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Publication

Part V - Prospects for North Korean Economic Reform

Contents of this Section The Sunshine Policy is Not, and was Not, a Failed Policy Moon Chung-in – Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University The Current…

November 30, 2012

The Current State of the North Korean Economy

November 30, 2012

Keys to the Kimdom: North Korea's Economic Heritage and Prospects after Kim Jong-il's Death

What is North Korea? A threat. A headache. A problem. But not so often an economy. The DPRK is much discussed and fretted over, yet our attention tends to be…

November 13, 2012

Chinese Perspectives on North Korea and Korean Unification

China’s political attitudes toward the Korean peninsula and its role in managing North Korea have been a constant source of intrigue for many Asia watchers in the U.S. Trying to…

July 6, 2012

Podcasts

When Cold Warriors Sued for Peace: Mark Tokola

Looking back on the Korean War, one might assume that the outbreak of a violent conflict that killed millions of people would preclude the possibility of a peaceful resolution of…

July 10, 2020

Lasting Legacies of An Unfinished War: James Person and William Stueck

It would not be an exaggeration to claim that the Korean War shaped world history. There had been bloodshed elsewhere that bookmarked the start of the bitter conflict between the…

July 3, 2020

The Miracle at Hungnam: Ned Forney

The international force that answered the United Nation’s call to defend the Republic of Korea between 1950 and 1953 did more than engage in combat with North Korean and Chinese…

June 26, 2020

A Division No One Planned or Wanted: Charles Kraus

June 25, 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The conflict on the Korean Peninsula has been going on for so long that we sometimes…

June 19, 2020

For North Korea to return to some semblance of its pre-COVID existence it will need to vaccinate its population, but acquiring the necessary vaccines will not be the only challenge North Korea faces. Once North Korea has acquired a vaccine to begin dosing its population, it will still need to have a proper cold chain…

January 27, 2021

Troy Stangarone

The Outlook for Inter-Korean Relations after North Korea’s 8th Party Congress

A three-hour military parade and a fireworks display in Pyongyang on January 14 punctuated the end of the 8th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea. The 8th Congress, which lasted eight days, was the first such high party gathering since 2016 and only the second since the 6th Congress was held in 1980. Such…

January 19, 2021

Robert King

The Biden Administration and the U.S.-ROK Alliance

Joseph Biden will be inaugurated on Wednesday, 20 January, bringing the Trump era to an end. Under the 45th president, American alliances faced significant stress from his skepticism of multilateralism and preference for transactional agreements. The U.S.-ROK alliance was no different, with friction arising between Seoul and Washington from time to time. As the Biden…

Terrence Matsuo

Vision Group Looks to U.S.-ROK Relations in a Changing World

On January 11, the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) published a report on the future of the U.S.-Korea relationship with recommendations from leading American scholars and policy practitioners. The report comes from six "Vision Group" roundtable conversations that KEI hosted between December 2019 and November 2020 with the support of the Korea Foundation. During these meetings,…