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President Park Geun-hye’s Unification Vision and Policy

Achieving unification has been one of the most important national goals of all South Korean presidents. President Park is no exception, and clarifies that building a foundation for national unification…

March 4, 2016

Jo Dongho

Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2015

This is the full PDF of the 2015 edition of Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies. Please click here to download the individual chapters included in this publication. At the Korea Economic…

February 29, 2016

Defense Cooperation Among Japan, the United States, and the ROK: Dealing with the DPRK

This chapter is about how Japan prepares to respond to provocations from North Korea. As background factors, we need to consider how Japan is altering its security policy, how it…

February 29, 2016

Ohara Bonji

Reinforcing Deterrence: The U.S. Military Response to North Korean Provocations

When speaking to a Korean audience, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) invariably inserts the Korean phrase katchi kapshida ( 같이 갑시다), “we go together,” at some point in…

February 29, 2016

Terence Roehrig

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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…

Topic: Inter-Korean

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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Peninsula Blog

Moon Takes on the Housing Market

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 The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport confirmed plans to…

August 14, 2019

Korea View

State Department Report finds North Korea Policies Encourage Human Trafficking

By Robert R. King On June 20, 2019, the U.S. Department of State released the 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report. There is a certain irony that at a time when the President of the United States is trading love letters with Kim Jong-un and barely even mentioning human rights issues in their summit conversations, the…

July 24, 2019

Robert King

Reflecting on Face-to-Face Diplomacy with Kim Jong-un

By Olga Krasnyak What do summits mean? Summit or face-to-face diplomacy with Kim Jong-un was a feature and a shift in Northeast Asian politics in 2018. This trend has continued in 2019 with a recent brief interpersonal encounter with President Donald Trump at DMZ on June 30th. While there is often a certain portion of…

July 11, 2019

External Pressure Drives Korea’s Labor Reforms

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 The European Union (EU) formally requested the South…