Posts Tagged ‘Korean Peninsula’
Dropping Denuclearisation: North Korea in China and US Defence Priorities
US and Chinese government decisions to soften tone on nuclear threat represents latest positive for Pyongyang amid improving ties with global powers.
Sea Change: the DPRK, and Russia’s New Maritime Power
Growing Moscow-Pyongyang alliance poses new naval security questions for main Northeast Asian military powers the US and China.
A Most Peculiar Country: China’s Southern Weekly on North Korea
F. Bleeker translates a Southern Weekly article indicating that Chinese hopes for Kim Jong-un as reformer have given way to perceptions of a tougher neighbor than his late father ever was.
Lawfare Redux: Towards a Declaratory Posture for North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal
While some analysts predict a third North Korean nuclear test, Scott Bruce explores how assuming a “declaratory posture” as a nuclear weapons state might serve an equally strategic purpose for the DPRK. Intro by Roger Cavazos.
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