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Publication

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

Podcasts

Singapore Summit: Ambassador Joe Yun on the Big Trump-Kim Meeting

With U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un headed to Singapore next week for the first ever U.S.-DPRK summit, people around the world are watching to…

June 6, 2018

The Art of the Deal? A Proposed Framework for the Trump-Kim Summit

With the Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore still on the calendar at least for the moment, pundits and analysts alike have been predicting the outcomes or sharing their advice for how…

May 16, 2018

A Conversation with Min Jin Lee, Author of the Acclaimed Novel Pachinko

Spanning nearly a century and multiple generations, Min Jin Lee's 2017 novel Pachinko tells the story of a Korean family struggling to find their place in Japan before, during, and after…

January 22, 2018

Exploring North Korea Through Art: A Conversation with Mina Cheon

A woman in hanbok joyfully rises above Mt. Baekdu, arms raised, in a art piece entitled Umma Rises: Towards Global Peace. This is just one of many recent art pieces…

January 11, 2018

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Recently, both South Korea and North Korea have been chosen to serve in leading positions in the United Nations at the Security Council and World Health Organization. The different roles and status of the two Koreas in the UN tells a great deal about the standing and the reputation of Seoul and Pyongyang in the…

Robert King

To Young North Korea Watchers

I’m currently completing a book on North Korea watchers - the community of scholars, analysts, government officers, NGO advocates and journalists who, for one reason or another, commit a portion of their lives to watching North Korea. After twenty-five years in government, academia and consultancy, with much of my time working on Korean Peninsula affairs,…

March 24, 2023

Jeffrey Robertson

UN Special Rapporteur Focuses on Women’s Rights in First Report to UN Human Rights Council

Elizabeth Salmón, the recently-appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, submitted her first report to the UN Human Rights Council on March 9. The report is set to be discussed on March 20 as part of the Council’s broad human rights agenda in Geneva from…

March 20, 2023

Robert King

10 Issues to Watch for on the Korean Peninsula in 2023

A video version of the 10 Issues to Watch for on the Korean Peninsula in 2023 with the blog's authors is available on KEI's YouTube channel. The most significant event to impact the Korean Peninsula in 2022 was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As in much of the world, the war had the effect of furthering…