Robert E. Kelly

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Maybe it’s Trump’s personality, maybe it’s domestic politics in Seoul, or perhaps North Korea simply loves the bomb. Last month in The Interpreter , I...

Washington has often been an informal umpire for the depressingly regular spats between Seoul and Tokyo – not this time. " Relations between South...

If press reports are accurate, U. S.

Reactions in the U. S.

Unsurprisingly, North Korea played a major role at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore over the weekend, as the focus of the event’s second main...

After North Korea burnished its credentials last year as a nuclear-armed state, there's been much discussion about what Pyongyang aims to do with its...

This was an extraordinary year for North Korea. It finally achieved a regime dream going back decades: establishing direct nuclear deterrence with the...

This has been a rollercoaster year for the Korean Peninsula. The South Koreans impeached their president .

As Donald Trump’s threats against North Korea have accelerated this year, the North has responded with its characteristically over-the-top rhetoric....