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The Hanoi summit can be a step forward—if both sides commit.

As the Japan-U.S. alliance weakens, could Tokyo drop its nuclear weapons ban?

On the podcast: The Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian recounts his grueling 18 months in an Iranian prison.

Withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty would take the United States one step forward and many steps back on international security.

Aid groups welcome the move, but it’s not likely to unlock stalled nuclear negotiations.

The United States is hampering some aid groups from fighting tuberculosis and other diseases in North Korea.

The only reason to pull out of the INF Treaty is to give a middle finger to the world.

Junk enough arms control treaties, and the Cold War balance of terror will reign once again—this time with China in the mix.

But a feud between Russia and the U.S. has kept the document from being published.

An open letter to Donald Trump's new North Korea envoy on how to avoid Armageddon.

Maximum financial pressure might be enough to force new nuclear talks.

Despite its defiant warnings, Tehran will eventually negotiate with Donald Trump—as long as Vladimir Putin mediates.

Negotiating with North Korea is a tricky game, and the United States is already behind.

On our podcast: As Trump sits down with Putin, we look back at a summit in Reykjavik that helped end the Cold War.

The president's pivot to "strategic impatience" has made an already difficult task substantially more so.

Trump in Singapore was spectacle. Pompeo in Pyongyang is the grim reality.

Koreans deserve the credit for peace on the peninsula, not Trump.

The big question for the world is whether the United States will now follow its old Iraq playbook, too.

How "Little Rocket Man" and the "deranged dotard" trod a path from insults to handshakes.

The United States has a moral responsibility and pragmatic imperative to keep rights violations on the table at the Singapore summit.