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Preparing for Change in North Korea: Shifting Out of Neutral

This study was undertaken to assess possible futures for the North Korean regime and the Korean peninsula that could affect U.S. and regional interests, and to consider which U.S. and…

April 1, 2011

Similar Policies, Different Outcomes: Two Decades of Economic Reforms in North Korea and Cuba

This article is aimed at analyzing, in a comparative perspective, the economic reforms undertaken by Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) and Cuba since the demise of…

April 1, 2011

Buying into North Korea: Practices and Implications for Foreign Investment into the DPRK

With North Korea becoming increasingly politically isolated, there are few channels through which the international community can remain engaged. Despite the distaste most have for Pyongyang politics, more than 24…

November 25, 2010

Kevin Shepard

North Korea, Libya, and Iran: Economic Sanctions and Nuclear Proliferation

On 19 December 2003, the leader of Libya, Col. Muammar El-Qaddafi, shocked the world by abruptly stating that his country was renouncing its attempts to develop weapons of mass destruction…

September 25, 2010

Randall Newnham

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Podcasts

Prospects for “Vitalizing” NGO Work in North Korea

In the recent agreement between Seoul and Pyeongyang to defuse tensions along the DMZ, the two governments included a promise to "vitalize" non-governmental organization (NGO) exchanges in various fields. …

September 10, 2015

Seismology and Mt. Baekdu: Science Diplomacy in North Korea

Volcanologist Dr. Kayla Iacovino traveled to North Korea in 2013 as part of a team that was collaborating with North Korean scientists to study Mt. Baekdu, one of Korea's most…

September 3, 2015

Chinese PLA Media Commentaries on North Korea: Going Rogue or Staying on Script?

Within China, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a principle stakeholder in Beijing’s policy decision-making. In recent years, PLA officials have penned some of the more interesting, and forceful, articles…

Topic: Security

August 12, 2015

Making Sense of North Korea’s Re-Defector Press Conferences

Over the past few years, North Korea has been holding press conferences starring so-called re-defectors – people who fled to the South and chose to return. Researchers Steven Denney and…

July 31, 2015

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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…