Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
While seeking greater sanctions pain, U.S. is vague on engagement strategy.
In his high profile address to the South Korean National Assembly Nov. 8, President Donald Trump missed a crucial opportunity to clarify and adjust his administration’s disjointed and, at times reckless, policy toward North Korea.
The nuclear danger posed by North Korea is not new. But as Trump readies for a trip to East Asia, the crisis enters a critical phase.
U.S. draws a hard line on denuclearization and raises the prospect of military action.
MTCR Plenary Discusses Challenges
For now, it is a war of words. That could change.
North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test, which some experts assessed to be a test of a hydrogen bomb, on September 3. At a magnitude of 6.1, according to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, the test was North Korea’s most powerful to date.
Advances in North Korea’s Missile Program and What Comes Next
Moon Reverses THAAD Decision