Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) programs don’t pop-up overnight, especially in third-world backwaters like North Korea. Yet North Korea has announced via state-run media that it is capable of the “final stage of uranium enrichment.”
How shocking! There were no clues! There was no way to know this!
Well, not really. All [...]

Hillary Clinton, speaking at a graduation ceremony at Barnard College in New York City, displayed an amazing degree of naiveté:
“We have two young women journalists right now imprisoned in North Korea and you can get busy on the Internet and let the North Koreans know that we find that absolutely unacceptable,” Clinton told the [...]

Mike Chinoy, formerly CNN’s senior Asia correspondent, has a new book, Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis, which attempts to tell the story of North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and America’s attempts to stop their program. Chinoy is currently a visiting professor at the Annenberg School of Journalism at the [...]

The New York Philharmonic will be performing in Pyongyang, North Korea on 26 February. The Philharmonic’s conductor and music director Lorin Maazel wrote a response to critics who charged that playing for Kim Jong-il would only lend credibility to a human rights abusing regime:
“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw bricks, should they?” demanded [...]

Last Thursday, while addressing at the American Enterprise Institute, Jay Lefkowitz, President Bush’s Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea, stated that, “North Korea is not serious about disarming in a timely manner,” and “It is increasingly likely that North Korea will have the same nuclear status one year from now that it has [...]

Update: Some timely comments on the problem of Roh and the effect on the U.S.-ROK alliance.
Original post: The Brookings Institution North Korea page has a new paper (h/t Kevin) on U.S.-ROK relations, “Looking Back and Looking Forward: North Korea, Northeast Asia and the ROK-U.S. Alliance,” (full paper-PDF) by Dr. Park Hyeong-jung, a Senior Fellow at [...]

First, a little disclosure: long time readers of this blog, Joshua’s blog (One Free Korea), and the now defunct joint blog Joshua, Richardson and I created in the past (The Korea Liberator) probably remember that the joint project unraveled under a less than amicable circumstance. We had different ideas about how to run the blog [...]

In a previous post I wrote about New Mexico Governor - and Democratic presidential candidate - Bill Richardson’s bizarre attempt to take credit for a “resolution” with North Korea. A sample of his claim:
My years of experience dealing with North Korea and my knowledge of the region allowed me to help facilitate this new resolution [...]

Al Gore, 1996: “… I took the initiative in creating the Internet”
Bill Richardson, 2007: “[My] North Korean Breakthrough”*
Yesterday when I saw the title, * “Governor Richardson’s North Korean Breakthrough” at the site “Americans for [Bill] Richardson,” I thought the site owner took some liberties with the title and mixed it with various wire news reports. [...]

Update 3: North Korea has admitted - for the second time - to having an HEU program. It will be interesting to see what the apologists have to say now.
Update 2: In a sad turn of events, David Albright decides that he is unable answer direct questions pertaining to his accusations, and instead will resort [...]