The Sunshine Policy, an effort to engage North Korea initially implemented under South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, appears increasingly ineffective in light of North Korea's continued nuclear threat and oppression of its people.

The upcoming party conference will decide who will be Kim Jong Il's successor and what direction North Korea will take in order to meet its goals for 2012.

“What happens next?” is not really the question we should be asking. More important is to ask what the United States wants to happen next, and what it can do to bring about that outcome.

There can be no doubt that the United States will defend South Korea against naked aggression, no matter who our president is. North Korea, however, has miscalculated about this before.

Review of The Two Koreas, by Don Oberdorfer.

The essence of the "North Korean crisis" is in fact the North Korean regime: its outlook, behavior, and intentions.

MacArthur, a new PBS television biography,is must viewing for armchair generals commanding NATO forces in the Balkans from their Barcaloungers.