Outside the Beltway

With one speech, Kim Jong-Un has demonstrated the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy to have been an utter failure.

New reports indicate that the North Koreans never took any of the steps to reduce their research programs that President Trump claimed they did.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

The costs of irresponsible policy.

The Trump Administration’s strategy in North Korea is an utter failure.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is running to get his old job back.

North Korea appears to be pulling back from any future negotiations over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, leaving the Trump Administration’s Korea policy in shambles.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

John Bolton was not a good National Security Adviser, but the real problem with Trump Administration foreign policy comes from the man at the top.

At least in official government documents, Japan will return to the tradition Asian style of placing the surname before an individuals given name.

Meanwhile, on the Korean Peninsula…..

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.

Is the United States finally ready to give up on the fantasy that North Korea will surrender its nuclear weapons?

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

Not content with taking a wrecking ball to America’s trans-Atlantic alliances, the President is attacking our trans-Pacific allies as well.

The latest is about deportations

Trump and Iran.

This time on Venezuela

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

The Trump Administration continues to misstate what the DPRK agreed to regarding its nuclear program. That’s why talks between the two nations are stalled.

Seventy-five years ago today, American soldiers and our allies undertook an invasion that helped change the world.

A misleading, annoying media trope that needs to go away.