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KEI Senior Director Troy Stangarone: Take Trump Impeachment Inquiry Seriously
November 5
KEI Senior Director Troy Stangarone cautions observers not to dismiss the most recent scandal related to the Ukraine as just another scandal. He observes: “In a much more partisan era dominated by a fragmented media it is unclear that either previous impeachment will indicate how the…
Read MoreKEI Senior Director Troy Stangarone on U.S. Impeachment Inquiry and the Koreas
November 5
Writing for the Diplomat Magazine, KEI Senior Director and Fellow Troy Stangarone asks how the impeachment inquiry might affect the Trump administration's ability to navigate negotiations with North Korea. He looks to precedent set by the Nixon and Clinton administrations for answers. He finds that…
Read MoreNews Coverage of KEI Event on the Korea-Japan Trade Dispute
November 5
Arirang News and Business Korea covered an event hosted at KEI on October 16 titled "The Effect of Korea-Japan Relations on Trade and the Global Economic Order." You can find the video of the event here. The article from Arirang quoted Marcus Noland, a panelist…
Read MoreKEI Senior Director Stangarone: North Korea needs to negotiate with US
November 5
Writing for the Korea Times, KEI Senior Director and Fellow Troy Stangarone observes that Pyongyang looks increasingly uninterested in the type of negotiations that might lead to an agreement. He cautions that while playing hardball is North Korea's traditional negotiating tactic, it's not conducive to reaching a…
Read MoreKEI Senior Director Troy Stangarone Reviews Seoul's "Three Noes"
November 5
When Beijing and Seoul agreed to resume normal economic ties in 2017 after a fractious dispute over the deployment of U.S. missile defense batteries in South Korea, there were rumblings in some corners of the policymaking community that the Moon administration was drifting from the U.S. alliance.…
Read MoreKEI Senior Director Troy Stangarone on North Korea's Looming Demographic Crisis
November 5
KEI Senior Director and Fellow Troy Stangarone was quoted in an article about North Korea's declining population published on Mercator Net. The article notes that while North Korea enjoys higher population growth than its southern counterpart, it too is facing a demographic shift. Stangarone adds,…
Read MoreKEI Senior Director Stangarone on Korea's Need to Accelerate Innovation
September 19
In an interview with the Korea Times, KEI Senior Director Troy Stangarone noted that Korea must learn from Japan's economic slump in the 2000s. He observed that Japan did not force insolvent commercial firms to close, lessening productivity. In response, he recommended that Korea encourage…
Read MorePBS News Cites KEI Vice President on Korea-Japan Tensions
September 19
KEI Vice President Mark Tokola was cited in a recent PBS article on the growing friction between South Korea and Japan – he expressed hope that the United States was quietly stepping in to relay to South Korean counterparts that leaving GSOMIA is not the…
Read MoreSouth Korean leader's Liberation Day speech offered hopeful vision
September 19
Writing for the Nikkei, KEI Vice President Mark Tokola highlighted how President Moon Jae-in defied expectations in his speech commemorating Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945 by offering a vision of a more integrated East Asia in which Japan and North Korea both play key…
Read MoreKorea Times Interviews Troy Stangarone on U.S.-China Feud
September 19
In an interview with Korea Times, KEI Senior Director Troy Stangarone urged Korea to foster entrepreneurship to maximize software power. He noted that natural slowdown combined with the U.S.-China trade war will adversely impact China's capacity to continue consuming Korean goods. As such, Korean exporters…
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