Secretary of State John Kerry said that the U.S. and South Korea remain “firmly unified” against North Korean nuclear missile …
North Korea
The Upside to Dennis Rodman’s Bizarre North Korea Visits
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Three Ways to Tell if Someone Is Plotting a Coup Against You
Creative ways for paranoid dictators can sniff out—and snuff out—their enemies
A 21st Century North Korea POW
Why an 85-year-old American veteran has been held by Pyongyang for more than a month
Reading the Tea Leaves in Newly Announced U.S. Talks with North Korea
Despite the change in regime, the lines of communication between the U.S. and North Korea have remained open, leading to the announcement on Monday that they they would hold talks on Feb. 23 in Beijing. It will be the third in a series of “conversations” between the two countries which began last July in the hopes of restarting the …
Inside Kim Jong Il’s Eerie Authoritarian World
To understand just how hard it is for the Obama Administration or anyone else to predict what the death of Kim Jong Il will bring to North Korea, it helps to understand just what a backward, out-of-touch place that country is. …
Debating Afghanistan
If you haven’t already noticed on CSPAN2, the Senate has begun debate on the FY2010 Defense Appropriations bill. Typically, defense is the last of the 13 spending bills to be passed because it’s a must pass – ie, you can’t not update military funding in a time of war – and it often becomes a Christmas tree for all the pork that …
Risks and Recklessness in Journalism
Our colleague Massimo Calabresi knows a lot about the risks a reporter must take to uncover the truth in an international danger zone. From 1995 to 1999, Massimo covered wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo for TIME. He was once detained in Serb-held Bosnia while investigating mass graves there as part of a reporting project that earned …
Here’s A Test
Is it possible that the North Koreans launched a July 4 cyber attack on the US government? If so, what’s the appropriate retaliation? Should we turn the electricity in Pyongyang on and off a few times, if we can do it?
The North Koreans are clearly in the midst of some sort of internal meltdown, probably having to do with a …