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Decades of US pressures have failed to make progress on North Korea’s denuclearization. It’s time to try something different, argues a peace advocate.

How to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.

In this interview with Bulletin editor John Mecklin, former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker explains how three successive US presidential administrations failed to take advantage of an apparent willingness by North Korea to accept a fundamentally new relationship with the United States—along with significant controls on its nuclear program.

To conclude, as we consider the Agreed Framework's two-year mark,we are faced with strained U.S.-ROK relations, extremely hightensions between the North and South, and the Korean peace talksprocess squarely in the deep freeze.

How to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons and the meansto deliver them.

Policymakers should focus on coming up with a new plan to get North Korea back to the negotiating table, writes Frank Aum for Foreign Affairs.

In establishing a new agenda for strengthening U.S. relations withAsian countries, President George W. Bush faces a number ofchallenges, some of which were left unresolved by his predecessor.

In the past few decades, nuclear weapons have come to be synonymous with North Korea. The country's growing nuclear proliferation

The agreement rewards Pyongyang for its bad behavior and reflects America's abandonment of several previously intractable negotiating positions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump are now meeting in Vietnam. Going into his second summit with Kim, Trump has stated his primary objective is progress on North Korean denuclearization.  But what is denuclearization?  For instance, some say denuclearization includes ballistic missiles, U.S. presence on the Korean peninsula, or even human rights.