North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits Samjiyon City, North Korea in this undated photo released on November 16, 2021 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA.

Order from Chaos

North Korea is addressing the pandemic in its ‘style.’ That means leaving a lot of people hungry.

Monday, November 22, 2021

North Korea in a new era of US-South Korea partnership

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Indian army soldiers are seen after a snowfall at the India-China trade route at Nathu-La, 55 km (34 miles) north of Gangtok, capital of India's northeastern state of Sikkim, January 17, 2009. The Nathu-La mountain pass, known as the old silk route, lies at an altitude of 14,200 ft. bordering between India and China and is covered with snow throughout the year. Picture taken January 17, 2009. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA)

Order from Chaos

China’s land border law: A preliminary assessment

Thursday, November 4, 2021

State, society, and markets in North Korea

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Reports

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a plenary meeting of the Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this undated photo released on February 12, 2021, by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA/via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT.

North Korea

North Korea’s economic crisis: Last chance for denuclearization?

Evans J.R. Revere

Friday, February 26, 2021

BEIJING, CHINA.- The president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in (left) and the president of China, Xi Jinping, shake hands before their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 23, 2019 .

Asia & the Pacific

China’s gambit on the Korean Peninsula

November 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo SEARCH "GLOBAL POY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2019 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

Asia & the Pacific

First things first: US-Korea policy in the Biden administration

Jonathan D. Pollack

November 2020

North Korean bank note, Jan 25, 2020 : North Korean bank notes displayed for sale at a pavilion, just south of the border between the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Jae-Won/AFLO) (SOUTH KOREA) No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

Report

What do we know about poverty in North Korea?

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Olha Danylo, Steffen Fritz, Martin Hofer, Homi Kharas, and Juan Carlos Laso Bayas

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Flags of China and North Korea are seen outside the closed Ryugyong Korean Restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, in this April 12, 2016 file photo. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell/Files TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000381375

Report

Lips and teeth: Repairing China-North Korea relations

Evans J.R. Revere

November 2019

Blog Posts

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Tianjin, China in this handout picture released July 26, 2021. U.S. Department of State/Handout via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

Working toward responsible competition with China

Patricia M. Kim

Friday, October 8, 2021

(L to R) Taehyung/V, Suga, Jin, RM, Jungkook, Jimin and J-Hope of South Korean boy band BTS speak at the SDG Moment event as part of the UN General Assembly 76th session General Debate in UN General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York, U.S., September 20, 2021. John Angelillo/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

From the Kabul airlift to BTS at the UN: South Korea’s middle power role

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (not pictured) at the White House, in Washington, U.S. May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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A grand strategy of resolute restraint

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, May 24, 2021

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Events

A conversation with HASC Chairman Adam Smith

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Asia Transnational Threats Forum: Cybersecurity and cyber resilience

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Past Policy 2020 Event

Iran and North Korea: Proliferation and regional challenges for the next administration

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Experts

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Multimedia

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The risk of accidental war

Jeffrey Feltman and Adam Cooper

The Mediator's Studio

Thursday, March 4, 2021

A soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge which leads to the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji - RC2RAH9I02ID

Podcast Episode

Why has North Korea escalated tensions in the run-up to the Korean War anniversary?

Jung H. Pak and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, June 25, 2020

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides artillery fire competition in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 20, 2020. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. - RC2XNF9LIL0G

North Korea

All things North Korea

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An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile streaks through the sky of Vandenberg in California. An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile streaks through the sky of Vandenberg in California August 25, 2005. The missile's single unarmed re-entry vehicle is expected to travel approximately 6759 km (4200 miles) in about 30 minutes, hitting a pre-determined target at the Ronald Reagan Test Site near the Kwajalein Atoll in the western chain of the Marshall Islands. The Minuteman is a strategic weapon system using a ballistic missile of intercontinental range.

Strengthen US security through nuclear arms reductions

Ami Bera and Steven Pifer

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

A North Korean flag flutters at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

Debating North Korea: US and Chinese perspectives

Susan A. Thornton, Li Nan, and Juliet Lee

38 North Friday, August 27, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden looks through binoculars to see North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette during a tour of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the military border separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, December 7, 2013. REUTERS/Lee Jin-man/Pool/File Photo

The rollout of the Biden administration’s North Korea policy review leaves unanswered questions

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ceremony to inaugurate the start of construction on the first phase of a project to eventually build 50,000 new apartments, in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released March 24, 2021 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA./File Photo

The key choices now facing the Biden administration on North Korea

38 North Tuesday, March 30, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A North Korea flag flutters next to concertina wire at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

Biden administration needs to get real on North Korea

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, March 29, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A North Korea flag flutters next to concertina wire at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

North Korea’s new nuclear gambit and the fate of denuclearization

Evans J.R. Revere

Friday, March 26, 2021