If you look at other communist governments, when has policy changed? It's always with new leadership.

Wittingly or otherwise, the US negotiating team has executed an apparent cave-in - embracing precepts crucial to North Korean objectives but inimical to Washington's own.

The biggest constraint is the ... government's fear that economic opening up and reform will unleash social and political changes that will threaten political control.

To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis.

It could be that the traders got a tiny bit of power and that was judged to be way too much.

It's a baby step.

The (world) has now witnessed a new administration in Washington - purportedly cognizant of all the earlier US mistakes - make those mistakes all over again.