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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  The Biden administration’s North Korea policy is quietly radical in its acknowledgment that U.S. and allied security might be improved short of total denuclearization. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Check your email for details on your request. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has concluded its North Korea policy review and offered the public a glimpse of i...

Last Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced that the Biden administration has completed its interagency review on policy toward North Korea. She then read a statement that had been very carefully written but was largely meaningless to those who (for understandable reasons) haven’t been following the issue lately. So let’s decode what’s going on here—what’s old about Biden’s policy and what’s new. Here’s what Psaki said: Our goal remains the complete denucleariza...

As the Biden Administration re-engages Iran and reviews US policy toward North Korea, analysts are debating whether a “transactional” approach that focuses on reducing the nuclear threat is sufficient, or whether the U.S. should seek a transformative “grand bargain.” Both arguments have some merit, but the perceived distinction between them is a false one.

Bruce Klingner specializes in Korean and Japanese affairs as the senior research fellow for Northeast Asia. People visit the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on February 16, 2021. KIM WON JIN / AFP / Getty Images Key Takeaways Korea watchers are anxiously awaiting both the Biden administration finishing its North Korea policy review and Pyongyang conducting its next provocation. Walking away from den...

Mar 12, 2021 Los Angeles – North Korea’s recent public displays of new intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles have raised fresh concerns about the risks the regime in Pyongyang poses to the U.S. mainland. As President Joe Biden’s administration reviews U.S. policy toward the DPRK over the past four years and draws what lessons it can from Donald Trump’s nuclear summitry with North Korean leader Kim Jong un, it should consider a new arms-control approach. The...

North Korea may very well have intended to invade the South. Heres What You Need to Know: It is unlikely that the United States or South Korea would have been caught off-guard had an attack actually occurred. The stand-off between the United States and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) versus the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) can be traced, in part, back to the events of 1993 to 1994, when concern over North Korea’s nuclear program became front and center. After Nor...

Unlock critical, urgent aspects of North Koreas nuclear program Posted : 2021-02-24 16:41 Updated : 2021-02-24 19:55 This is the 12th in a "Letter to President Biden" series aimed at conveying policy recommendations through open letters from politicians, scholars and experts to the new U.S. president following his Jan. 20 inauguration. ― ED. By Stephen Costello Dear Mr. President, As you consider how you want to approach the issues surrounding Korea, it would be useful to review where U.S....

Unlock critical, urgent aspects of North Koreas nuclear program Posted : 2021-02-24 16:41 Updated : 2021-02-24 19:55 This is the 12th in a "Letter to President Biden" series aimed at conveying policy recommendations through open letters from politicians, scholars and experts to the new U.S. president following his Jan. 20 inauguration. ― ED. By Stephen Costello Dear Mr. President, As you consider how you want to approach the issues surrounding Korea, it would be useful to review where U.S....

The nation could soon conduct a nuclear or missile test.

Americans, stop the moral grandstanding on North Korea and get down to business Rather than pointing fingers, hawks and doves will need to address their own faults in order to make progress in 2021 SHARE Image: Obama White House flickr, The White House (Edited by NK News) The following article is an opinion piece by Rob York, director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. Views expressed in opinion articles and columns are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK Ne...