Kim Jong-un’s surprise recent visit to Beijing and Xi Jinping was an awkward get-together that didn’t address the elephant in the room – Kim’s possible face-to-face meeting soon with Donald Trump.
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The goal of the summit should not be the nuclear disarmament of North Korea.
A former US Department of Defense and State Department official explains why a hard-line approach on North Korea will likely fail, as it did with Iran.
It is not yet midnight, but as the crisis deepens, the diplomatic and military options get more and more complex. And the possibility of war with North Korea is now very real.
A scholar who has profiled leaders like Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin says there is a method to understanding the madness.
Thanks to South Korea, there is a chance for peace with North Korea. Whether the Trump administration can take it is another matter.
A year ago, productive north-south talks seemed inconceivable – but with the US tripping over its own feet, things are changing.
North Korea clearly understands that going straight into high-level negotiations isn’t always the way to make a breakthrough.
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.
Kim Jong-un’s favourite act won hearts and minds when they performed on day one of the Winter Olympics.
North and South Korea explained in five questions and answers.
The state-produced stories, which include tales about apartment lotteries, theme parks and the Clintons, might seem absurd. But they offer a window into the regime’s priorities and anxieties.
China is succeeding in a high-stakes poker game on the Korean Peninsula. Did Canada and the U.S. just play into Chinese hands?
The fear and distress caused by a false missile alarm last week in Hawaii is part of the 125- year legacy of American occupation.
Military options should, and must, be on the table if diplomacy fails to compel North Korea to de-nuclearize.
North Korea sending a delegation to this year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea may be a global shadow puppet show – or it might help thaw the frozen relations between the two countries.
Chrystia Freeland and Rex Tillerson should remember one point when they meet in Vancouver soon to discuss North Korea: Kim Jong-un runs a feudal gangland, not a nation state.
2017 has felt like a chaotic year in Australian politics, and one in which policy progress has been swamped by other distractions. We can only hope that 2018 is calmer and more productive.
A former diplomat and foreign policy expert explains just how easily the president could bypass objections to war, from Congress to dissenting generals.
There are methods to avoid madness.
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Reader in Asia Pacific Studies, Co-Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies, University of Central Lancashire
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Reader in International Relations, Aston University
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds
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Professor in Korean Studies, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
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Senior Lecturer in Political Communications, Nottingham Trent University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
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Lecturer in Chinese History, University of Leeds
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
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Professor in Asia Pacific Studies, Director of the Asia Pacific Studies Institutes, University of Central Lancashire
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Edith Cowan University
