The author is continuing his series of articles to improve our understanding of the situation on the Korean Peninsula: • How North Korea and the West view each other and how much they both distrust and misunderstand each other; •…

The author is continuing his series of articles to improve our understanding of the situation on the Korean Peninsula: • How North Korea and the West view each other and how much they both distrust and misunderstand each other; •…

The author is beginning an important series of articles that give a better understanding of the situation on the Korean peninsula:  • How North Korea and the West view each other and how much they both distrust and misunderstand each…

A new round of sanctions has been imposed on North Korea, and an answer has been found to the question, “What more can they ban?” The sanctions affect North Korean diplomats, who must henceforth be subject to enhanced “vigilance over…

Something momentous happened with North Korea’s space program on December 12, 2012: An Unha-3 (“Milky Way-3”) rocket successfully launched a Kwanmenson-3 (“Bright Star-3”) artificial earth satellite into orbit using a modified three-stage Taepodong-2 ballistic missile as the launch vehicle. A…

Some conclusions. I make no claim to cover China’s problems completely in this article. Nevertheless, the issues I discuss allow us to draw some conclusions and better understand China’s prospects for the near future. China’s main problem can be described…

Problems of political stability § 1.  China’s chief domestic political stability problem is its ethnic heterogeneity. Unlike the European Union, however, China has a core population — the Han Chinese. This buttresses China’s national identity. What are China’s leaders doing…

So North Korea has launched its rocket, and it was neither a bluff nor an action it had previously offered to cancel in exchange for economic assistance or some other benefit for the country. The launch was recorded by an…

Military-strategic issues. China’s military-strategic objectives derive from the many needs of its foreign trade and the foreign policy issues that are related to those activities. What does the relationship between military power, foreign trade and foreign policy look like in…

Foreign policy problems.  China’s main foreign policy problem is that no threat nation wants to reduce it to a pathetic and weak condition. Its threat nations are not evil; they are simply pursuing their own advantages, both economic and political.…

“An island economy.”  With each year that passes, China’s economy comes more and more to resemble that of an “Island state,” i.e., an economic system with a near critical dependence on importing raw materials. Japan and South Korea can be…

East and South-East Asia and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole are moving towards an increasingly evident and dangerous confrontation between the United States on the one hand and China on the other. Both countries aspire to dominance...