The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and AEI will be launching a new HRNK report entitled, “Marked For Life: Songbun, North Korea’s Social Classification System,” which will be discussed at this event. The panel will also examine the extent to which the growing reliance on money and bribery is eroding the songbun system’s influence.

The administration has been so reactive, so profligate in its use of adjectives and reticent in its use of actual power, it is really—I would use the word 'disappointing,' except it's nothing but what I expect. But it has got to be crushingly disappointing to the people of Syria.

Amnesty’s call for Bush’s arrest was a blatantly partisan act — and it wasn’t the first time the group had done so.

Internationally, much attention is given to the ongoing Iranian nuclear negotiations, but almost no attention is directed at the numerous human rights violations perpetrated against Iranian men, women, and young people by the mullahs.A Few Simple Shots is a documentary film produced by an independent Canadian filmmaker. Despite...

While the United States has more or less effectively taken advantage of the opportunities afforded by China’s rise, its record on addressing the challenges posed by that rise is shakier. These challenges, of course, are great and threaten to directly impinge on U.S. national security interests.

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For a bankrupt country in the middle of hyperinflation, the discovery of a major diamond deposit in Zimbabwe in June 2006 should have been good news. Instead it has provided sustenance to a volatile and violent political elite that suppresses the majority. The power sharing/coalition government in Zimbabwe came into...

Ahead of their next debate November 22, the Republican presidential candidates are getting executive briefings on hot-button foreign policy and national security issues. But you don’t have to run for president to get a speed-read.