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Missiles are Kim's insurance policy
News, Nutthathirataa Withitwinyuchon, Published on 02/09/2019
» Why is North Korea unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons with the current US approach?
Momentum for peace
News, Editorial, Published on 26/02/2019
» The cast is assembling in Hanoi for a performance probably worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. Trump-Kim Summit II isn't likely to produce anything resembling nuclear disarmament. But the personal diplomacy of the US president and North Korea's leader has indisputably removed the threat of the most terrible kind of warfare from Northeast Asia and the entire region.
Donald Trump is in denial about North Korea's nukes
News, Kent Harrington, Published on 24/07/2018
» No one yet knows what deals US President Donald Trump may have struck with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their private two-hour meeting in Helsinki. But it is already clear that Mr Trump's self-congratulations for striking a deal to "denuclearise" the Korean Peninsula during his Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un are ringing hollow.
North Korea and the art of the deal
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/05/2018
» The summit is on, it's off, it's sort of on again. It's amateur night every night at the White House, and the fate of the US-North Korean summit scheduled for Singapore on 12 June will be decided by the coin Donald Trump flips each day: heads three days in a row means "yes", tails three days in a row and the meeting stays cancelled.
Cancelled Trump-Kim summit risks sparking crisis
News, Matt Spetalnick & Arshad Mohammed, Published on 26/05/2018
» President Donald Trump's cancellation of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un risks a return to crisis mode between Washington and Pyongyang but both sides may be wary of letting the situation escalate into fears of war as it did last year.