Korean Peace Talks

Japan made an explicit claim to ownership of a group of Russian-held islands off Hokkaido in an annual foreign policy report released Tuesday, after refraining from doing so last year amid hopes of breaking a deadlock in the territorial dispute.The issue has prevented the two countries from signing a World…

(CNN)President Donald Trump said Monday that he would prefer for government employees to wash Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's dishes if his wife or son was not there to do so.While the dish-washing assertion was not among those reportedly investigated by the State Department inspector general fired by Trump last…

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated, Kim Jong-un might say. The same could be said for nuclear diplomacy with North Korea. Why? Diplomatic give-and-take is the only way for the United States to constrain North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. It is also the only way for Kim…

Summary The rift between Europe and the United States over Iran is deepening. Two years of U.S. maximum pressure on Tehran have not yielded the results Washington had hoped for, while the Europeans have failed to put up enough resistance for their transatlantic partner to change course. Worse, the U.S.…

Editor’s note: John Dale Grover is a Korean Studies fellow at the Center for the National Interest. He visited Seoul for a week in early November 2019 to interview nine experts in South Korea for this project. This is the fifth piece in a five-article series, “How South Korea’s Politics…

May 11, 2020 / Posted by: Emily The world got a lot less funny today. Comedy legend Jerry Stiller has died of natural causes at the age of 92. Woof. A big ol’ “fuck you” to this May weekend for taking out icon after icon after icon after icon. Quick, somebody check…

It is a truism among diplomats that it never hurts to talk. The reality is quite different. Certainly, diplomacy, properly practiced, can advance peace and stability. Careless diplomacy, however, can set back peace or empower terrorists and tyrants.   America and the European Unions’ recent track-records are poor. Throughout the late…

South Korea sends face masks to US veterans to mark 70th anniversary of war’s start South Korean officials held a ceremony at Gimhae Air Base on Friday to celebrate plans to send 500,000 face masks to the United States to be provided to American veterans of the Korean War. The…

South Korea sends face masks to US veterans to mark 70th anniversary of war’s start South Korean officials held a ceremony at Gimhae Air Base on Friday to celebrate plans to send 500,000 face masks to the United States to be provided to American veterans of the Korean War. The…

South Korea sends face masks to US veterans to mark 70th anniversary of war’s start South Korean officials held a ceremony at Gimhae Air Base on Friday to celebrate plans to send 500,000 face masks to the United States to be provided to American veterans of the Korean War. The…