North Korea
News, analysis, and opinions about the US relationship with North Korea and its dictator, Kim Jong Un.
They don’t want to cripple Pyongyang’s economy, but the US does.
Give deterrence a chance.
It’s part of Trump’s North Korea tantrum cycle.
This is North Korea’s most provocative move during Trump’s presidency.
Here’s how three countries — including the US — responded to North Korea’s latest provocation.
They’ve got few options, decreasing leverage, and will have to intervene if war breaks out.
This was highly provocative. Let’s see how Trump reacts.
Bannon has some surprising views about North Korea.
“Only the Republic of Korea can make the decision for military action on the Korean Peninsula.”
Seriously, he just did that.
But the threat still exists.
And they’re talking about more than just prisoners.
North Korea lashes out when it feels threatened. Too bad Trump keeps threatening it.
It’s still really unlikely to happen.
New polls show Americans are divided on how to handle the North Korea threat.
His political style makes him uniquely unsuited to an astoundingly complex challenge.
Pastor Robert Jeffress says the Bible gives the government “the authority to do whatever.”
The assumption that the country is run by a lunatic is not only incorrect — it’s dangerous.
I’m at least, like, 75 percent sure.
He threatened the North with “fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
There’s no reason to think the US is actually planning to attack North Korea any time soon.
The stamp design is the latest — and admittedly the most whimsical — development in the ongoing North Korean nuclear crisis.
They’re the harshest measures taken so far against the regime.
North Korea is reaching a crisis point. Yet nobody is doing the top Korea jobs at the Pentagon and State Department.
Yeah, it was scary.
North Korea has a new missile, and it can reach the US.
Why the regime’s ICBM test is bad but not panic-inducing.
“Eventually they’ll go too far, and the situation will unravel.”
Washington is scrutinizing travel agencies’ marketing and eyeing a travel ban.
This marks the first time a US citizen has died from injuries sustained during captivity in North Korea.
Pyongyang says his coma comes from food poisoning. No one believes them.
The new liberal president just halted the deployment of THAAD.
There were diplomatic-metaphor glow sticks.
The missile theoretically has the ability to hit US territory.
Moon Jae-in is less hawkish on North Korea than Donald Trump.
His plan to win over China on North Korea: concede, concede, concede.
Turns out North Korea really doesn’t like being told what to do. Who knew?
Mad about THAAD.
“Beats the fuck out of me,” said one expert when asked about the administration’s recent actions.