By Victor Cha — The UN Security Council adopted UNSCR 2270 on March 2 by a unanimous vote [15-0]. The resolution comes nearly two months after the January 6 nuclear test and presents a broader set of heightened sanctions against…
By Victor Cha & Andy Lim Kim Jong-un has had a busy start to 2016, with a nuclear test in January, a claimed hydrogen bomb test and his third overall, and a long-range missile/satellite test over the weekend added to…
CSIS scholars and CogitAsia contributors Victor Cha and Bonnie Glaser testified on the “U.S. Response to North Korea’s Nuclear Provocations” before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Asia on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. Watch their testimony, along with…
By Bonnie Glaser Q1: Was the official statement by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs particularly harsh? No. China’s foreign ministry statement said that it is “firmly opposed” to North Korea’s nuclear test. It “strongly” urged the DPRK to honor its…
By Victor Cha Earlier today, North Korea announced it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test. We take a look at the road ahead for the United Nations and the United States in response in our latest snapshot post: The United…
This week the show explores Australia’s future strategy amid a complex geopolitical landscape down under. To do this, we spoke with CSIS Distinguished Visiting Fellow Andrew Shearer, former Australian National Security Advisor and previously the director of studies at the…
As the Conference of Parties in Paris comes to a close and negotiators put the final touches on a new climate accord, the hard work is only just beginning. Southeast Asia will face a particularly difficult time slashing carbon emissions…
By Murray Hiebert Much of the focus at the Paris climate summit that began on November 30 will be on the delegations from the United States, China, and India, and the pledges of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters to…
By Zachary Abuza The November 13 coordinated attacks in Paris by followers of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which led to the death of 129 people, have revived fears of the movement’s spread to Southeast Asia,…
By Victor Cha & Lisa Collins — Tensions between North and South Korea escalated rapidly in the late summer of 2015 after an August 4 landmine blast in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), the fortified border that separates the two sides…
