KEI Contributor – Mark Tokola

Ahead of the Summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, South Korea's Hankyoreh newspaper quoted KEI Vice President Mark Tokola in an article discussing the merits of partial…

KEI Vice President Mark Tokola spoke with Sky News moments after the White House announced that President Trump and Kim Jong-un will meet for the second time in late February. …

KEI VP Mark Tokola was quoted in a CNN story about North Korea’s overseas workers. Please click here to read the story.

On June 1, NTN 24 News, a Spanish-language TV station that broadcasts across Latin and North America, interviewed Vice President Mark Tokola about Kim Yong Chol's visit to Washington and…

Does the forty-fifth president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, have a foreign policy, not least of all inclusive of the vital Northeast Asian region? The question is not…

With an outbreak of diplomacy under way for the Korean Peninsula, a review of North Korea’s approach to negotiations is timely. A summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and…

For the proverbial visitor from Mars, the political situation in Northeast Asia is inexplicable. Sitting amidst a group of relatively stable, wealthy, and powerful countries, is a small, poor, belligerent…

Today’s relationship between the United States and China is more varied, complex, and cooperative than the accumulation of headlines would lead one to believe. The news media and commentators spotlight…

By Mark Tokola One thing everyone knows about North Korea is that it is isolated.  Visits to the DPRK are controlled and monitored.  Few North Koreans are allowed to travel abroad and then only for specific purposes.  Because it is heavily sanctioned by the international community, international trade and investment is minimal.  North Koreans are…