Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
As the North Korean regime continues to issue provocative warnings for foreigners to evacuate the Korean peninsula, suggesting military escalation, regional cooperation has become essential to maintainingstability on the peninsula.
After weeks of escalating rhetoric, tensions between North Korea and the United States appear to be easing. But what prompted Pyongyang’s recent provocative statements?
China is reassessing its policy calculus toward the Korean Peninsula.
The Asia and the Pacific region continues to be the global growth leader even as it faces significant development challenges and downside risks.
North Korea has issued new threats against South Korea and has demanded an apology for protests in the South.
During the coming week, the United States and South Korea will again attack the sticking point that since 2011 has bedeviled the negotiation of a new bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s first visit to China will likely see a focus on security on the Korean peninsula, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, and cyber security.
If the non-proliferation regime is going to prove sustainable for many decades in the future, it will need to rely on political good will between the countries that don’t have nuclear weapons and the countries that do have them.
Kim Jong Un’s challenge is to hold power in a world where democracies seem to be overtaking autocracies.
In China, Kerry needs to focus on the broader context of the U.S.-China strategic relationship and how North Korea will harm this relationship.