Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher or get the app to listen later. Why does North Korea keep testing its nuclear capabilities, despite tightening sanctions? What can the United States and the international community do to confront Pyongyang? And how might the...
Tomorrow’s Security Council meeting on North Korea should be…interesting. Here’s why: On Monday, North Korea launched a series of missile tests in violation of several prior UN resolutions. The USA and Japan subsequently called for an emergency meeting at the...
Last week, the Security Council passed yet another sanctions resolution aimed at curbing North Korea’s nuclear program. These newest sanctions come on the heels of Pyongyang’s testing of a nuclear weapon in September. This newest tit-for-tat comes less than a...
Can a new round of international sanctions on North Korea do the trick? Three months after North Korea last tested a nuclear weapon, the Security Council is again poised to sanction the regime in a vote on Wednesday. Last March,...
The Security Council just enacted the toughest sanctions against North Korea in twenty years. How tough? For one, all shipments to and from North Korea are now subject to a mandatory cargo inspection regime. The resolution also bans the export...
North Korea has done it again. So far, there is little we know about this latest nuclear test. Chances are, Pyongyang was full of bluster when it claimed this to be a powerful hydrogen bomb. Most analysts believe this was...
Rain is coming to Korea. The drought that cracked the rice paddies in North Korea during the month of June is easing, along with rising precipitation levels and even typhoon warnings. In early July, the North Korean state media advised...