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Despite the continuing efforts to resolve the North Korean challenge, there have been no signs that a resolution is near, and North Korea remains a global threat beyond its nuclear ambitions.

This piece lays out the challenges ahead for achieving the goals set out in the Singapore Joint Statement from Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump.

This outlines Russia’s solution to the North Korea crisis. Russia remains firmly opposed to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, but wants to solve the crisis diplomatically. Russian ministers have outlined a state-by-stage plan, focused on dialogue.

This article explores the reaction within Chinese politics to the Trump administration’s threat to close off access to U.S. fiscal systems to any bank that facilitates trade with North Korea.

This argues that encouraging Japan and South Korea to nuclearize in order to maintain stability in the region would lead to increasing tensions and create a “Mexican standoff” where no one can back down form a crisis.

This emphasizes that South Korea needs to include biological and chemical weapons in negotiations and any eventual agreement on North Korean denuclearization.

Despite its openness to dialogue, North Korea does not intend to abandon its policy of nuclear deterrence. Instead, it aims to end its isolation, improve its economic situation, and gain recognition as a legitimate nuclear weapons state.

This paper argues the U.S., in partnership with Japan and South Korea, must consider offering the first concession to North Korea by assuring no-first-use of military action in exchange for a full stop of North Korea’s nuclear and missile testing program.

This commentary argues that while most analysts insist the Trump administration’s threats toward North Korea are bluff and bluster, one must pay heed to increasingly fatalistic language as it suggests that matters are coming to a head.