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HNN Hot Topics: North Korea


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  • Will a Second Korean War Break Out? (August 2010)
  • News

  • North Korea vows to cancel cease-fire (3-5-13)
  • North Korea—Past Crises
  • USS Pueblo, captured by North Korea in 1968, now missing from Pyongyang (11-29-12)
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dead (Dec. 2011)
  • North Korea hands over remains of RAF pilot (5-5-11)
  • North Korea's Kim paves way for family succession (9-28-10)
  • North Korea possibly gearing up for war (May 2010)
  • In the Koreas, Five Possible Ways to War (May 2010)
  • Commentary

  • Sheila Miyoshi Jager: Domestic Politics, Pyongyang-Style (3-14-13)
  • Ron Radosh: When the New Left Shilled for North Korea (3-7-13)
  • Max Fisher: The Cannibals of North Korea (2-5-13)
  • Daniel M. Kliman: The Last Kim of Pyongyang? (Jan. 2012)
  • Bennett Ramberg: Why We Need Détente With North Korea (Jan. 2012)
  • B. R. Myers: Dynasty, North Korean-Style (Jan. 2012)
  • Adam Cathcart: Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Un Era (Dec. 2011)
  • Mitch Lerner: Wikileaks on North Korea Reveals Nothing New (12-5-10)
  • Gavan McCormack: Japan’s Unresolved Colonial Past and Today’s North Korea Problem (7-20-09)
  • Wada Haruki: Japan-North Korea Relations—A Dangerous Stalemate (6-22-09)
  • Matthew Cooper: When it Comes to North Korea, Obama Is as Hamstrung as His Predecessors
  • C.J. Maloney: North Korea? Really?
  • Adam Chapnick: China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem (2009)
  • Judith Apter Klinghoffer: The North Korean Holocaust. Yes. Holocaust. (2005)
  • Jonathan Dresner: Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea (2003)
  • Anders Lewis: The Historian Who Defends North Korea (2003)