A New Phase Opens on North Korea; Is the U.S. Ready? - Wall Street Journal
A tricky new phase in the world’s most dangerous problem, the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program, has just opened. The U.S. had better be ready. But is it?
Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
A tricky new phase in the world’s most dangerous problem, the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program, has just opened. The U.S. had better be ready. But is it?
Last month, the former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met privately with Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, a global gathering of foreign-policy glitterati. The diplomatic odd couple once met openly and often—more with each other than with any other foreign leaders—during two years of feisty negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal. No longer.
Rosarie Tucci was among the featured panelists who spoke to Wake about the decline in global freedom following Freedom House’s recent report on global freedom.
As Pakistan navigates its troubled relationship with the United States and scrambles to avoid being blacklisted for doing too little, too late to stop terror funding, regional alliances are shifting and analysts ponder whether a cozier relationship with countries like Russia will complicate efforts to move toward peace in neighboring Afghanistan.
On February 23, 2018, Turkmenistan announced the commencement of construction work on the Afghan section of an $8 billion natural gas pipeline that will link the energy-rich Central Asian nation to Pakistan and India. The work on the Turkmenistan section of the project has been completed.
"Hell on earth" is how U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the scenes in Syria's eastern Ghouta region this week. More than 400 people have been killed and 500 others injured — mostly civilians — as a recent rise in bombings on the area continues.
Although ISIS has been largely defeated in Syria, the seven year war in the country continues. It may even be getting chaotic, complicated, and violent. Last week the Syrian government forces bombarded the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, killing an estimated 200 people in just a few days. Meanwhile, American-supported Kurds...
Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
Frank Aum spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about the Korean Peninsula, and whether there is a pathway to keep the peaceful momentum going after the Olympic Games. Aum also addressed the strategies being pursued by North Korea, South Korea and the United States in addition to the effect of international sanctions on North Korea and China’s interests.
Garrett Nada graduated from the Elliott School with an MA in Middle East studies in 2012 and from Brandeis University in 2010 with a BA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, with a minor in Hebrew Language and Literature. In summer 2011, he received an Aramex grant through this program to...