As the Obama administration establishes its foreign policy, it must grapple with a strategy for U.S. relations with Iran, which has continued a controversial nuclear program and launched a satellite into orbit this week.

NPR: Rethinking Iran: Perceptions On U.S.-Iran Relations

The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies has analyzed recent commercial satellite imagery of the Nyongbyon nuclear facility, where the reactor was shut down in 2007 under the terms of a disarmament agreement.

NPR: SKorea: North Korea Moved Missile To East Coast

There is no indication of resumed nuclear activities in those buildings that were identified through the use of satellite imagery as being reconstructed or newly erected since 1998, nor any indication of nuclear-related prohibited activities at any inspected sites.

BBC: Full text: ElBaradei briefing

It's not far-fetched to think that hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel a year and hundreds of lives could be saved by miniature, impregnable nuclear reactors that could be remote-detonated by satellite if they ever fell into enemy hands.

FORBES: Logistics

But China's Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu told the same briefing that the issue of North Korea and its satellite launch wouldn't be on the agenda at the global nuclear-security summit in Seoul next week.

WSJ: China Seeks Peacemaker Role on North Korea