Tag: denuclearization
The Xi–Kim summit’s hidden fault lines
When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited North Korea on June 8 and 9, 2026, for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,...
Before debating how Korea unifies, Seoul needs to decide what it...
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung recently stated that South Korea would not pursue absorption unification with North Korea. The position is being interpreted as...
To denuclearize North Korea, Xi must make Kim an offer he...
Following his recent meetings with President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to Pyongyang on 8-9 June, his first...
One year of Lee Jae-myung’s North Korea policy: real gains, serious...
June 4, 2026, marks the first anniversary of President Lee Jae-myung's inauguration. Given that his government took office in the wake of a sudden...
South Korea is sleepwalking through the North Korean nuclear crisis
With a U.S.-China summit scheduled for mid-May 2026, calls are growing once again to shift the framework for addressing North Korea's nuclear program away...
North Korea orders diplomats to lock in nuclear status, pursue multipolar...
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) issued a classified directive to senior foreign ministry officials in early April 2026 ordering them to...
South Korea’s rushed embrace of Kim Jong Un’s ‘two-state theory’ is...
North Korea's Kim Jong Un first introduced the concept of two hostile states in late 2023, framing South Korea as the country's foremost enemy....
Satellite imagery shows Yongbyon nuclear complex in active modernization phase
Recent satellite imagery and analysis by international monitoring organizations indicate that North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, the country's primary nuclear complex located...
Pyongyang tells diplomats to drop denuclearization, push arms control instead
North Korea's government issued a strategic directive in late March ordering its foreign affairs and military officials to abandon denuclearization as a negotiating framework...
The Ninth Party Congress aftermath: What Kim Jong Un’s era really...
North Korea's five-yearly marquee political event, the Ninth WPK Party Congress (Feb. 19-25), has now concluded. Since December of last year, this writer has...
