Nuclear weapons expert and founder of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), David Albright, recently published a damaging report about Shenyang Machine Tools Company. The large Chinese company, which builds military aircraft among other commercial products, allegedly supplied North Korea with banned technology
Since the end of the Cold War, the North Korean nuclear program has dominated not only regional, but also global security discourse. Much of the world’s North Korea policy has focused on convincing the Kim dynasty to either halt or roll back its nuclear program,
In much of the world, the political current has changed course from globalization towards nationalism. While military spending and sharp upticks in nationalism are not always entirely related, one often follows the other. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, ran on a campaign of,
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed the impeached president, Park Geun-hye, from office, and a general election for the new president will take place in May. With the mounting scandals in both political and economic sectors last few months, the liberal opposition gained significant momentum, and
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is once again in the news in South Korea, the US, China and around the world. The missile system is capable of connecting with and destroying a ballistic missile in its descent and therefore functions as a last chance
North Korea recently announced through its state-run Central News Agency that it had successfully created and tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) engine. While there are few details and no third-party objectively confirming what happened, the mere possibility of this is alarming to observers around
What is ideology in North Korea? It is, as the author Hyung Gu Lynn wrote, a monumental illusion characterized by a great ideological and political utility and coherence. An illusion that it is as much metaphysical as it is real in affecting politics and life
