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This article argues that the Trump administration’s approach to North Korea is actually effective. Using textbook crisis management strategy, Trump has raised the cost of North Korea’s nuclear program, and gotten China on board with enforcing sanctions.

This piece discusses the distance between current South Korean officials and its partners on North Korea and the stubborn refusal to admit how unlikely complete, verifiable, irreversible disarmament (CVID) is. It then considers other alternatives to CVID.

Growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula underscore the volatility of the region. In this piece, the authors examine South Korea's potential role in bridging differences between major powers to facilitate peace and cooperation.

The UN Panel of Experts reported that Iran and North Korea have resumed missile cooperation. Iran will not forgo its missile program. Policymakers should aim to negotiate a missile range limit and persuade Iran to accept transparency measures promptly.

Russia’s recent diplomatic engagement with North Korea may give hope for resuming denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and the international community.

For Germany and Europe, finding a peaceful solution to the North Korean conflict—or at least preventing military escalation—is critical. This collection addresses how to consolidate global order structures to avoid an all-out war.

This publication argues that tackling North Korea’s increasing nuclear and missile ambitions and capability requires a great-power consensus that is currently unattainable due to strong disagreements between the United States, China, and Russia.

EAI experts assess Kim Jong Un’s 2019 New Year’s address and argue that given the United States and North Korea disagree on what constitutes complete denuclearization, the second Trump-Kim summit will not resolve fundamental problems.

This examines what the North Korean leader is hoping to achieve with his nuclear weapons program and argues that the experience of Libya and Iraq is a reminder to Pyongyang that the only guarantee of national survival is the possession of nuclear weapons.

Given the failure of past UN Security Council resolutions to resolve North Korea’s nuclear issue, the author proposes a more collaborative approach and increased incentives for Pyongyang to denuclearize.