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Do Americans and South Koreans expect the United States to defend South Korea against a North Korean invasion? My original survey data finds nearly a quarter of Americans believe the US would do nothing, while South Koreans are more confident that the...

From March 23 to 25, US officials facilitated indirect negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in an attempt to cement a short-term ceasefire in a war that crossed its four-year mark in February. The latest round of shuttle diplomacy...

Less than a month after North Korean state media conveyed Kim Jong Un’s ambitious 20×10 regional development plan, residents of Yonthan, North Hwanghae province—one of the first construction sites—were visited by then-Premier Kim Tok Hun to survey initial...

Commercial satellite imagery from March 22 indicates that several small structures have appeared on the North Korean side of the New Yalu River Bridge, south of the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge. In spring 2020, an area close to the bridge was cleared...

On March 8, North Korean (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or DPRK) media reported that Kim Jong Un, during undated visits to major shipyards, “learned about the building of a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine, which is being pushed...