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The Restraint Crowd Facepalms Over Biden’s Ukraine Threats
In The News
President Joe Biden’s face-off with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over Ukraine has deeply unsettled progressive lawmakers and other advocates of a restrained U.S. foreign poli...
By Richard Fontaine
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Five Things To Know About the Controversial Beijing Olympics
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is seeking to project China’s strength on the world stage at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Friday, but the global spor...
By Jacob Stokes
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North Korea Confirms Test of a Missile Capable of Striking Guam
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North Korea confirmed Monday that it test-launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam — Pyongyang’s most significant weapon...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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With Seven Tests in a Month, North Korea Calls for World to Accept Its Missiles
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North Korea's unusually active month of missile testing appears aimed in part at securing global acceptance of its sanctioned weapons programmes, analysts said, whether throug...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Biden Seeks to Ward Off Second Ukraine-Russia Fight
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When Joe Biden was vice president, he was the point person on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and became so vested in the crisis that some academics believed it would ...
By Richard Fontaine
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North Korea Slams US, Hints at Resuming Nuclear, ICBM Tests
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Accusing the United States of hostility and threats, North Korea on Thursday said it will consider restarting “all temporally-suspended activities” it had paused during its di...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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North Korea Says U.S. Hostility Has Reached 'Danger Line,' Can No Longer Be Ignored
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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un accused the United States of hostility and threats, which he used as a reason to resume testing of nuclear explosives and intercontinental balli...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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New Report Addresses Dealing with a Taliban Controlled Afghanistan
Press Release
Washington, January 20, 2022—Nearly 20 years after U.S. forces overturned Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the country is likely to reemerge as a terrorist hotbed. While competing...
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South Korea Gender Divide Emerges as Key Election Issue
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The issue of gender has taken center stage in South Korea's fiercely contested presidential election campaign, with both of the leading candidates proposing policies designed ...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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N.Korea Fires Missiles, Drawing Both U.S. Condemnation and Appeal for Talks
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North Korea fired at least two ballistic missiles on Friday, drawing both condemnation and an appeal for dialogue from a U.S. administration that has imposed new sanctions ove...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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North Korea Fires Missiles From Train in Third Launch of 2022
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North Korea’s latest launch involved a pair of missiles fired from a train, North Korean state media reported, offering details about what was already its third launch this ye...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Biden Strategy on North Korea Under Pressure Over Missile Launches
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President Biden may soon be forced to take action amid threats from an increasingly aggressive North Korea, which has flexed its military might in recent days with provocative...
By Jacob Stokes
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Threat of Retaliation Looms Large Over U.S.-China Relationship in 2022
With tensions unlikely to abate in 2022, the U.S.-China relationship over the next year is likely to be colored by the omnipresent threat of Chinese retaliation against a vari...
By Jacob Stokes
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Congressional Probe Over Afghan Withdrawal Turns Partisan
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Congressional Republicans are concerned that the Biden administration is stonewalling their investigation into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, members of Congres...
By Lisa Curtis
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Ten Years of Kim Jong-un as North Korean Leader: How Has He Transformed the Country in His First Decade in Power?
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North Korea this week marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il, who ruled the country from 1994 to 2011, when he was relieved by his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, w...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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From ‘Tempestuous’ Child to Little Rocket Man: 10 Years of Kim Jong-un
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It was not, perhaps, the image Kim Jong-un would have wanted to project in his first public appearance as the latest authoritarian leader of North Korea in 2011. As wailing ci...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Press Note
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The FY2022 National Defense Authorization ActAfter weeks of delay, the United States Congress passed the long-awaited $770 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—setting the nation’s defense expenditures and p...
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Is South Korea Close to Officially Ending the Korean War?
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in said this week that the U.S., China and North Korea agreed in principle on declaring a formal end to the Korean War, replacing an armistice ...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Analysis-N.Korea After 10 years of Kim Jong Un: Better Armed but More Isolated Than Ever
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Ten years after Kim Jong Un assumed power North Korea is better armed but deeply isolated and more dependent on China, despite actions by the young leader that raised - and da...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Democracy vs. China: Biden’s Top Priorities Are Sometimes in Conflict
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President Biden has described the global competition between the U.S. and China as a battle of democracy vs. autocracy. The reality is often murkier. Reality check: “If we onl...
By Lisa Curtis
