TOPIC

North Korea nuclear crisis

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivers a speech during an opening ceremony of a defence exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea, in November. Photo: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
North Korea

Will North Korean party plenum offer signs of renewed dialogue with US?

Analysts say Kim has used previous plenary meetings to announce diplomatic strategies, including messages aimed at the US and South Korea.

Ukraine war

How Trump’s push to end Ukraine war tips his hand on China, Russia

videocam
North Korea

Could a Trump-Kim summit be on the cards again?

10
Donald Trump

Trump team weighing direct talks with North Korea’s Kim, insiders say

Pyongyang has ignored four years of outreach by Biden and has been emboldened by a much closer relationship with Russia’s Putin.

videocam
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump prepare to shake hands at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone, South Korea, in June 2019. Photo: AP
North Korea

Kim says ‘hostile’ US pushing Korean peninsula to brink of nuclear war

The North Korean leader said his previous experience of talks with Washington only highlighted its ‘aggressive’ policy against Pyongyang.

videocam
US-China relations

How Xi’s warning over Korean peninsula highlights Beijing’s diplomatic headache

A statement by Xi Jinping over the volatile Korean peninsula signals China’s growing concern in the region, observers say.

videocam
28
Advertisement
Advertisement
Ukraine war

North Korea ratifies defence treaty with Russia

Pact seals deepening security cooperation between the nations as North Korea becomes one of most vocal backers of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

videocam
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Photo: Sputnik / Vladimir Smirnov / Pool via Reuters
Hong Kong society

Letters | Hong Kong’s working class deserve world-class medical care

Readers discuss proposed reforms to Hong Kong’s outpatient services, the city’s aspirations to be an education hub, Trump’s MAGA movement and North Korea’s continuing missile tests.

Diplomacy

Opinion | South Korea may find itself stranded as North Korea’s sole adversary

Pyongyang is being emboldened by its defence pact with Moscow while US support for Seoul is expected to be diluted under Trump.

videocam
5
North Korea

My Take | How North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia is changing attitudes in China

The Chinese public who once derided North Korea as a ‘neighbourhood hooligan’ is now hailing its decision to help Russia in the Ukraine war.

videocam
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Pyongyang in June. Photo: Pool via AP
Ukraine war

Opinion | US-China war diplomacy vital as North Korea complicates Ukraine fray

The scale and speed of Pyongyang’s reported troop deployment to Russia strongly suggests premeditation. The US and China must act to prevent escalation.

videocam
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Pyongyang Sunan International Airport in North Korea on June 19. Photo: Kremlin pool photo via AP
North Korea

Trump’s victory is ‘good news’ for North Korea. But will Kim denuclearise?

Trump and Kim met twice in Singapore in 2018 and Hanoi in 2019 but the summits failed to yield a commitment by Pyongyang to denuclearise.

North Korea

How rise of Kim Jong-un’s daughter raises questions on North Korea’s leadership

Kim Jong-un’s daughter is emerging in the public eye, but her future leadership role in North Korea remains a mystery.

videocam
US-China relations

US accuses Russia and China of ‘shamelessly’ shielding North Korea

UN ambassadors trade barbs over North Korea’s test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile last week.

videocam
19
A North Korean Hwasong-19 missile being launched last week. Photo: KCNA via KNS / AFP
North Korea

US nuclear bomber joins drills with S. Korea, Japan after Pyongyang missile test

South Korea’s military said the drills showed the resolve of the ROK and the US to strengthen their deterrence against North Korea.

4
The US deployed a B-1B nuclear bomber in joint drills with South Korean and Japanese fighters following the North’s missile test last week. File photo: AFP
US presidential election 2024

Opinion | North Korea’s missile test days before US election sends powerful message

No isolated act of aggression, the missile test was a calculated show of a strengthened alliance and a preview of mounting challenges.

videocam
North Korea

North Korea says South’s president has raised risk of nuclear war

A white paper from Pyongyang lays the blame for tensions squarely with South Korea’s president.

videocam
Advertisement
Advertisement
North Korea

North Korea says record test was new Hwasong-19 ICBM

North Korea lauded the Hwasong-19 that was test-fired Thursday as ‘the world’s strongest strategic missile’.

videocam
This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test launch of new intercontinental ballistic missile ‘Hwasong-19’ at an undisclosed place in North Korea Thursday. Photo: Korea News Service via AP
North Korea

Amid Ukraine war tensions, Pyongyang’s ICBM test may be sign of things to come

Missile test is Pyongyang’s way of showing its deepening ‘nuclear alliance’ with Russia and a message to the US ahead of the election, analysts say.

videocam
4
North Korea

North Korea’s Kim says longest ICBM test is a warning to enemies

Missile on Thursday recorded a flight time of 87 minutes, longer than the last ICBM test launch in December 2023.

videocam
Ukraine war

China and Russia reaffirm close ties in Andrey Rudenko-Wang Yi talks

Rudenko discusses the war in Ukraine and the Korean peninsula with Chinese officials but authorities offer no details.

videocam
Russian deputy foreign minister Andrey Rudenko and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold talks in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua
China-South Korea relations

Empty ambassador chair highlights complications in China-South Korea relations

While Seoul this month announced its new envoy to Beijing, China has been without an ambassador to South Korea for over 3 months.

videocam
9
Xing Haiming left the position as China’s ambassador to South Korea in July and has not been replaced, sparking discussion about the complexity of the China-South Korea relationship. Photo: YNA/dpa
US presidential election 2024

Opinion | How the next US president can ensure America’s leadership role in Asia

American policy, dominated by strategic competition with China, must be shaped to more closely match Asia’s value to the US.

videocam
12
Ukraine war

Opinion | North Korean intervention in Ukraine is the last thing the world needs

Pyongyang sending troops to fight in Ukraine would signal North Korea’s evolution from an isolated pariah state to a tangible threat to international security.

videocam
13
War and conflict

Opinion | Ukraine and Gaza wars offer a lesson on the merits of nuclear weapons

Nuclear arms on both sides of tensions can prevent escalations into outright war, as has been the case in South Asia.

videocam
The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile at the Plesetsk testing field in Russia on April 20, 2022. The number of nuclear weapons in the world is set to rise in the coming decade after 35 years of decline as global tensions flare, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry/AFP
North Korea

Opinion | What North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is really up to

North Korea’s true aim is not to take military action against the South but rather to create tensions to its own advantage.

videocam
Illustration: Craig Stephens
US presidential election 2024

US election winner might find North Korea ‘most dangerous flashpoint’ with China

Kim Jong-un’s ratcheting up of nuclear tensions may leave China in a no-win situation as he seeks to pile pressure on the next president.

videocam
11
Diplomacy

Opinion | Time for cool-headed Asean diplomacy on the heated Korean peninsula

Given that efforts by the US, China, Russia and Japan have not worked, it may be useful for Asean and Indonesia to step in.

videocam
Advertisement
Advertisement
Help preserve 120 years of quality journalism.
SUPPORT NOW
North Korea nuclear crisis
The latest news, analysis and opinion on North Korea nuclear crisis. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement