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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 its rough dimensions. Like its predecessors, the full content of the administration’s policy review...

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 denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. With a clear understanding that the efforts of the past four administr...

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 denuclearization as a goal because "North Korea will never do it" is to acknowledge that the regime's p...

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 failure of Trump’s efforts should surprise no one. After all, prior U.S. administrations’ initi...