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2022 Report on American Attitudes Toward the Korean Peninsula

KEI’s 2022 Report on American Attitudes Toward the Korean Peninsula summarizes results from a survey commissioned by KEI and conducted by YouGov from September 1st to September 12th, 2022. The…

Defying United Nations Sanctions: Three Reasons for African Engagement with North Korea

The United Nations (UN) sanctions against North Korea are weakened by structural evasion techniques and weak enforcement. The African continent is a crucial node in the global illicit networks of…

June 15, 2022

Inter-Korean Reconciliation and the Role of the U.S.: Facilitator or Spoiler?

Although the Korean Peninsula has been divided for over 70 years, North and South have not been able to make lasting progress in terms of reconciliation. While there are multiple…

April 20, 2022

Will Artificial Intelligence Hone North Korea's Cyber “All-Purpose Sword”?

How is the increasing spread of artificial intelligence (AI) likely to shape the cyber capabilities of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK; North Korea) in the coming years? Over…

March 1, 2022

Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Scott Harold, Jenny Jun, Diana Myers

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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The China-Russia Security Council Resolution Part 1: Sanctions Relief

By Stephan Haggard and Liuya Zhang As 2020 gets underway, it is hard to avoid the obvious: diplomacy surrounding the Korean peninsula is stuck. The core question that divides the parties is—as it has long been—a tactical one. Are North Korea and the United States willing to trade incremental moves on the nuclear issue for…

January 28, 2020

Stephan Haggard

An Adversarial Media? Or Bad Public Policy?

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 President Moon Jae-in placed emphasis on stabilizing the…

January 24, 2020

Korea View

Are Parliamentary Procedures to Blame?

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 Last year, the National Assembly failed to pass several crucial…

January 16, 2020

Korea View

Lessons Learned: Kim Jong-un and the U.S.-Iran Confrontation

By Robert R. King In the last few days the United States and Iran faced off in their most recent and one of their most dangerous confrontations. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un was no doubt watching more intently and more anxiously than most other world leaders. It is hard to believe that Chairman Kim has…