List of South Korea articles
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North (top) and South (bottom) Korean border posts on Aug. 21, 2015. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP/Getty Images) Seven Reasons Why Putting U.S. Nukes Back in South Korea Is a Terrible Idea
Here are seven reasons why the United States should not seek to deploy nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula.
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This picture from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released on Aug. 30 shows North Korea's intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Your Apocalyptic Fantasies Aren’t Helping the North Korea Crisis
Stop speculating about nuclear war, and start asking these six questions about the Trump administration’s policies toward Pyongyang.
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South Korean soldiers stand guard on the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) North Korea Reportedly Hacks Treasure Trove of U.S., South Korean War Plans
The revelation comes as Defense Secretary Mattis tells the Army to ready itself.
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This picture taken on September 25, 2017 shows South Korean cadets standing in front of a Hyunmoo-3 cruise missile system during a media day presentation of a commemoration event marking South Korea's Armed Forces Day, which will fall on October 1, at the Second Fleet Command of Navy in Pyeongtaek. / AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) It’s Time to Reckon With What It Would Really Take to Deter North Korea
A policy of unification would perhaps forestall the irreversible nuclearization of Asia.
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 19: President Donald Trump speaks to world leaders at the 72nd United Nations (UN) General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017 in New York City. This is Trump's first appearance at the General Assembly where he addressed threats from Iran and North Korea among other global concerns. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Trump’s Belligerent Talk on North Korea Rattles Turtle Bay
Talk of “destroying” Pyongyang has unsettled what was near-unanimity in reining in the Hermit Kingdom.
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TOPSHOT - North Korean soldiers patrol next to the border fence near the town of Sinuiju across from the Chinese border town of Dandong on February 10, 2016. North Korea has restarted a plutonium reactor that could fuel a nuclear bomb and is seeking missile technology that could threaten the United States, Washington's top spy said. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE / AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) Regime Change by Exit Visa
How to take down Kim Jong Un by taking in his huddled masses.
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A front view of four nuclear free-fall bombs on a bomb cart. Like I was saying: Tactical nukes are on the table for use against North Korea
Here’s an exchange Defense Secretary James Mattis had with reporters yesterday about tactical nuclear weapons.
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South Korea's K-1 tank fires during a joint military drill between US and South Korean Marines at a fire training field in the southeastern port of Pohang on July 6, 2016. South Korea and the United States are conducting a joint marine infiltration and attack exercise, testing the interoperability of the two countries' forces for a potential operation against North Korea. / AFP / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) A Sneak Peek at America’s War Plans for North Korea
The Pentagon has been running war games for years, and the results aren’t pretty.
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South Korean soldiers stand guard at a guard post near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing two Koreas in the border city of Paju on August 11, 2017. As nuclear-armed North Korea's missile stand-off with the US escalates, calls are mounting in the South for Seoul to build nuclear weapons of its own to defend itself -- which would complicate the situation even further. / AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) The United States Should Talk to North Korea
Trump needs to focus on reassuring U.S. allies, engage with North Korea, and stop doing Pyongyang favors.
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Photo taken on January 11, 2011 shows containers stacked up at a terminal in the southeastern port city of Busan. South Korea's economy grew at an eight-year high of 6.1 percent last year, the central bank said on January 26, 2011, with fourth-quarter growth slowing compared with July-September but rising from a year earlier. AFP PHOTO / PARK JI-HWAN (Photo credit should read PARK JI-HWAN/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Is Considering the Worst Possible Response to the North Korean Threat
Withdrawal from KORUS would be a self-inflicted wound.
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Pedestrians watch the news on a huge screen displaying a map of Japan (R) and the Korean Peninsula, in Tokyo on August 29, 2017, following a North Korean missile test that passed over Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on August 29 that he and US President Donald Trump agreed to hike pressure on North Korea after it launched a ballistic missile over Japan, in Pyongyang's most serious provocation in years. / AFP PHOTO / Toshifumi KITAMURA (Photo credit should read TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images) North Korea’s Nuclear and Missile Tests Are Aimed at Splitting Its Rivals
Can Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. stand firm against Pyongyang's efforts to drive wedges among them?
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - SEPTEMBER 03: Officers of the Korea Meteorological Administration watch TV news reporting on a possible nuclear test conducted by North Korea at the Korea Meteorological Administration center on September 3, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea, Japan and the U.S. detected an artificial earthquake from Kilju in the northern Hamgyong Province of North Korea. The Japanese government has confirmed they believe it was North Korea's sixth nuclear test. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) North Korean Nuclear Test Spites Both Washington and Beijing
The blast was deliberately timed as a slap in the face for Donald Trump — and perhaps for Xi Jinping too.
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WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 17: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (2ndR), Defense Secretary James Mattis (R), shake hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (2ndL) and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (L), during a meeting of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee at the State Department, on August 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Tokyo and Washington Have Another Nuclear Problem
There’s a plutonium arms race brewing in East Asia that could see China, Japan, and South Korea with the capability to make tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.
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TOPSHOT - This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 14, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) inspecting the "Dropping and Target-striking Contest of KPA Special Operation Forces - 2017" at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has overseen a special forces commando operation, state media said on April 13, as tensions soar with Washington over Pyongyang's nuclear programme. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) The Supreme Art of War on the Korean Peninsula: Regime Change Through Targeting the Mind of Kim Jong Un
When I was the chief war planner for the U.S. Army’s 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea, I spent considerable time studying Sun Tzu, including this passage: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
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TOPSHOT - This undated picture released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on March 7, 2017 shows the launch of four ballistic missiles by the Korean People's Army (KPA) during a military drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Nuclear-armed North Korea launched four ballistic missiles on March 6 in another challenge to President Donald Trump, with three landing provocatively close to America's ally Japan. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) How to Learn to Live With a Nuclear North Korea
The best chance for getting Pyongyang to give up its weapons is actually letting it have them.
