By Chris Johnson, Victor Cha, & Mike Green Over the past month, North Korea’s 29-year-old leader, Kim Jong Un, has threatened to attack Washington with nuclear weapons, declared a state of war with neighboring South Korea and warned diplomats to…
By John Warden Maintaining stability in U.S.-China nuclear relations will be critical to the interests of the United States and those of its allies and partners in the coming years. Nuclear weapons are by no means central to the U.S.-China…
By Sharon Squassoni Two months ago, North Korea conducted a third nuclear weapons test, prompting a rebuke from the UN Security Council and more sanctions from the United States and others. Amid the torrid rhetoric of preemptive nuclear strikes…
On April 2, 2013, CSIS Korea Chair and cogitASIA regular Victor Cha appeared on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report to discuss the high tensions on the Korean Pensinula. Enjoy. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire…
By Victor Cha A KCNA report in English revealed that Kim Jong-un has signed off on an order for the military to prepare rockets on standby for a strike on the U.S. mainland and U.S. military bases in the Pacific,…
By Tianyi Wang On February 12, 2013, North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test, potentially improving its capacity to develop miniaturized nuclear devices for possible delivery on intercontinental ballistic missiles. In response to yet another nuclear provocation, the Chinese…
By Harsh V. Pant With the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) winning a landslide in Japanese parliamentary elections and Shinzo Abe assuming the office of prime minister in Japan, India-Japan relations have entered a new phase. For Japan, embroiled in its…
By Victor Cha Editor’s Note: The CSIS Asia Team is writing a series of analyses that forecasts key issues and challenges in the Asia-Pacific. In this post Dr. Victor Cha answers key questions about two crucial foreign policy relationships that…
Four important developments in Asia from this week and one key event to keep an eye out for next week. 1. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left for a trip that will include stops in Japan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos,…
By Matt Goodman The Japanese have a word, ganbaru, that loosely translates as “show resolve.” It is the quintessentially Japanese quality that the world has seen so movingly on display since the triple disasters of March 11, 2011. As measured…
