Korean Kontext

The pandemic has been going on for so long that international affairs observers nearly forgot that two of America’s closest allies in one of the…

While the rest of the world is still struggling to contain the outbreak of COVID-19, South Korea – progressing steadily in its containment of the…

Even in some fantastical scenario where Kim Jong-un suddenly decides to give up nuclear weapons and end his regime’s flagrant disregard for human rights, the…

International observers were shocked when President Trump met with North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in June 2018. But amid the spectacle of these two…

After weeks of keeping the international community spellbound with his sudden disappearance and rumors of his death, Kim Jong-un has reemerged in public. But this…

Where in the world is Kim Jong-un? The dictator of North Korea who appears so fond of being filmed and photographed has disappeared from sight…

On April 7, the American state of Wisconsin held an election to decide who would be the Democratic Party’s nominee for the US presidential election…

Few alliances in the world are as storied and robust as the U.S.-Korea alliance. Building on the security relationship established at the end of the…