Kim Jong Un

What is Happening in North Korea?

There is little solid information but a lot of speculation on the status of Kim Jong Un and North Korea's recent past and immediate future. 

Is the Talk about Kim Jong Un Being Sick — or Worse — True? Pyongyang is Abuzz, Too.

by Anna Fifield

The Washington Post Beijing Bureau Chief and Kim Jong Un biographer Anna Fifield dissects the swirling rumors around the North Korean leader's health and whereabouts.

RIP to the Liberal Order

by Suzy Kim

American Mourning after the US-North Korea June Summit

Why the Korean War didn’t end — and why it could now

The fighting ended in 1953.  These are the reasons the warring parties didn't sign a treaty. 

Trump-Kim Deal Promises Answers for Families of Korean War M.I.A.s

The two sides agreed to the same thing after the 1953 armistice but have made only sporadic progress to accomplish it since then, and almost none in the last 13 years of mounting tensions over the North’s nuclear program.

Trump retreats from US moral leadership stance

Though Trump is far from the first U.S. president to work with an unsavory counterpart to achieve a strategic goal, his decision to broadcast that he tacitly accepts Kim’s history of atrocities was a sharp break from the past, says the AP.

Trump is everything Republicans said Obama was

by Tom Nichols

They called Obama an inexperienced, self-serving celebrity. Then their party chose Trump.

Will Trump Be Nixon in China?

by Andrew Preston

The president's meeting with Kim Jong Un could go more like Eisenhower with Khrushchev—which wouldn't be good.

When Hitler met Hoover

Dictators have scored presidential face time before.

Misunderestimating North Korea

by Andrew Meyer

North Korea doesn't want what Trump is offering.

As Trump Preps for Singapore, a Look at Past Summits That Succeeded—or Flopped

The bad ones include Yalta and Vienna.

Beijing sees 2018 as watershed year reminiscent of 1989

Both years are critical to understanding North Korea’s decision to develop nuclear weapons.

Trump Veers to a Korea Plan That Echoes Failures of the Past

Rather than sticking with the demand that North Korea disarm immediately, Mr. Trump's opened the door to a prolonged freeze – like Bill Clinton.

Why North Korea Is Angered by ‘Libya Model’ in Nuclear Talks

Kim doesn't want a deal like Qaddafi got given what happened to him.

If Trump’s foreign policy gambles fail, history suggests his reaction could be dangerous

by Charles Hermann

What matters more to U.S. national security is how presidents responded when their foreign policy shifts failed.

Trump needs to study up on North Korea's history of duplicity

by Cal Thomas

A good place to start is an essay written by Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute for the March 2003 issue of Commentary magazine.

University of Southern California's David Kang says Korea is the only place on earth where the Cold War continues

"Nothing has essentially changed since 1945. We are in the same place we were with two regimes nose-to-nose."

Max Boot: North Korea is conning Donald Trump yet again

by Max Boot

Kim hasn’t made the concessions Trump thinks he’s made.

Will Kim Jong Un Give Up North Korea's Nukes? History Says No

“Without the bomb, North Korea is Albania.”

Once Upon a Time Mao Was also Regarded as a Crazy Personality Cult Leader with Nukes

by Michael Sheng

There’s a lesson today in how we avoided war then.