Sanctions alone will not bring transformation in North Korea. We need a combination of engagement and subversion, a strategy that helped win the Cold War.

North Korea presents a troubling paradox in modern development: it is one of the dwindling number of countries continually on the verge of famine, but it also the newest member of the select club of states to possess both nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic rocketry. This marriage of economic privation...

An annotated syllabus on North Korean politics, culture, and economy.

Kim Jong Il and his cronies want nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.

The North Korean challenge is complex, but by now all too familiar. Nearly two decades of negotiations have failed to resolve the nuclear problem, and North Korea has been carrying out aggression against the South for much longer than that. It is time for the allies to try something new.

We are witnessing the collapse of the conventional wisdom about the relationship between tyrannical rulers and their subjects as we participate in the global struggle against tyranny.

The South Korean government seems indifferent to the plight of the tens of thousands of North Koreans who have escaped the Kim Jong Il regime.