Sep 22, 2017
Donald Trump has issued a new executive order that expands US sanctions on North Korea’s shipping, banking, ports and manufacturing. Trump also claimed Ch
Martin Edwards, Associate Professor, Seton Hall University
Sep 21, 2017
Why the international community should not celebrate the unanimous vote to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea: Pyongyang is not without options in responding to the sanctions. It is essential that the international community comes to grips with some very uncomfortable truths about the next phase of the North Korean crisis.
Sep 20, 2017
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed “to maximise pressure” on North Korea, the White House has announced, as the US president prepares to use hi
Yun Sun, Director of the China Program and Co-director of the East Asia Program, Stimson Center
Sep 21, 2017
China is stuck between a rock and a hard place on North Korea, but any change in the country’s policy towards North Korea would require a fundamental change in China’s cost-benefit analysis of the current situation. More provocations by North Korea won’t change China’s policy, unless they are bound to lead to a war. Without understanding this crucial point, the world will continue to be disappointed by the insufficiency of the Chinese response.
Cui Lei, Research Fellow, China Institute of International Studies
Sep 19, 2017
Key stakeholders in the North Korean issue need to recognize that Pyongyang is and will remain a nuclear power. Negotiations can proceed from that basis.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Sep 18, 2017
As the US policy strategy has failed in the Korean Peninsula, ominous scenarios cast a shadow over the region - and the chance for peace.
CNBC,
Sep 15, 2017
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday urged China to use its leverage as North Korea's principal supplier of oil to press the isolated nation into r
Sep 10, 2017
Beijing has struggled to hide signs of an about-face in sentiment towards North Korea following claims of a successful Hydrogen bomb test on last Sunday.
Sep 12, 2017
US President Donald Trump has regularly called on China to stop North Korea’s nuclear advancement, even saying in July it could “easily” end t
Jeffrey Frankel, Professor, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
Sep 11, 2017
Trump imagines that he can use trade threats against China as “bargaining chips” to secure its help in dealing with North Korea. If so, he is on the wrong track. The U.S. and South Korea should be prepared to pause the deployment of THAAD (the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system) as a short-term gesture in return for China enacting and enforcing full sanctions.