TOPICS: ‘Kim Jong-Un’
What threat does North Korea pose to the US? Is there something different with this year's US-SK joint exercises and the predictable North Korean crisis?
Read more...North Korea: A New Kim on the BlockDecember 21, 2011 / Amy StuddartTransatlantic Take
Despite tensions between Washington and Beijing, the primary U.S. concern in North Korea — containing Pyongyang’s nuclear proliferation and aggressive behavior — was not fundamentally at odds with that of the Chinese, which was to hold the regime together. There was too much at stake, and too few incentives, to do much more.That confluence was never more than a short-term arrangement, however, and it has just been terminated with the death of North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong-Il. Read more...GMF Asia Experts Comment on Death of Kim Jong-ilDecember 19, 2011 / Amy Studdart
The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il casts a pall of uncertainty over the impoverished but nuclear-armed regime he leaves behind. GMF experts have provided the following comments for use by the media.
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