North Korea
The human side of Moon and Kim’s agreement
The past two years have been full of unexpected twists and stalled promises in the relationship between North Korea and South Korea, as well as their ties with the United States.
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Korean peninsula and the Moon-shot
The 12 June Singapore Summit has aged badly, as the declaration signed by Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un has proven as useless as most analysts imagined. Consequently, the…
The third Moon-Kim summit: uncertainties abound
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for three days of talks with North Korea’s Chairman Kim Jong-un, with denuclearisation …
Air traffic control for North Korea’s missiles
Verification is a cornerstone of disarmament. For the ongoing peace initiatives with North Korea, verification is even more critical.
Access to the country is notoriously…
The struggle to conclude peace in Korea
The border separating North and South Korea remains one of the most heavily armed in the world. Surrounded by thickets of barbed wire, Korea’s misleadingly named Demilitarised…
The discord in the Korean peace process
Last week, the South Korean Blue House announced preparations for another summit – what will be the third – between President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s…
What Kim Jong-un really wants hasn’t changed
The news that US and North Korean generals met for talks for the first time in nine years to discuss the possible repatriation of 200 American soldiers lost during the…
North Korea: repatriating fallen Americans
Private Lowell W. Bellar of Gary, Indiana, was only 19 years old when he was killed in action in Korea on 1 December 1950. However, his brother and surviving relatives would…
Seeing is believing: Pyongyang has kept a promise
Talks with North Korea have rarely been out of the news in recent months. While much of these dealings can be questioned, at least one outcome is now essentially beyond reasonable…
North Korea also an intelligence test for Trump
It is not only Donald Trump’s wavering, on-and-off attacks on the investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election that betrays his distrust of intelligence agencies…