north korea

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: Bribing the Palestinians won't work

Cal Thomas: Bribing the Palestinians won't make them recognize Israel's right to exist.

• Commentary

Edelman: No such thing as a normal news week with Trump at the helm

A few past presidents were known for bearing grudges. But all of these men stoutly, steadfastly, defended America and Americans. That can't be said for Trump.

• Commentary

Culleton: Seeking the vision of FDR, the courage of Eisenhower

Trump and his supporters have one huge advantage over their opponents. They are not bound by any moral code.

• Commentary

Zirpoli: Policy by tweets and love letters

Kim is not the only one who has Trump’s trust. When Putin tells Trump that he didn’t try to interfere with our 2016 elections, Trump believes him.

• Opinion

Goldberg: Two cheers for Trump's summit fiasco

The president defied political temptation and did the right thing in North Korea, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Features

MICA professor, Korean-American artist Mina Cheon brings art installation of 100,000 choco pies to Busan Biennale

Maryland Institute College of Art professor and Korean-American artist Mina Cheon began displaying her installation "Eat Choco-Pie Together," made up of 100,000 choco pies, at the Busan Biennale in South Korea Saturday.

By Brittany Britto

Sep 10, 2018

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: Trump's art of the no-deal

Robert Reich: For a supposed "deal maker," Donald Trump hasn't made any that have stuck thus far.

• Opinion

Advantage Kim

Historic meeting in Singapore produces uncertain results, but that it happened at all is a big boost for North Korea's dictator.

• Opinion

Trump primed to blame Trudeau if North Korea nuclear talks fail

Why lash out at Justin Trudeau? Trump and his circle need a 'fall guy' for Singapore.

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: Trump's megalomania is driving US foreign policy

Foreign policy in the Trump administration isn't about U.S. interests, says Robert Reich, it's about Mr. Trump's interests.

• Opinion

Witcover: Trump's change of heart on North Korea summit

 In the old language of the 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis, President Donald Trump "has just blinked" regarding the planned meeting with North Korea dicatator Kim Jong Un. In President John F. Kennedy's day, a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union was avoided. This time, who knows?

• Maryland

Crisp: Trump should cancel meeting with Kim Jong Un

The notion of a Nobel Peace Prize for President Donald Trump is a peculiar one, but only the most petty, hyperpartisan soul could wish for him to fail at the

• Opinion

Trump and Kim should hold their summit at Baltimore's HonFest, here's why

President Trump will have his much-anticipated meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12. And that’s a pity. Nuclear Armageddon would be more easily avoided if theymet a few days earlier at Hamden’s annual HonFest, which has, at its root what the two men have in common: hair.

• Maryland

Maryland Korean-Americans 'cautiously optimistic' as historic summit looms

As President Donald Trump prepares to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, Koreans and Korean-Americans in Maryland are watching intently.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

May 9, 2018

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: Learning from North Korea's history

Given North Korea's trail of broken promises, it is highly unlikely any new pledge will be honored, says Cal Thomas.

• Opinion

Trump's approach to Kim Jong-un follows 'negotiation playbook'

Mr. Trump has his critics; nowhere has this been more apparent than in the evaluation of his efforts to resolve the inherited threat posed by North Korea. As a former government negotiator, however, I find myself viewing his actions from a perspective not often considered.

• Opinion

Goldberg: North Korean regime can't be swayed through diplomacy

If the president does get in a room with Kim Jong Un, I have no doubt he'll emerge with something he can call a victory. I also have no doubt that it will be very similar to previous American diplomatic victories.

• Opinion

North Korea: Another Cuban missile crisis?

Arrival of John Bolton and the triumph of the hawks in the Trump White House makes North Korea nuclear talks worrisome.

• Commentary

Vigliotti: Bolton will add to America’s moral imperative

In a world that includes Chinese military buildup, Soviet-style regression in Russia, the propensity for a war by Turkey against Greece and the claim that North Korea might want to denuclearize, robust American leadership is exactly what is needed.

• Opinion

Just when you thought Trump's foreign policy couldn't get more chaotic, enter John Bolton

John Bolton will be a destabilizing force as President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser.

By Jules Witcover

Mar 26, 2018

• Opinion

Goldberg: North Korea's dark history should frame any negotiations

Negotiating with North Korea may be the right thing to do, but our negotiators should understand the monstrosity they're dealing with.

• North Korea

Cal Thomas: Only fools believe North Korea

Only a fool would believe North Korea is willing to suspend its nuclear program in exchange for security, says Cal Thomas.

• Photos

Former AP photographer Max Desfor dies at 104

Former Associated Press photographer Max Desfor, whose photo of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across a damaged bridge in 1950 helped win him a Pulitzer Prize, died Monday. He was 104.

• Opinion

Politicians use Olympics to cloud human rights abuses

There is a battle taking place at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and it is not about sports. The United States and North Korea are locked in a struggle over who controls the narrative on human rights abuses in the reclusive regime.

• Commentary

Vigliotti: Ignore the sights — socialism is still horrific

A large number of young Americans (and many aged hippies) are pushing for “democratic socialism” under the old lights of those such as Bernie Sanders, under romantic but fantasy notions of either collective or government-mandated equality. Socialism/communism simply does not work.

• Olympics

Five storylines for the 2018 Winter Olympics

From nuclear politics to American skiing stars to Russian doping, here are the key stories when the 2018 Winter Olympics begin Friday.

By Childs Walker

Feb 2, 2018

• Opinion

Rewind the Doomsday Clock with diplomacy

It's getting closer to midnight and the horrific possibility of nuclear war. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just moved the Doomsday Clock forward to two minutes near the dreaded witching hour.

• Opinion

Hawaii was panicked by a false missile alert. Could that happen in Maryland?

Hawaii wasn't prepared for a missile warning; Maryland isn't either.

• Opinion

Trump's America-last foreign policy

President Donald Trump's juvenile, bullying, jingoistic foreign policy is quickly making America irrelevant in international affairs.

• Opinion

Lighting a candle for North Korea talks

Tillerson has the right idea about North Korea - let's engage them in talks and see what might develop.

• Opinion

Trump refutes story on firing Rex Tillerson as fake news

 President Trump resumed his war on the American press Friday by tweeting that a widely circulated report that he was planning to fire his secretary of state was "fake news."

• Maryland

Letter: The decertification that will haunt us

Mark Twain is reputed to have stated that history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I very much fear that is the case today. Back in 1994, the

• Opinion

Nobel Peace Prize: How the U.S. can maintain its moral authority in a world opposed to nuclear weapons

Trump and Kim ramp up their war of words at the world's peril

• Opinion

North Korea: Time for Plan B

It's time the United States recognize North Korea as a nuclear power.

• Opinion

Trump at the UN: The president's finest speech

Donald Trump gave the finest, most forceful speech of his presidency at the UN, Cal Thomas writes.

• Opinion

There is a solution to the North Korean crisis

The U.S. must shed its century old habit of confusing communism and nationalism. I

• Maryland

Zirpoli: Nuclear stalemate with North Korea will keep the peace

Zirpoli: Nuclear stalemate with North Korea will keep the peace

• Maryland

Bombast aside, Trump gave conventional UN speech

Speaking before the United Nations, President Donald Trump gave a conventional speech artfully disguised as a nationalist provocation.

• Opinion

Who's the madman, Kim or Trump?

President Donald Trump just threatened North Korea with genocide.

• Opinion

Trump at the UN

Donald Trump needs the UN to deal with issues like North Korea. But he's made his own task much harder.

• Opinion

North Korea won't be swayed by mere bluster

With North Korea, Trump's threats on trade and military 'fire' aren't accomplishing much.

• Opinion

Goldberg: How do you solve a problem like North Korea?

The U.S. should declare that it considers North Korea's misdeeds to really be China's misdeeds, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Opinion

With Harvey, North Korea bearing down, governing by tweet isn't going to cut it

Real crises demand real governing, but Trump has left key jobs unfilled at State Dept, other agencies

• Opinion

Shifting the narrative on North Korea

President Trump's intimidation skills are undeniable but off-the-cuff bombast and bluster in a matter of war and peace with North Korea only risk escalation.

• Opinion

Unlike Sun, Guam trusts in President Trump

In North Korea dispute, Trump has acted in best interests of U.S. including Guam.

• Opinion

Trump sinks to Kim's level

U.S. presidents aren't supposed to go full-blown crazy when talking about potential nuclear threats.

• Opinion

North Korea doesn't need an ICBM to attack U.S.

North Korea can launch a nuclear attack on U.S. without an intercontinental ballistic missile.

• Opinion

New sanctions on North Korea: Only choice available

U.N. sanctions are a welcome move as a necessary step to address North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

• Opinion

Containing North Korea with sticks and carrots

U.S. can curb North Korea threat only with an all-of-the-above strategy.

• Maryland

Zirpoli: Our complicated challenge with North Korea

The hot spot in the world right now is North Korea who, in the face of international condemnation and sanctions, continues their development and testing of