As has been noted in several places, this is one hell of an interesting cable. The upshot is that South Korean officials seem to believe that North Korea will collapse in a fairly short interval after the death of Kim Jong Il, and that a...
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I have an article up at TAP on the prospect for negotiations with North Korea: An agreement with North Korea could happen in two ways. First, the United States and.
Global Times: Dialogue through artillery fire is rarely an effective means to settle a dispute. Robert Gates: I don't know the answer to any question about North Korea that begins.
I suspect that the crew of the Cheonan might dispute this headline from Reuters: North Korea shells South in fiercest attack in decades I suppose we run into definitional issues, and it's true that the latest shelling has killed civilians. However, torpedoing a patrol ship...
This is mildly alarming: North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries’ disputed.
This is news: North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration.
This may in part explain why the South Korean Navy was twitchy and mysterious about determining the cause of the Cheonan sinking: The Navy corvette Cheonan was warned on the morning it sank on March 26 that a salmon-class North Korean submarine and support ships...
North Korea adds insult to injury:
Wow. And of course Ivory Coast now has strong incentive to try to beat the DPRK just as badly. While I suspect that concerns about the DPRK team suffering retribution.
North Korea probably didn't need this: The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a North Korean border guard shot dead three Chinese nationals and wounded one last week in an incident in northeast China, prompting the Chinese government to file a formal complaint. The shootings...
Minxin Pei thinks that the Pyongyang regime is unlikely to survive a transition from Kim Jong Il to his son. While the prospects for a collapse of the North Korean.
See Geoff Forden on the typical damage profile of a modern torpedo, and how that relates to Cheonan.