Joshua Stanton is a Washington, D.C.-based attorney and blogger known for his expertise on North Korea policy, particularly sanctions and human rights issues. He runs the blog One Free Korea, which focuses on North Korean affairs. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2013 and 2016, writing extensively about North Korean terrorism, sanctions policy, and human rights abuses.
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Knights of Camelot are on a quest for the Holy Grail, but find their way barred by a group of ornery French knights – never mind what they are doing in England – who have walled themselves inside an impregnable castle. After a pathetic attempt to breach the…
Six days after North Korea’s fourth nuclear test, and just hours before President Obama would address the Congress for his final State of the Union speech, the House of Representatives passed the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act (NKSEA) by a vote of 418-2. (Full disclosure: I worked with…
Almost from its very beginnings, the Obama Administration has seemed at a loss about how to respond to North Korea. In his inauguration speech, President Obama told "those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent" that he would "extend a hand if you are willing…
Americans are rightfully concerned about ISIS’s rampage across the Middle East. But one thing that even ISIS has not yet accomplished is what the president, the director of the FBI, and the director of the NSA all insist Kim Jong-un's hackers did last year -- suppress the release of a major motion…
The evils of North Korea are well-chronicled: from its political prison camps to the needless and preventable starvation deaths of between 450,000 and 2 million people. That latter estimate comes from an exhaustive report by a U.N. Commission of Inquiry, which found the North Korean…
Even after a year of North Korean nuclear and missile tests, this year's State Department “Country Reports on Terrorism” makes the risible claim that North Korea is "not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since the bombing of a Korean Airlines flight in 1987." It would appear that State's…