Kim Jong-un

From "fire and fury" to summits and appeasement.

More than event planning?

President Trump gets a laugh out of his relationship with the world's worst mass murderer.

The president vows to keep sanctions in place 'until denuclearization occurs.'

Message to Moon.

If all this blustering is a preface of a policy reversal, it can’t come sooner.

The unhappy track record of happy talk.

The president’s approach to international policy is venturing outside the very mainstream of American politics.

North Korea was never going to “denuclearize.”

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Donald Trump is not a dictator. But he sure is jealous of the loyalty that his dictator friends command.

With the point of a finger, we have our answer.

Chosun Ilbo had been optimistic about progress toward denuclearization in the days leading up to the Singapore summit.

Donald Trump is playing a dangerous game with North Korea.

Did John Bolton sign off on this?

Speaker Ryan: 'We must continue to apply maximum economic pressure.'

Dennis Rodman, Donald Trump, and Kim Jong-un.

The big takeaways from the joint Trump-Kim communique.

While Trump makes nice, Fred and Cindy Warmbier sue North Korea for their son's wrongful death

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

The outcome of the Kim-Trump summit was never in doubt.

Whatever else comes of Tuesday’s historic talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean despot Kim Jong-un, they’ve already given the world at least one thing: a victory lap from Dennis Rodman.

The “friend” of Kim Jong-un is headed his way—and being used—again.

Hosted by Jonathan V. Last

How do people make sense of confusing events in the present? By casting about for precedents—metaphors—from the past.

When are we going to start doing very, very well?

Mike Pence and John Bolton are on the bench.

Hosted by Jim Swift.

Why should the U.S. trust Kim ever again?

"The Singapore summit . . . will not take place."

But there's little reason to think the president doesn't want to go to Singapore on June 12.

Testing, testing.

But is it just sound and fury from Kim?

And Gina Haspel picks up another Democratic vote.

The president may be prematurely spiking the football.

Trump's CIA pick to face a tough Senate hearing.

Far be it from me to say whether Donald Trump’s diplomacy on the Korean peninsula entitles him to join Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama among our recent Nobel Peace Prize laureates. But Condoleezza Rice is surely correct to suggest that the Trump administration—including ex-secretary of…

Whatever he may say, Kim Jong-un wants the Americans gone.

Indeed he did.

Pompeo gets the Senate nod, but the headaches over confirmations may only get worse.

It may be all up to Trump.

The retired general was passed over for Trump's national security adviser twice.

There's no sign Kim has agreed to "denuclearize" yet.

There remains a divide within the Trump administration about the goals and aims of the planned tariffs on Chinese imports. In the new issue of the magazine, I explore this tension between free-traders and protectionists within the White House, but I start by looking at the public comments, required…

Kellyanne Conway and Tom Cotton go to bat for the CIA director.

Chris Stewart gave a simple explanation for introducing a congressional resolution on missing American David Sneddon: "As a parent, it seemed the right thing to do." The Utah congressman's own son was the one who told him that his friend had mysteriously vanished—the first U.S. citizen to disappear…

Chris Stewart gave a simple explanation for introducing a congressional resolution on missing American David Sneddon: “As a parent, it seemed the right thing to do." The Utah congressman's own son was the one who told him that his friend had mysteriously vanished—the first U.S. citizen to disappear…

So there is a reason for countries to host North Korean embassies after all. Sure, rather than the spade work of actual diplomacy, North Korea's "diplomats" use their embassies to export counterfeit cash, go on illegal shopping sprees for their leader, and issue terrifying threats against…

During a speech in Atlanta on Wednesday, Donald Trump said Kim Jong-un "acts up," but he would be willing to speak with the leader.

North Korea will convene a Workers' Party Congress in Pyongyang on Friday for the first time since Jimmy Carter was president. Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un's grandfather, convened the first six such party congresses, where a party-based juche doctrine of national self-reliance was put forward as the…

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…

And then there were three. The North Korean government announced on Friday that it has detained another American tourist, bringing the tally of western hostages festering in Pyongyang to two Americans and one Canadian.

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…

ABC News reports that the United States suspended and then resumed joint military exercises with South Korea this week after North Korea fired artillery shells across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Assistant Secretary of Defense David Shear gave reporters the news Friday, August 21, at a Pentagon…

Predicting the collapse of North Korea is a bit like predicting the collapse of Donald Trump’s lead in the polls: it never seems to happen. Yet, on several occasions in recent days, South Korean president Park Geun-hye has intimated that North Korea’s horrific regime may be more unstable than we…

There’s ominous (is there any other kind?) news from North Korea. South Korean intelligence has reported that Kim Jong-un has executed some fifteen of his top officials, including the vice minister of forestry. Granted, as satraps of the world’s cruelest regime, it’s hard to gin up much sympathy…

The recent vicious attack on U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert (he was stabbed in the face in Seoul) is, in fact, not the first attack on an American ambassador in that country. The earlier attackers on Ambassador Donald Gregg’s residence in 1989, however, were radical students with…

Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the release of a United Nations’s Commission on Inquiry’s report on human rights in North Korea. The U.N. report laid out, in devastating detail, what we’ve known for all too long: Kim Jong-un’s dictatorship is the Westboro Baptist Church of regimes –…

If Pyongyang has an equivalent to the late Richard Helms, the Nixon era director of central intelligence who kept the secrets on Vietnam and Iran, that would be Kim Yong-chol, a four-star general and Kim Jong-un confidante. Kim, a former bodyguard of late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, is now…

The North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, will visit Moscow in May. 

It’s difficult to tell whether the North Korean regime has anything to with the hack attack on Sony Pictures, or the subsequent terrorist threats against movie theaters planning to screen The Interview. The forthcoming Sony film centers around an assassination plot against North Korean dictator Kim…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s self-proclaimed “friend for life” Dennis Rodman announced January 4 that he had assembled the promised team of former NBA players to take to Pyongyang. These reportedly include former NBA All-Stars Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson, and Vin Baker. Craig Hodges, Doug…

The spectacle of North Korea’s former number two, Jang Song-thaek, being stripped of all his titles at a December 8 party meeting in Pyongyang and then arrested by uniformed guards left no doubt about his fall from grace. Jang’s former protégé, Premier Pak Pong-ju, was in tears as he denounced his…

Now that the hoopla has begun to die down over Kim Jong-un’s execution of his uncle—reportedly Mafia-style with machine guns—the Young General is anticipating his athletes shooting a few hoops under the expert tutoring of Dennis Rodman. Kim Jong-un’s best American buddy has just arrived back in…

Woody Allen once famously said "90 percent of life is just showing up." In the Kim family's North Korea showing up—or suddenly not—can be a true matter of life or death.

Secretary of State John Kerry told ABC News in an interview that North Korea "potentially" having a nuclear weapon would be "even more unacceptable." North Korea first tested its nuclear weapons capabilities in 2006 and had a more successful test in 2009. The country's most recent nuclear test was…

Even after 65 years of hideous barbarity, the murderousness of the Kim regime still holds the capacity to shock. Korea-watchers are baffled at the news that Kim Jong-un had his uncle and former mentor, Jang Song-thaek, summarily executed for “treason” this week. (For analysis of the events leading…

It's no secret that the value of an honorary degree—not to mention the value of an actual degree—has declined in recent years. Recently minted “Doctors” include Ben Affleck (Brown University), Jon Bon Jovi (Monmouth University), and Morgan Freeman (Boston University). Tufts University, meanwhile,…

Steam venting from the complex that houses the Soviet-era reactor in Yongbyon, spotted in satellite imagery taken at the end of August and released last month, tells us that the rogue regime of Kim Jong-un is about to go back into the business of producing plutonium. Weapons specialists and…

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THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with editorial assistant Ethan Epstein on North Korea's belligerence. Hosted by Michael Graham.

At the end of last month, Dennis Rodman, the eclectic former basketball star, hung out with Kim Jong-un, the leader of the rogue North Korean state. "I love him," Rodman would say of his new friend. "The guy is awesome. He was so honest."

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The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics. How many other non-monarchical regimes have managed to retain power through immediate succession for three generations?

Eyes have been focused on the succession underway in North Korea, where Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il’s pudgy third son, appears to be being groomed for power.