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Strategy

• Strategic Implications of North Korea’s Expanding Naval Ambitions | RealClearDefense
• North Korea's Bold Turn Toward Russia Poses Test for Trump's Second Term | RAND
• Dealing with North Korea as It Deepens Military Cooperation with Russia | RAND
• North Korea’s Nuclear-Cognitive Warfare Strategy | RealClearDefense
• What is North Korea Learning from the Ukraine War? | The Capital Cable #111 | CSIS Events
• North Korea - A Framework Explaing North Korea's Nuclear Decision s and Strategies (2023)
• North Korea - Bloody Nose Option (2017)
• North Korea - China' North Korea Nuclear Policy
• North Korea - South Korea Deterence (2024)
• United States and North Korea - The United States and North Korea - New Threats, New Challenges (2024)
• North Korea - North Korea’s Strategic Choices amid Shifting Geopolitics (2024)
• North Korea - Confronting the Nuclear Challenge - North Korea's Ambitions (2024)
• North_Korea_-_Denuclearizing_North_Korea__2023
• North Korea - The Korean Linchpin
• North Korea - North Korea Learns In Ukraine Combat (WSJ 2025)
• United States and North Korea - The United States and North Korea - New Threats, New Challenges (2024).
• All - U.S.-China Great-Power Politics and Strategic Ambiguities in Indo-Pacific Security (2023)
• North Korea’s Black Knights and Dark Network: Towards the Disruption and Typology of DPRK Sanctions Evasion Networks | RAND
• China’s North Korea Problem | Foreign Affairs
• North Korea Seems Likely to Use Nuclear Weapons First: America Needs to Think It Through - National Security Journal
• Talking to Kim Jong Un Could Help Freeze His Nuclear Ambitions – The Cipher Brief 
• What Is North Korea’s Strategy? | Hudson Institute    

Grand Strategy

• North Korean Desperation: Its Two Korea Theory | RAND
• North Korea - The Gathering Storm - A Confluence of North Korea’s Looming (2024
• North Korea - Going Tactical - North Korea and Two-State Theory in War (2024)
• China and North Korea - Grappling with Great-Power Competition - China Bandwagons with North Korea (2024)
• Putin and Kim Hate the West—and Mistrust Beijing | RAND
• Why South Korean Reconciliation with North Korea Isn’t an Option - The National Interest   
• The China-Russia-North Korea Alliance That Needs No Name | RealClearDefense    
• Don’t Overestimate the Autocratic Alliance | Foreign Affairs         
• Reality check: North Korea won’t give up its nukes | Responsible Statecraft