North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, who passed away at the age of 69, has bequeathed a legacy of poverty and starvation to the country's subject population, and a highly uncertain future to his nominal legatees, the Communist royals of his dynastic police state.

While America's efforts to build the Iraqi and Afghan armies have captured headlines, the creation of effective, uncorrupt, and nonsectarian police forces is arguably an even greater challenge for the United States in the war on terror. Lying uneasily at the intersection of development and security policy, U.S. and international...

Police assistance will continue to be a critical American mission for the foreseeable future, while the U.S. government will continue to be organized in such a way as to be bad at it.

Police assistance will continue to be a critical American mission for the foreseeable future, while the U.S. government will continue to be organized in such a way as to be bad at it.

Everyone wants to take guns away from criminals, butif the law-abiding citizens obey the laws and the criminals do not, the rules create sitting ducks who cannot defend themselves.

United Press International covers AEI's December 2, 2002, event on the North Korean refugee crisis.

On Sunday, February 25, 1990, Nicaraguans went to the ballot boxes and quietly voted out of office Marxist President Daniel Ortega, running for reelection against Mrs. Violeta Chamorro, publisher of the opposition daily La Prensa and head of a fourteen-party coalition known by its Spanish acronym UNO. 

If things develop in Eastern Europe as expected, Europeans will have new burdens to assume. Americans will have old burdens to relinquish.