Once a year, North Korea’s often vitriolic rhetoric machine fires up with special intensity to attack those who attack its human rights record. The exchanges usually come toward the end of the year when the U.N. General Assembly approves what has...

Negotiations with the DPRK to reverse its nuclear weapon program changed character in 2008 with the bilateral US-DPRK channel overshadowing the 6-party forum. US negotiator, Christopher Hill, secured new freedom from President Bush to secure a positive...