Category Archives: North Korea

October 27, 2020—Whither North Korea?

October 27, 2020—Whither North Korea?

North Korea continues to produce nuclear material and, between May 2019 and late March 2020, conducted multiple short-range ballistic missile tests in violation of United Nations Security Council prohibitions. And Kim Jong Un rolled out a new major intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM) during an October 10, 2020 nighttime parade in Pyongyang. Read Full Story

January 7, 2020—Changing Course in a Still Dangerous Iran

January 7, 2020—Changing Course in a Still Dangerous Iran

Politically charged reports of the attack that killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and the Iraqi Militia commander have largely ignored its response to important historical facts, last week’s Iranian attack that killed an American and wounded four soldiers and intelligence reports of pending threatened additional Iranian attacks on Americans. And hopefully that President Trump’s consequential decision has changed the dynamics in the Middle East in a positive way. Read Full Story

March 5, 2019—On Reykjavik Delusions!

March 5, 2019—On Reykjavik Delusions!

Many have compared when last week President Trump walked out of his Hanoi meeting with Kim Jong Un and when Ronald Reagan walked out of his October 1986 Reykjavik Summit with Mikhail Gorbachev, without indicating and understanding fundamental differences between the two important events. Read Full Story

November 27, 2018—North Korea’s Rattling Cages Again … and Iran?

November 27, 2018—North Korea’s Rattling Cages Again … and Iran?

Recent articles report that North Korea is planning not to give up all its nuclear arsenal; and that the communist government has revealed plans to use the weapons to launch EMP attacks to dismantle technology and computers in the blast area. And then there’s new evidence that Iran has been building nuclear weapons. Surprise… Read Full Story

May 1, 2018—North Korea Do-Over?

May 1, 2018—North Korea Do-Over?

For the first time since I was a high school junior, the leaders of North and South Korea met last week in the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) where the armistice was signed ending the Korean War, but not the conflict and associated hostility that continues to this day. Is this really good news or will it just set the stage of a replay of past North Korean duplicity and U.S. accommodation? Read Full Story