Tag: North Korea
Toward a Second North Korean Summit: Adjusting US Expectations
Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is still very difficult." (Carl von Clausewitz, On War)
Donald Trump plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sometime toward the end of February. From...
Influencing North Korea’s nuclear calculations: Trump’s obligation to think strategically
It should now be obvious that the North Korean ruler has no intention of giving up his country’s growing nuclear weapons program. To insistently demand “complete denuclearization” from Kim Jung Un represents a foolish...
South Korea to buy Israeli radar systems to counter potential missile threats
South Korea announced that it is buying two Israeli-made radar systems to counter missile threats, despite warming ties with North Korea, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday.
Seoul is purchasing two Green Pine radar arrays made...
South Korean Ministry of Unification sees results of ‘aliyah’ up close in Israel
Nefesh B’Nefesh hosted a four-person delegation on Monday from the South Korean Ministry of Unification, the government office that is preparing to handle the possible future integration of North and South Korea.
To be prepared...
Wanted: A Plan for Nuclear Diplomacy
Trump will have no remaining choice but to “live with” a nuclear North Korea, and the United States will finally have to focus on meaningfully tangible and authentically realistic goals.
It’s time to talk substance...
Trump, Kim and the ‘good citizen’
One of the many memorable scenes in “The Lives of Others”—an exemplary German movie whose plot centers on the Stasi secret police in the late, unlamented German Democratic Republic—involves the indiscreet telling of a...
The United States and North Korea: Deterrence, Not “Denuclearization”
“Men as a rule willingly believe what they want to believe.” (Julius Caesar, Caesar's Gallic War, Book III, Chapter 18)
Following the manifestly inconclusive Singapore summit, when not even the definition of "complete denuclearization" could be agreed upon,...
Netanyahu commends Trump on North Korea summit, stance on Iranian nukes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commended U.S. President Donald Trump on his “historic” summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Tuesday.
“I commend U.S. President Donald Trump on the historic summit in Singapore. This...
North Korea, Nuclear Diplomacy, and International Law
"Where will it end? When will it all be lulled back into sleep, and cease, the bloody hatreds, the destruction?"
-Aeschylus, presenting the conclusion of Agamemnon
If US President Donald Trump should sometime manage to re-start the...
Kim Jong Un: ‘Deranged’ Trump will ‘pay dearly’ for threat
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called President Donald Trump “deranged” and said he will “pay dearly” for his threats, a possible indication of more powerful weapons tests on...