The Trump administration shelved its plans for a ‘bloody nose’ attack while the Olympics in South Korea were under way. With the games over, it’s time to consider the consequences of a strike.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on North Korea
Displaying 121 - 140 of 320 articles
North Korea clearly understands that going straight into high-level negotiations isn’t always the way to make a breakthrough.
When he meets the US president this week, the prime minister will talk about the North Korean nuclear threat, the rise of China, and the rebranded Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Donald Trump doesn’t have one foreign policy – he has several, and they all clash.
North Korea’s cyber army is closely controlled by the ruling regime – a key difference from other countries’ cyberattack and espionage groups.
Sometimes diplomacy won the day, sometimes it didn’t.
The International Olympic Committee has banished dopers from the Winter Games. Shame it hasn’t treated North Korea, a noted human rights violator, with the same resolve.
Parasites are not only a personal health problem – they are political too.
To avoid another refugee ‘crisis’ that would take the world by surprise, East Asia would do well to be prepared for an influx of people from North Korea.
Teams from both countries marched into opening ceremony under the unified Korea flag.
Kim Jong-un’s favourite act won hearts and minds when they performed on day one of the Winter Olympics.
Korea’s fielding of a unified Olympic team is an intriguing narrative of sport, international diplomacy and gender equality.
The mistrust between the two Koreas is so deep that there are more sceptics than enthusiasts over North Korea’s involvement in the Winter Olympics.
In these Olympics more than most, there is less global attention on the medal count than on who will win the politics.
The joint South Korean-North Korean women’s Olympic hockey team has angered fans of the game and raised concerns about athlete morale. But the media spotlight is actually good for the game.
North and South Korea explained in five questions and answers.
History shows Olympic Games have only very limited ability to promote peace between warring nations.
Whichever way you cut it, a US first strike against North Korea would almost certainly trigger major war on the Korean peninsula, with a high risk of escalation to full-scale nuclear conflict.
The contestation of Asia will continue this year, with many countries facing internal and external battles.
In 1985 The Junkyard Band shifted the paradigm by challenging Reaganomics. Many of those same key issues still rage on today, across the world.
Job Board
-
Senior Lecturer - Earth System Science
-
Strategy Implementation Manager
-
Sydney Horizon Educators (Identified)
-
Deputy Social Media Producer
-
Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University
-
Reader in International Relations, Aston University
-
Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
-
Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
-
Reader in Asia Pacific Studies, Co-Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies, University of Central Lancashire
-
Migration & Social Inclusion Researcher, University of Sheffield
-
Visiting Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds
-
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Faculty (Japan Campus), Temple University
-
Professor in Korean Studies, Tufts University
-
Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
-
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
-
Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
