News

December 2011

December 21st 2011
Program Director Leon V. Sigal writes "1994 Redux: The rebirth of North Korean leadership" for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
December 6th 2011
Program Director Leon V. Sigal on "Stopping a Nuclear North Korea" for The National Interest

November 2011

November 1st 2011
Program Director Leon V. Sigal writes "Managing an Unmanageable North Korea" for The Huffington Post

August 2011

August 25th 2011
Program Director Leon V. Sigal presents a balanced and detailed timeline of recent conflict between North and South Korea, offering policy recommendations

July 2011

July 5th 2011
Program Director Leon V. Sigal writes on "Preventing a Nuclear North Korea" at The National Interest

February 2011

February 11th 2011
Program Director Leon V. Sigal finds that "WikiLeaks Reveals South Korean Hopes, Not North Korean Realities"

November 2010

November 29th 2010
PBS interviews Program Director Leon Sigal on North Korea

May 2010

May 10th 2010
Program Director Leon Sigal’s work on North Korea spotlighted in Korea Times
May 6th 2010
“Looking for Leverage in All the Wrong Places” by SSRC’s Lee Sigal examines efficacy of N. Korean sanctions

February 2010

February 24th 2010
Program Director Leon Sigal critiques “Magical Thinking on North Korea” in The Boston Globe

August 2009

August 29th 2009
Program director Lee Sigal quoted in Korea Times about likelihood of special envoy Stephen Bosworth’s visit to Pyongyang in September.
August 7th 2009
Guardian report quotes Lee Sigal about the likely contents of Bill Clinton’s three-hour-long discussion with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

June 2009

June 11th 2009
Lee Sigal testifies before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a strategy for dealing with North Korea.
June 8th 2009
Lee Sigal speaks to Martin Savidge of WorldFocus about North Korea’s harsh sentence for two detained U.S. journalists.

April 2009

April 7th 2009
Program director Lee Sigal talks about Japan’s antagonistic response to North Korea’s satellite launch on PBS “World Focus”
April 2nd 2009
Program director Lee Sigal argues in the Chicago Tribune that seeking UN Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang will fail.

February 2009

February 3rd 2009
Lee Sigal proposes a series of quid pro quos that the Obama administration should offer to North Korea.