The legal battle over the extradition of Mun Chol-Myong to the United States continues, as Malaysian courts postpone judgment until the end of October. Mun is a 54-year-old citizen of the Democratic People’s Republic of…
Category: The Korea-US Specials
This article assesses the efficacy of the United Nations (UN) sanctions regime for North Korea. It reaches the following principal conclusions: When it comes to North Korea sanctions, US policymakers are failing to grasp a…
The impeachment of Donald Trump is more likely than a lot of people realize. While the Democrats are over the moon at finally getting something on the President to hang on him, the reality is…
President Trump blasted his former national security adviser John Bolton from the White House on Wednesday, saying he had been fired after making “some very big mistakes” and that he did not get along with others in the…
With apologies to T.S. Eliot, August was the cruelest month. US-DPRK working-level talks did not begin, as most observers expected, after US-ROK joint military exercises ended on August 20. For a variety of reasons, the…
Definition/Description The Korean peninsula is where Russia, China, Japan and the United States meet and contest. It is the most strategically valuable location in the world and inevitably has been of consuming interest to imperialism,…
Between Kim’s 2019 deadline and South Korean and American elections in 2020, it is getting harder to find the time to hash out an agreement. Time is running out to achieve a real breakthrough with…
President Trump says he received yet another “very beautiful” letter from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Thursday, adding that he thinks there will be another meeting between the two. Mr. Trump teased reporters…
When President Trump spent a few moments north of the demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea last month, he became the first U.S. president to visit North Korea. But that may wind up…
Donald Trump will ultimately have to remind his national security adviser and secretary of state who is president if there’s to be progress on North Korea. There is hope for some real progress in U.S.-North…
