Commentary and Analysis

The United States is perceived as a greater threat around the world, is unable to convince its own public of what it has deemed a threat (China) and will struggle to enlist the help of allies.

If the president wants to wreck at least ten years of solid South Korean public support for the US-Korea alliance, he is already headed down the right path.

Global economics expert Phil Levy joins this week's Deep Dish podcast to explain what's going on between the US and China, and how lessons from the US shutdown might help explain what will happen next.

People in both Japan and South Korea agree on the primary issues that need to be resolved in order to improve the relationship.

New statements by a North Korean diplomat may indicate that the upcoming Singapore summit is in peril of failing.

Recent polling on South Korea's Moon Jae-in may be less encouraging than it seems.

Can Olympic diplomacy really defuse the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula?

The immediate threat of war has passed but Asian allies have little to celebrate.

With tensions high on the Korean Peninsula some fear a misstep or miscalculation by either the United States or North Korea could lead to armed conflict – potentially one that could even go nuclear.

The dispute between Seoul and Tokyo over comfort women has wide-ranging ramifications.