Revitalizing America’s North Korea Policy
Kurt Campbell has been nominated as the next Deputy Secretary of State. Here are five recommendations for his possible successor as Asia Czar.
Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
National Strategy for Countering North Korea
Excerpt Since the emergence of the nuclear threat from North Korea in the early 1990s, the primary objective of U.S. policy has been to convince Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program. While...
Op-eds
World Cup Shows Need to Crack Down on Kim’s Labor Exploitation
Shipping workers abroad helps the North Korean leader evade sanctions and finance his nuclear weapons.
Op-eds
Recommendations For Yoon-Biden Summit – Must Build On The Strong Alliance Foundation
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol began his five-year term on May 10 with a midnight security briefing from the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff. This meeting, which precedes a May 21 summit between Yoon...
Op-eds
It’s time for a new U.S.-Korea alliance for a free, unified peninsula
A small group of civil society stakeholders from the Republic of Korea (South Korea), North Korea, the United States, Japan and China recently convened in the mountains of Virginia to address the security...
Op-eds
Hold Beijing Accountable for Aiding Kim Jong Un’s Crimes
China plays a crucial role in sustaining North Korea’s horrific human rights record.
Op-eds
U.S. Treasury Turns Up the Pressure on Foreign Facilitators of North Korea’s Illicit Shipping Sector
Yesterday, the U.S. sanctioned three non-North Korean entities and one individual “for facilitating illicit shipments on be...
Policy Briefs
Retired Army Colonel David Maxwell Named Senior Fellow for North Korea Policy at FDD
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Press Releases
North Korean Human Rights Abuses
Both the State Department and a non-governmental human rights organization issued new reports yesterday on North Korea’s abhorrent human rights abuses. Concurrently, the Treasury Department...
Policy Briefs
Eyes Wide Shut to North Korea’s Terror Ties
News of North Korea is dominated right now by Pyongyang’s threats to carry out yet another nuclear test, which would be its fourth since 2006, and its third since President Obama took offic...
Op-eds
‘Escape From Camp 14′: A Shocking Exposé of North Korea’s ‘Hidden Gulag’
For six decades running, the North Korean gulag system has comprised one of the greatest crimes against humanity known to history. Yet it remains an obscurity. There is no such thing as a North K...
Op-eds
Lives For Sale
Probing President Obama's resolve, North Korea is now cranking its nuclear extortion routine into high gear. Following its April 5 illicit test of a ballistic missile, Kim Jong Il's reg...
Op-eds
Plutonium Patsies
Give North Korea credit: Even the killer regime of Kim Jong Il has not managed to stamp out every last glimmer of creativity. Some of the most innovative diplomats hail from Pyongyang, where they...