Putin wants ammunition out of the Russia-North Korea summit; North Korea wants access to satellite and submarine technology — in violation of UN sanctions.
How about penalizing Chinese and Russian entities still engaging in trade with North Korea? Or preventing Pyongyang from stealing assets through cyberattacks?
The three parties meeting at Camp David are well aware that Kim Jong Un is building an arsenal of weapons that threaten the peace of Northeast...
Russia's attack on Ukraine has emboldened Kim Jong Un and destabilized Northeast Asia's security environment, realize the leaders of both Japan and South Korea.
Edited by Sebastian Maslow and Christian Wirth, "Crisis Narratives" assembles the work of a dozen scholars to explain how Japan has changed since the 1990s.
Terrible memories of the atomic bombing endure yet predictions are that Japan's national strategy of vigorous diplomacy will show the way to reconciliation.
Diplomacy has not stopped North Korea from firing off missiles. Japan must have what it takes to punish it as an aggressor nation.
With its provocative missile launches and nuclear threats, North Korea is causing Japan and South Korea to rethink deterrence and alliance-based cooperation.
The premise of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has collapsed. Threatened by North Korea and others, Japan needs a new approach to nuclear deterrence.
On a per capita basis, South Korea is spending more than twice as much on defense, and its weapons development budget is believed to be triple...
Japan remains constantly exposed to the menace of North Korean missiles, and ominously the Kim regime recently "legalized" its use of nuclear weapons.
How then can Tokyo persuasively call upon allies to cooperate in deterring China and North Korea amid the high level of regional threats?
