Foreign relations of North Korea Articles

The Perilous Case of Kim Jong Il

Michael J. Green | Aug 25, 2009
Kim Jong Il is dying. Sons, generals and statesmen vie for his throne. With Pyongyang's impressive arsenal of chemical-, biological- and nuclear-weapons programs, the Fall of the House of Kim could end in a peninsular war or worse.

Hope Over Experience

Mitchell B. Reiss | May 01, 2007
Mitchell Reiss’ analysis of the six-party talks’ potential to bolster American and northeast Asian security are pertinent amidst reports of some progress with

Ahead of the Curve: The TNI Archives

| Feb 01, 2007
Six-party talks over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program are set to resume this Thursday on the heels of failed talks in December and Kim Jong-il’s provocative nuclear test in October. TNI takes a look back at other crucial junctures in A

A New Forum for Peace

Ian Bremmer
Choi Sung-hong
Yoriko Kawaguchi
| Dec 01, 2005
A proposal for transforming the six-party talks on North Korea into a security system for northeast Asia.

Rethinking Non-Proliferation

Ted Galen Carpenter
Charles V. Peña
| Jun 01, 2005
Some states are more equal than others. America's non-proliferation strategy should reflect this reality.

North Korea's Weapons Quest

Nicholas Eberstadt | Jun 01, 2005
With nuclear weapons, North Korea aims to finish what it started: the Korean War.

Living with the Unthinkable

Ted Galen Carpenter | Dec 01, 2003
A nuclear North Korea is inevitable. Coexist and contain.

Our Other Korea Problem

Nicholas Eberstadt | Sep 01, 2002
The real threat to America's position in Korea doesn't emanate only from Pyongyang: How the "sunshine policy" could foreshadow the sunset of the U.S.-South Korean alliance.

Korea: A Time to be Bold?

Michael J. Mazarr | Mar 01, 1998
A new strategy toward North Korea might just enable us to recover custody of our policy from fate.

Tin Cup Diplomacy

Hans Binnendijk | Sep 01, 1997
We are again in the early stages of a new international system, but without a unifying challenge to raise foreign affairs resources much above 1 percent of the federal budget.

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