Uri Friedman
He was previously the deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy.
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Christinne Muschi / Reuters The World Bargain on Asylum Is Unraveling
The United States isn’t the only country struggling to deal with a surge in people seeking refuge.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Mystery at the Heart of North Korea Talks
The parties have yet to agree on what exactly should be "denuclearized." But one South Korean official has a plan to close the gap.
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Reuters / KCNA Here’s What Trump Actually Achieved With North Korea
It wasn’t what he said. But it was much more than nothing.
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White House / The Atlantic About That Movie Trailer Donald Trump Gave Kim Jong Un
It was a strange clip depicting a brighter future for North Korea in the event of a nuclear deal. The problem is it’s not clear the North Koreans want that future.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump Actually Seems to Believe He Denuclearized North Korea
The president claims the nuclear threat is gone, but that's not what he achieved in Singapore.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Got Nearly Nothing From Kim Jong Un
Maybe this is the beginning of something big. But it started off small.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters A Handshake Decades in the Making
Trump’s much-hyped meeting with Kim Jong Un upended the old ways of negotiating with the North Koreans.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters This Is Bigger Than a Meeting With Kim Jong Un
Donald Trump is navigating a new nuclear era—and fashioning a new approach.
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Bill Ferguson / Wikimedia / The Atlantic The ‘God Damn’ Tree That Nearly Brought America and North Korea to War
In 1976, two American soldiers were axed to death over a poplar tree. What came next threatened to change the course of history.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The French President Has Described America Like a Rogue State
"We have to try to convince the United States to remain in the community of nations.”
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Reuters / KCNA The Threat to Kim Jong Un Within North Korea
Generations of North Korean leaders have billed the nuclear program as the key to their country’s security and prosperity. You can’t contemplate giving that up without alienating a whole lot of people.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump and Kim Will Talk After All—But About What?
The on-again, off-again meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un is apparently happening. But there's little evidence that North Korea actually wants to denuclearize.
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Mike Segar / Reuters So Is the North Korea Summit Back On, or What?
If Trump salvages a summit that looked dead only a week ago, it will be because he has overturned the traditional diplomatic process with North Korea.
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Reuters / Blue House How South Korea Pulled Trump and Kim Back From the Brink
Will Moon Jae In achieve a breakthrough—or will his peace offensive blow up in his face?
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Reuters / KCNA An Exasperated White House Official Laments North Korea’s ‘Trail of Broken Promises’
Trump’s team was audibly frustrated in a call with reporters. "We simply couldn’t get them to pick up the phone."
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Joe Penney / Reuters The Word That Derailed the Trump-Kim Summit
The Americans and the North Koreans were all set for a historic meeting. Then they started talking about Libya.
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Lee Jin-man / AP Donald Trump’s Strange Letter to Kim Jong Un
The president sent a terse note to North Korea’s leader, citing “the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement.”
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Sheng Li / Reuters Former South Korean National-Security Adviser: The U.S. May Have to Withdraw Some Troops
Breaking with his fellow conservatives, Chun Yung Woo says "there will be no solution" to the North Korean nuclear crisis without willingness to compromise on the U.S. alliance.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Trump-Kim Summit Will Happen Soon or Later or Never
South Korea’s president comes to Washington to prop up diplomacy with North Korea.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters How a Reporter Sees the Korea Crisis
An Atlantic journalist opens up his notebook
