TOKYO – China’s refusal to attend this year’s summit with Japan and South Korea as scheduled comes at a trying moment for all three countrie…
DENVER – “Insanity,” Albert Einstein is reported to have said, is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.…
MADRID – Repeated threats from North Korea have turned the Korean Peninsula into one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots. But the situati…
BEIJING – After nearly a month of belligerent bluster from North Korea, China appears to have had enough, ending its silence about North Kor…
NEW YORK – Nobody would care much about North Korea – a small and isolated country of 24 million people, ruled by a grotesque dynasty that c…
BERLIN – The world’s task in addressing North Korea’s saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and eff…
SEOUL – South Korea’s incoming president, Park Geun-hye, takes over a country that has been a global role model for economic development. Bu…
DENVER – The most recent North Korean nuclear test is the most dangerous of the three to date. How the international community responds, in …
NOTTINGHAM – North Korea’s third nuclear test is a game changer not only for the United States and Japan, but also for the regime’s last all…
CANBERRA – North Korea’s latest nuclear test is bad news, both for Northeast Asia and for a world that needs to reduce its reliance on nucle…