What Kim Jong Un Really Wants

The New Statesman (Dec 2022)

Escaping the Tragicomedy

Is Principled Negotiation between the US and North Korea Possible?

Jeju Forum Journal (Dec 2021)

Something for Something

Next Steps for Biden’s North Korea Policy

APLN (May 2021)

North Korea in 2020

In Search of Health and Power

Asian Survey (Feb 2021)

How To Buy Time on the Korean Peninsula

After Trump’s Theatrics

Foreign Policy (Dec 2020)

How Democracy Won the World’s First Coronavirus Election

New York Times (Apr 2020)

North Korea in 2019

A Year of Strategic Adjustment

Asian Survey (Feb 2020)

What Makes Kim Jong Un Different? 

In North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?, ed. William Overholt

Harvard Kennedy School, 2019

Bridging the Divide

Moon Jae-in’s Korean Peace Initiative

Yonsei Univ Press, 2019

How South Korea Can Save the Nuclear Talks

After Hanoi, Back to Seoul

Foreign Affairs (Mar 2019)

Kim Jong Un Has a Dream

The US Should Help Him Realize It

New York Times (Sep 2018)

Pompeo’s Visit Suggests Trump-Kim Summit Is On Track

Here’s Why Kim Wants to Talk

Washington Post (Apr 2018)

Inter-Korean Talks Are More Than Just a Good Thing 

Foreign Affairs (Jan 2018)

Take Preventive War With North Korea Off the Table

The Risks of Trump’s Tough Talk

Foreign Affairs (Aug 2017)

Trump and North Korea

Art of the Deal

Foreign Affairs (Mar-Apr 2017)

Instead of Threatening North Korea

Trump Should Try This

Washington Post (Apr 2017)

How to Make a Deal with North Korea

New York Times (Mar 2017)

Candlelight Revolutionaries

A Win for South Korea’s Revolution

Dissent (Spring 2017)

The Kishi Effect

A Political Genealogy of Japan-ROK Relations

Asian Perspective (Jul-Sep 2015)

Lessons from North Korea

How to Avoid a Nuclear Iran

Foreign Affairs (Apr 2015)

Strong, Prosperous or Great? North Korean Security and Foreign Policy

With Chung-in Moon

In The Oxford Handbook of International Relations

Oxford University Press, 2014

Pyongyang Perseveres

Why Washington Should Learn to Work With North Korea

Foreign Affairs (Jul-Aug 2013)

The Disappointments of Disengagement 

Assessing Obama’s North Korea Policy

Asian Perspective (Apr-Jun 2013)

Reform Sprouts in North Korea?

Yale Global Online (Jul 2012)