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​U.S. Army soldiers take part in a U.S.-South Korea joint river-crossing exercise.
What We're Watching

US to reduce military cooperation with South Korea, Iranians dig in for a battle of attrition, Campaign season kicks off in Brazil

The decision deals a blow to a decades-old alliance: South Korea relies heavily on US deterrence against its nuclear-armed northern neighbor and hosts 28,500 American troops.

​Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025.
by ian bremmer

How the world learned to stop worrying and love North Korea’s bombs

The “hermit kingdom” and its Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un are emerging from the G-Zero world in their strongest geostrategic position in decades.

The teen girl tapped to rule North Korea next
GZERO World Clips

The teen girl tapped to rule North Korea next

Kim Jong Un is preparing his daughter Kim Ju Ae, reportedly around 12 years old, as a potential successor, something that would break every precedent in the Kim dynasty's 80-year history.

North Korea: The cult that outlasted Stalin and Mao
GZERO World Clips

North Korea: The cult that outlasted Stalin and Mao

Wall Street Journal Beijing bureau chief Jonathan Cheng argues that North Korea is best understood not as a nation state but as a religious society, built on the most durable personality cult in modern history.

Kim Jong Un's winning nuclear bet
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Kim Jong Un's winning nuclear bet

The Kim dynasty has outlasted every threat for 80 years. Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Cheng explains how, and why the Iran war just made Kim Jong Un seem untouchable.

North Korea's nuclear bet paid off
Ian Explains

North Korea's nuclear bet paid off

The Iran war just proved Kim Jong Un right. His grandfather wanted the bomb, his father built it, and now the world has stopped pretending it can take it away. Ian Bremmer explains how North Korea got here, and what comes next.

​US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on October 26, 2025.
Analysis

Trump’s Asian trade blitz sets up sitdown with Xi

The US president signed a raft of trade deals on Sunday at the ASEAN summit in Malaysia, but the main event of his Asia trip will be his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday.

​North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervises the test of suicide drones with artificial intelligence at an unknown location, in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on March 27, 2025.
GZERO AI

North Korea preps new kamikaze drones

Hermit Kingdom leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly supervised AI-powered kamikaze drone tests. He told KCNA, the state news agency, that developing unmanned aircraft and AI should be a top priority to modernize North Korea’s armed forces.

Kim Jong Un shows off North Korea’s first nuclear-powered sub
Russia/Ukraine

Kim Jong Un shows off North Korea’s first nuclear-powered sub

Cigarette in hand, and with the toothiest of grins, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un posed for photographs at a shipyard next to the makings of a “nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine.” The vessel appears to be a 6,000-ton-class or 7,000-ton-class one, with a payload of 10 missiles, in line with plans unveiled at the Hermit Kingdom’s 2021 party congress.

​Tents are pitched on a sidewalk in Skid Row, Los Angeles, California, Dec. 9, 2024.
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