North Korea has turned over thousands of pages of documentation for its plutonium-based nuclear program:
North Korea handed over more than 18,000 pages of nuclear weapons documents to a U.S. diplomat visiting Pyongyang on Thursday that will help verify its plutonium holdings, senior U.S. officials said.
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“We will see if these documents will play a […]

Rather than belligerent insults using archaic English following the Bush administration’s presentation of rather convincing evidence that North Korea was proliferating nuclear technology to Syria, North Korea is offering something to “complement” the declaration of nuclear programs called for in the 13 February 2007 deal:
North Korea has tentatively agreed to give the United […]

During a meeting in P’yŏngyang on 04 October 2002, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minster Kang Seok-Ju admitted to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly that North Korea had a uranium enrichment program. That was the public beginning of the end of the 1994 Agreed Framework.
Now the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has revealed […]

A joint statement (DOC) was issued at the conclusion of the fourth round of Six-Party Talks in September, 2005 that “reaffirmed that the goal of the Six-Party Talks is the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner.” It was hailed, by most, as a great breakthrough in coaxing North Korea to […]

South Korea’s new president, Lee Myung-bak (이명박), though not explicitly stating it, appears to be returning to the original principles of the Sunshine Policy. Lee has vowed to remain calm despite North Korea’s recent actions and increased rhetoric, and continues to call for constructive engagement in a manner that reminds me of former ROK […]

After a few weeks of false tensions manufactured by North Korea (see news links below), some sort of addition to existing agreements may be in the works:
The U.S. and North Korea on Tuesday reached tentative agreement on the declaration of the North’s nuclear programs. . . Chief U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill. . […]

Another rumor in the saga, per the Asahi Shimbun:
An Israeli airstrike against Syria last September targeted a nuclear-related facility that was under construction with technical assistance from North Korea, according to Israel’s prime minister.
Japanese government sources said over the weekend that the Israeli leader, Ehud Olmert, briefed Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda about the […]

Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and U.S. lead in the Six-Party Talks has been awarded the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit Gwanghwa Medal from South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) (h/t P). I have to admit that when I first read this news, I thought […]

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 […]

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 […]