Examining why North Korea’s recent behavior has left many global pundits scratching their heads in confusion.

Exploring the political and economic impacts of recent elections in South Korea.

In what is being called a military purge to pave the way for his personal ascension, North Korea's Kim Jong-un has sacked a top general under the pretext of illness to put his stamp on the highest echelons of military leadership.

Last week’s revelation of a highly refined capacity for uranium enrichment and the subsequent shelling of South Korean military positions on Yeonpyeong Island are both indications that Pyongyang is willing to push this crisis to the extremities.

A meeting of North Korea’s ruling party has all but confirmed what many analysts have known for a while: that 27 year-old Kim Jong-un is being groomed to succeed Kim Jong-il.

With the Chinese government jumping in to protect North Korea from international fallout over the sinking of the Cheonan, it should come as no real surprise that the two allies have united in their disdain for planned US-South Korean military exercises.

Now that DPRK involvement in the sinking of the Cheonan is beyond the shadow of a doubt, the crisis has entered a new phase in which one misstep can trigger military conflict.

Buried within North Korea’s recent intransigence is evidence of a coming paradigm shift in Sino-North Korean relations.

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