Asia-Pacific Pyongyang’s cycle of provocation and negotiation: A dispassionate analysis October 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: Pyongyang by Jen Morgan/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Nah Liang Tuang and Shawn Ho. In a recent commentary entitled ‘Handshakes and Missiles:…
Asia American distrust vis-à-vis North Korea’s desperation and dismal reputation: A poor negotiating cocktail May 13, 2019 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. Image Credit: North Korea - Flag by Roman Harak/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Following the failure of the second summit between…
North Korea The Hanoi Summit: Ruined by over-ambitious hard bargaining? March 21, 2019 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. From 27–28 February 2019, US President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Chairman Kim Jong-un in Vietnam's capital Hanoi…
Asia-Pacific The illusion of personal diplomacy: Can Trump outsmart Kim in Hanoi after disappointment in Singapore? February 27, 2019 0 Written by Peter J. Li. The U.S.-North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) relations are arguably the most intractable of America’s foreign…
North Korea North Korean denuclearisation: Verification in a quid pro quo framework February 19, 2019 0 Written by Nah Liang Tuang. Apparent significant progress in North Korean denuclearisation should be treated with cautious optimism. If Pyongyang's sincerity can be verified, there…
China President Trump, China has probably done all it can on North Korea – the ball’s in your court now December 3, 2018 0 Written by Gregory J. Moore. Despite the hoopla and high expectations surrounding the meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore earlier this year,…
North Korea ‘Much ado about nothing’: the media view of North Korea November 28, 2018 0 Written by Maria Rosaria Coduti. The relationship between the media and politics and its influence on public opinion is a complex one. Scholars debate whether…
China The China factor in US-DPRK negotiations November 27, 2018 0 Written by Rorry Daniels. Although the world generally applauds the upward trajectory of the rapprochement between North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: DPRK),…
North Korea Denuclearising North Korea: an intractable process November 26, 2018 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. Recently, the Kim regime in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has threatened to resume the development of the…
North Korea Striking North Korea would be a War of Choice August 30, 2017 0 Written by Robert E Kelly. In my time with The National Interest, no column I have written received so much criticism as my claim that North Korean nuclear weapons…