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Getting Acquainted with North Korea: A Journey of Gradual Discovery

Mar 30, 2010

After the flood devastation of the mid-1990s, I was one of the two Americans the North Koreans requested to help them seek humanitarian assistance to their country. Thus began a long journey of discovery of the DPRK humanitarian space filled with uncertainties and challenges. In delivering aid, I got to know the North’s rural communities and townships for the first time even though I had been visiting the country since 1988. I gained precious insights and perspectives about North Korea not available to occasional or casual visitors.

Tokyo Looks East While Washington Looks Back

Leon V. Sigal

Mar 30, 2010

Foreign Affairs

Washington sometimes forgets that it’s more difficult to move forward when it’s looking back. Preoccupied with base realignment in Japan,…

Inspector O and the O’Reilly Factor

James Church

Mar 30, 2010

James Church

From time to time I meet an old friend, Inspector O of the Ministry of People’s Security, in different locations…

How A.Q. Khan Helped Distort America’s DPRK Policy

Jeffrey Lewis

Mar 29, 2010

Mediabusters, WMD

Washington and Pyongyang may be on the verge of another attempt at negotiation. After a stroke in 2008, Kim Jong Il seems to have spent much of 2009 getting his groove back—launching missiles, testing a nuclear weapon, and separating more plutonium—while Washington looked for new sources of pressure, having cut off North Korea’s access to the international market for everything from yachts to iPods.