Korea, North

With Election 2016 well underway, KEI's very own Phil Eskeland has been closely following how both the Republican and Democratic parties have been talking about foreign policy and Asia. He…

In the late 1930s, nearly 200,000 ethnic Koreans were forcibly removed from the Soviet Far East, packed into trains and sent to Central Asia. More than 70 years later, their…

With no shortage of North Korean news in 2016, we look back at one of our interviews with Ambassador John Everard of the UK. He provides an inside perspective of…

After North Korea launched its fourth nuclear test in January 2016, an outraged international community once again cracked down, passing tough sanctions both at the UN and domestic levels. While…

By Juni Kim During the State of the Union address on February 5, U.S. President Donald Trump formally announced that the second U.S.-North Korea summit would take place in Vietnam on February 27th and 28th. He remarked, “We continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula… Much work remains to be done, but…

By Phil Eskeland Last Friday, an appellate body with the World Trade Organization (WTO) authorized South Korea to levy $85 million in tariffs on U.S. products as compensation for the improper way the U.S. calculated higher import duties on Korean-made large residential washing machines. While the sanctioned indemnity is not as large as Korea initially…

By Haram Chung Critics have pointed to the Moon government’s income-led growth strategy, specifically the two-digit percentage increase in the minimum wage, as the source of the difficulties facing the country’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs). While the increase in minimum wage may have raised operational costs for small businesses, it is far from being…

By Sang Hyun Back Laws are intended to protect the rights of individuals and benefit the society, but South Korea’s defamation law falls short of these standards. According to Article 307 of South Korea’s Criminal Act, a person who publicly reveals facts that are damaging to another person is subject to punishment. Even if the…

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