to follow throug...
BBC NEWS | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
US President Barack Obama has said he is "deeply concerned" by North Korea's reported sentencing of two US journalists to 12 years' hard labour....
Nathan Gardels | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Five days before the North Korean nuclear test, Bolton wrote a prescient article in the Wall Street Journal saying that such a test was imminent. I asked Bolton about North Korea's motives.
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
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.
AP | MERRILL HARTSON | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama assailed North Korea Monday for new missile tests, saying the world must "stand up to" Pyongyang and demand ...
AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Tuesday it was restarting its rogue nuclear program, booting U.N. inspectors and pulling out of disarmamen...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, asked by reporters if the administration thought North Korea's rocket launch was timed to President Obama's ...
Richard C. Bush III | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
I have done it again. I have provoked the international community to take North Korea. The American imperialists are worried about our preparations for a satellite launch, despite its other crises.
New York Times | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
North Korea said Tuesday that if the United States pushed for United Nations sanctions against it after its planned rocket launching, that would spell...
AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 04.11.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea took its first swipe at President Barack Obama on Wednesday, accusing his administration of meddling, though th...
Koreatimes.co.kr | By Jung Sung-ki | Posted 03.29.2009 | World
The United States has successfully intercepted missiles flying from North Korea three times in virtual scenarios testing its ballistic missile defense...
The Independent | Jonathan Thatcher in Seoul | Posted 03.03.2009 | World
North Korea said yesterday it was scrapping all accords with South Korea, a move the South's prime minister said could be timed to coincide with Barac...
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea and Iran, two nations with nuclear aspirations the U.S. wants to thwart, both signaled Wednesday that they were...
koreatimes.co.kr | Posted 02.12.2009 | World
The United States turned down an offer by North Korea to dispatch its nuclear envoy to Washington following the inauguration of President-elect Barack...
ft.com | Posted 01.21.2009 | Home
Barack Obama might have little option but to follow George W. Bush's approach on a range of foreign policy issues, including Iran, said Condoleezza ...
New York Times | PETER BAKER | Posted 01.16.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON -- The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama if an international crisis e...
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 09.25.2009 | World