Kim Il-sung

August 2, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Anniversary of a forever war

Seventy years ago, the Korean War didn’t quite end

November 23, 2022 | Hyun-seung Lee, David Maxwell

Legitimizing North Korean Hereditary Succession Harms The Korean People

The international media has been drawn to the story of the possibility of a fourth-generation hereditary succession of the Kim family regime. This made headlines in global media outlets over the weekend...

July 21, 2022 | David Maxwell |

The Forgotten South Korean Prisoners Of War Who Sacrificed And Suffered For Seven Decades For Korean Freedom

The sixty-ninth anniversary of the Korean War Armistice is July 27, 2022.  The war is known as the “Forgotten War.” One of the most forgotten aspects of the war are the South Korean prisoners of...

March 30, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Cold War II and the new “new world order”

Unless we mobilize, expect no good outcome

January 31, 2022 | David Maxwell |

How To Get North Korea To Negotiate Over Its Nuclear Weapons And Missiles

On 30 January Kim Jong-un conducted another test launch of what is suspected to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile. This is the seventh event of 2022. With his recent statements implying he...

September 9, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Washington is ready to fall into Kim Jong Un’s trap, again

How many times will the United States pay North Korea to shut down the same nuclear reactor? The answer so far is three, although the Biden White House seems increasingly ready to make it four. North Korea...

March 29, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Revives the Truman Doctrine

His call to wage a global war for freedom echoes the dawn of the Cold War.

March 8, 2021 | David Maxwell |

How to Conduct the Biden Administration’s Korea Policy Review

The way ahead is deterrence, defense, denuclearization, human rights upfront, and solving the “Korea question” (e.g., unification) with the understanding that denuclearization of the north will only happen when we resolve that “Korea question.”

February 19, 2021 | Mathew Ha |

DOJ Charges Reveal North Korean Cybercrime and Money Laundering Schemes

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday indicted three North Korean cyber operatives and a Canadian-American money launderer for numerous cyberattacks against banks, virtual currency exchanges,...

April 21, 2020 | David Maxwell |

Kim Jong Un’s Health and What Comes Next

Following a South Korean report that Kim Jong Un is suffering complications from a cardiovascular procedure, U.S. media reported that the North Korean leader may be in grave danger. If true, the Korean...

February 19, 2020 | David Maxwell |

The Nature of The Kim Family Regime: The Guerrilla Dynasty and Gulag State

Excerpt While all desire an end to hostilities on the Korean peninsula, denuclearization of North Korea, a reduction of the conventional military threat, and an end to the human rights abuses against the...

August 31, 2015 | |

Nuclear Fiascoes: From Diplomatic Failure With North Korea To Debacle With Iran

With Congress due to vote by Sept. 17 on the Iran nuclear deal, there’s a warning worth revisiting. It goes like this: The president is pushing a historic nuclear agreement, saying it will...

December 12, 2014 | |

North Korea and Iran: Partners in Cyber Warfare?

North Korea has denied any involvement in the massive hacking attack last month on Sony Pictures Entertainment, and absent evidence c...

October 15, 2014 | |

A Shocking Exposé of the Power Behind North Korea’s Kim Dictatorship

The great dystopian science fiction novels of the 20th Century were written from the perspective of elite totalitarian functionaries who become hunt...

July 14, 2014 | |

North Korean Ship Tests the Waters Near America’s Shores

It’s not often that North Korean-flagged freighters turn up near America’s shores, but when they do, they deserve attention. North Korea has a prolific record of arms smuggling, narco...

November 19, 2013 | |

Iran Follows in North Korea’s Nuclear Shoes

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged from the latest round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva earlier this month to say t...

October 7, 2013 | |

Iran’s Sequel to North Korea’s Nuclear Playbook

As world powers prepare for nuclear talks with Iran next week in Geneva, U.S. negotiators and their cohorts would do well to review the history of nuclear deals with another rogue state: the Demo...

April 11, 2013 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Lessons in Supreme Leadership

Kim Jong Un is teaching Khamenei that the West can be beaten — repeatedly.

April 10, 2013 | Claudia Rosett Forbes |

The Pyongyang-Tehran Proliferation Playbook

Clearly the dangers posed by North Korea reside not only in its arsenal, but in the precedents Pyongyang keeps setting for just how much a rogue regime can get away with in this era of receding A...

January 8, 2013 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Google Bamboozled by North Korea?

As if there isn’t enough trouble in the world, the executive chairman of Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, has taken it into his head to visit North Korea. Schmidt is touring the world’s lea...