38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea

Saturday January 28th 2017

38 North offers informed analysis of events in and around the DPRK.

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Can the US Prevent North Korea from Testing an ICBM?

According to the New York Times, Kim Jong Un proclaimed to the North Korean people, during his annual New Year’s address, that the military is in the “final stages in preparations to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic rocket.” A North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, would be capable of threatening the continental United States. In response, President Donald Trump tweeted: “North Korea just stated that it is in [Read More]

Commentary

Encouraging Japan to Go »

During his Presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that a nuclear-armed Japan might not be a “bad thing” for the United States “because of the threat of North Korea.” In [Read More]

What to Do About a North »

During his annual New Year’s address, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that the country is in the final stages of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile. 38 [Read More]

Satellite Imagery

North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear »

A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Jack Liu and Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. New commercial satellite imagery indicates that operations at the 5 MWe [Read More]

Foreign Affairs

Do You Want Fries »

This is the second installment of a four-part series on what a Trump presidency could [Read More]

Recycling the »

On November 30, UN Security Council members gathered for a familiar exercise: to pass a [Read More]

Did The Donald »

This is the first of a four-part series on what a Trump presidency could mean for US [Read More]

James Church

Inspector O and the Twitter Account »

Inspector O was the glummest I’d ever seen him. He was sitting at a table in a dark corner of the bar, shoulders slack, head bowed, eyes closed. At first it appeared he might be praying. “What’s wrong, Inspector?” I put a cheery note into my voice. “It’s the [Read More]

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