Theater, thwarted advisers, and a victory for Kim Jong Un

High defense costs are one of the surest ways to hasten a great power's decline.

Expecting the brutally repressive state to liberalize magically the way Vietnam did is a pipe dream.

Splashy summits and Nobel Prize talk are a sideshow. The real power behind peace on the Korean Peninsula isn’t Donald Trump or even Kim Jong-un. It's South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

Now you see the diplomatic trip to Pyongyang—now you don't!

They're called chaebol. They could expand from South Korea, becoming much more powerful.

No, really: Does anyone know what the agreement Trump just signed in Singapore is supposed to mean?

The president's meeting with Kim Jong Un could go more like Eisenhower with Khrushchev—which wouldn't be good.

As Donald Trump prepares for his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his former ambassadorial nominee has some advice.

As Donald Trump plays chicken with North Korea, it's worth remembering that this is also a business. Some profit; others suffer.

This is probably not the end of North Korea nuclear talks.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.