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Publication

East Asia at the Crossroads: A Comparative Study on Taiwan’s and Korea’s Reconciliation with Adversaries

Security and political issues over the Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula remain as flashpoints in East Asia since WWII. The authors argue that economic interdependence, together with negotiations and…

November 18, 2013

Yeh-chung Lu, Byung Kwang Park, Tung-chieh Tsai

South Korea’s Defense Industry: Increasing Domestic Capabilities and Global Opportunities

Since the end of the Korean War, the United States has been the largest supplier of defense systems to the Republic of Korea (ROK). The imperative of maintaining military interoperability…

November 11, 2013

Richard Weitz

Assessing Political Stability in Post-Kim Jong-il North Korea

December 4, 2012

Hyung-Gu Lynn

Korea's Economy 2012 - Full Edition PDF

In 2011, the Republic of Korea became one of only a handful of nations to pass the $1 threshold in total trade as Korean trade continued to expand an impressive…

November 30, 2012

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Podcasts

Going Back to The Source: Jeffrey Robertson

What if our understanding of North Korea is inadvertently colored by the very resources that we rely on to deepen our knowledge of the country? What does this say about our policies…

May 10, 2019

From Maximum Pressure to Maximum Leverage: Daniel Wertz

Even before the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, foreign policy practitioners and observers were talking about the difficulties of sequencing international sanctions relief for North Korea…

April 12, 2019

When North Korea Embraces Mobile Technology: Yonho Kim

We imagine North Korea as a country that is carrying on not only a conflict left over from the Cold War, but also a decrepit legacy economy from the past.…

March 29, 2019

[Rebroadcast] Achieving Peace through Sanctions: Stephan Haggard

The second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on February 27 and 28 ended without an agreement. The key difference in the two leaders’ negotiating…

Topic: Human Rights

March 8, 2019

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Peninsula Blog

The Lessons North Korea Will Likely Take from the U.S. Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal

By Troy Stangarone As President Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing the United States from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposing sanctions on Iran, in perhaps surreal fashion he also announced that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would be landing in North Korea in about an hour to discuss the final details for…

May 9, 2018

Troy Stangarone

American Citizens Detained in North Korea and their Potential Impact on U.S. Policy

By Robert R. King In a 8:30 AM tweet this morning, President Trump announced, “I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be…

May 9, 2018

Robert King

Evaluating the Panmunjom Declaration

By Taehwa Hong For a cold-hearted dictator who killed his half-brother and uncle, Kim Jong-un looked incredibly composed and suave. The 4.27 meeting between President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un was imbued with joy and relief. Despite North Korea’s record of walking back on every promise it made, there are good reasons to be optimistic…

May 8, 2018

Taehwa Hong

The KORUS FTA and the Creative Industries

By Kevin M. Rosenbaum Enhanced bilateral trade and investment under the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) has positively impacted the U.S. copyright industries—producers of literary works, music, movies and TV programming, and video games and software—in several ways. As an initial matter, it is important to understand the contribution of these vital industries to the…