North Korea News News North Korea » Politics: Opinion: North Korea’s threat to moral norms
Author Aaron Rhodes argues that President Trump's diplomatic overtures toward North Korea and the proposed Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act risk legitimizing the regime's systemic human rights ...
News North Korea » Politics: North Korean Elites and Regime Weakness
Assess the role of North Korean elite grievances in revealing the regime’s greatest weakness and its implications for U.S., European, and Asian policymakers and geopolitical strategists.
News North Korea » Politics: Trump orders major cut to US-South Korea drills as North Korea ramps up missile tests
President Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back Ulchi Freedom Shield drills, citing costs and a hostile signal to Kim Jong Un amid North Korea tensions.
News North Korea » Politics: North Korea and Russia open their first road bridge, a symbol of expanding ties
The structure spans the Tumen river and was cast as an important milestone in their deepening strategic partnership.
News North Korea » Politics: North Korea commissions 2nd naval destroyer as US, South Korea and Japan begin a military drill
Kim Jong Un is dialing up pressure on the U.S. after rebuffing Donald Trump’s decision to scale back a major military exercise in the region.
News North Korea » Politics: ‘Tit for tat’: Why is Trump cozying up to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un again?
Analysts say Trump’s attempted rapprochement with Kim Jong Un is driven by political signals to Pyongyang and Seoul.
News North Korea » Politics: Is North Korean isolation over?
July 23 (UPI) --Wang Huning, the fourth-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee, recently visited Pyongyang to meet with Kim Jong Un. The two sides reaffirmed ...
News North Korea » Politics: Kim Jong Un meets China's top political adviser Wang Huning
SEOUL, July 17 (UPI) --North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with a Chinese party and government delegation led by top political adviser Wang Huning in Pyongyang and pledged to strengthen ties between ...
News North Korea » Politics: Trump plans to meet with North Korea's Kim this year
Trump's remarks came after he ordered Pentagon officials to cut short joint military exercises with South Korea.
News North Korea » Politics: Trump reveals exact number of North Korea's nuclear weapons
Trump cited 57 nuclear weapons in North Korea's arsenal, marking the first time a U.S. official has publicly put an exact number on Pyongyang's stockpile.
News North Korea » Politics: The Death of Kim Jong Il and North Korea’s Broken Dynasty
North Korea today constitutes a unique political edifice: a Marxist-Leninist state that adheres to hereditary succession. For more than six decades, dynastic politics have determined Pyongyang’s ...