Six-Party Talks stall, despite a U.S. policy shift involving the release of frozen North Korean funds from a bank in Macao.

A second round of UN sanctions is expected against Iran, including a possible arms embargo. Yet experts disagree whether more sanctions will make Tehran buckle.

Two nonproliferation experts evaluate the recent deal with North Korea's nuclear program.

Don Oberdorfer, a leading Korea expert, says “important progress” has been made toward normalization of U.S.-North Korea relations.

Efforts to normalize U.S.-North Korea relations are underway as questions surround 2002 intelligence on Pyongyang’s uranium enrichment program.

An IAEA report affirms Iran is defying another nuclear deadline set by the Security Council but it is unclear what punitive measures will follow.

This report from the Institute for Science and International Security examines North Korea's plutonium production activity and provides an assessment of its current stocks of separated plutonium.

CFR's Gary Samore says the accord reached at the Six-Party Talks in Beijing was "a wise compromise" for the Bush administration.

An interactive, multimedia guide to the dispute between North and South Korea.

Officials at the Six-Party Talks in Beijing announced a tentative deal to curb North Korea’s nuclear program. But experts warn the history of such "breakthroughs" warrants caution.

Washington recently sat down for talks with Pyongyang in Berlin and Six-Party Talks are set to resume in early February.

Pyongyang agreed to rejoin Six-Party Talks on its nuclear program a year after walking away from negotiations. But the meetings, which resumed in Beijing this week, hold little hope of stopping a now-nuclear North Korea.

Adam Segal, a leading expert on Asian military and technological issues, holds “extremely low” expectations for the latest round of Six-Party Talks over North Korea’s nuclear program.

China, whose relations with North Korea have grown strained in recent weeks, is putting pressure on Pyongyang to return to the Six-Party Talks.

The Security Council resolution that ended the monthlong war with Israel called for the disarmament of Hezbollah. But new reports suggest the group continues to smuggle in weapons from Syria, which, if true, could threaten the delicate peace in the region.

A second arms control report from Oxfam, focusing on the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the most widespread military weapon in the world, with an estimated 50-70 million spread across the world’s five continents. They are used daily by soldiers, fighters, and gang members to inflict untold suffering in many countries. The spread of these weapons continues largely unchecked by governments, threatening the lives and safety of millions as weapons fall into irresponsible hands. More than ever, the Kalashnikov rifle is the weapon of choice for many armies, militias, armed gangs, law enforcement officials, rebels, and other private actors who abuse fundamental human rights and operate beyond the international humanitarian law parameters laid down by the Geneva Conventions and other relevant international law. Oxfam argues that following the UN Review Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in mid-2006, governments should agree at the UN General Assembly in October 2006 to negotiate a new global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to regulate international transfers of all conventional arms, including military assault rifles.