Cooperating with U.S.-led sanctions against Tehran would bring New Delhi long-term dividends

In the coming confused days, the United States and South Korea should make clear to Pyongyang’s diplomats that no destabilizing actions will be tolerated and that the two will act to protect their joint interests and uphold peace on the peninsula and in the region, including Japan.

The acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran would be an extremely destabilizing event in the Middle East, making it more difficult to deter Iran from undertaking conventional and unconventional warfare, including terrorism.

North Korean leadership is confident it can manipulate the "6-Party" process to generate further, perhaps unprecedented, benefits for its otherwise impoverished and discredited regime.

On February 19, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met with their Japanese counterparts to adopt a Joint Statement on common strategic objectives and defense cooperation. At this meeting, the United States and Japan clearly stated their common interests in the de-nuclearization of North Korea...

Recent advances in Iran’s nuclear weapons program show that events are moving extraordinarily swiftly, as Tehran nears the end of its decades-long quest to possess a lethal WMD capability.

We are watching Iran move closer to nuclearization--and our restraint is making us no new friends.

The North Korean nuclear test--if that indeed is what it was--signals the catastrophic collapse of a dozen years of American policy.