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Russia and the Koreas: Past Policies and Future Possibilities

Geography alone would give Russia a prominent role in the Korean peninsula. The Russian Federation currently shares a recently demarcated 17-kilometer common border along the Tumen River with the Democratic…

February 25, 2010

Richard Weitz

Exchange Rate Arrangements of Transitional Economies and their Implications for the Two Koreas

The purpose of this research is to identify an exchange rate regime that would be suitable for North Korea to achieve its goal of economic reform. To do so, we…

January 25, 2010

Jin-Gil Jeong, Sandip Mukherji, Youngho Lee

Maintaining a Rogue Regime: Kim Jong-il and the North Korean Succession Process

In Northeast Asia and the United States during the later months of 2008 a great deal of attention was paid to the health of Kim Jong-il. Rumors of a stroke,…

July 29, 2009

Bruce Bechtol

Academic Science Engagement with North Korea

Science diplomacy refers to international scientiﬁ c cooperation aimed simultaneously at advancing scientiﬁ c knowledge and improving and strengthening broader relations between participating countries and groups. Science diplomacy has proved…

April 25, 2009

Hyunjin Seo, Stuart Thorson

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Podcasts

Myanmar Between the Two Koreas

Over the last 50 years, Myanmar has oscillated between periods of friendship with South Korea and partnership with North Korea. As Myanmar opens to the international community, however, investment and…

June 3, 2016

Reform or Status Quo? An Analysis of North Korea’s Party Congress

Last week, North Korea launched its Seventh Worker's Party Congress, a major meeting of regime leaders that has not been convened in 36 years. Although analysts had high expectations for…

May 10, 2016

A Russian Perspective on Northeast Asia

In this episode, we take a step back from the Korean Peninsula and take a look at Northeast Asia from the perspective of one of its neighbors – Russia. In…

May 9, 2016

A Look at the North Korean Economy with Dr. Stephan Haggard

This week our guest is noted scholar and North Korea watcher Dr. Stephan Haggard. Dr. Haggard is a Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies and director of the Korea-Pacific Program at the…

April 8, 2016

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Peninsula Blog

South Korea’s Unsupervised Children

This briefing comes from Korea View, a weekly newsletter published by the Korea Economic Institute. Korea View aims to cover developments that reveal trends on the Korean Peninsula but receive little attention in the United States. If you would like to sign up, please find the online form here. What Happened On March 4, three children died in a house fire.…

March 13, 2020

Korea View

How China and Japan View South Korea

By Mark Tokola Genron NPO, a Japanese non-profit organization, released the results of an opinion survey in October 2019 that focusses on Japanese and Chinese perspectives of one another, but which also includes some nuggets about how the two countries perceive South Korea. The survey was conducted by the Public Opinion Research Center in Japan…

March 12, 2020

Mark Tokola

Software Education Contributes to Government’s Response to Coronavirus

This briefing comes from Korea View, a weekly newsletter published by the Korea Economic Institute. Korea View aims to cover developments that reveal trends on the Korean Peninsula but receive little attention in the United States. If you would like to sign up, please find the online form here. What Happened Private citizens are building websites and applications to share information…