by Marcus Noland | May 9th, 2011 | 07:51 am
The recent controversies over Executive Order 13570 have refocused attention on the web of regulations that constrain economic exchange between the United States and North Korea. Beyond the issues associated with direct bilateral trade, US economic diplomacy toward North Korea is conditioned on a variety of laws which use restrictions on economic relations as an [...]
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by Stephan Haggard | April 11th, 2011 | 10:54 am
If Senate and House hearings last month are any indication looks like North Korea policy could be headed toward another period of politicization similar to that which occurred during the Clinton administration following the mid-term elections of 1994. And it’s not just talk: on April 1, 2011 House International Relations committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and 8 co-sponsors [...]
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Tags: Cheonan, Congress, terrorism, United States, Yeonpyeong Island
