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Publication

Russia and the Koreas: Past Policies and Future Possibilities

Geography alone would give Russia a prominent role in the Korean peninsula. The Russian Federation currently shares a recently demarcated 17-kilometer common border along the Tumen River with the Democratic…

February 25, 2010

Richard Weitz

Exchange Rate Arrangements of Transitional Economies and their Implications for the Two Koreas

The purpose of this research is to identify an exchange rate regime that would be suitable for North Korea to achieve its goal of economic reform. To do so, we…

January 25, 2010

Jin-Gil Jeong, Sandip Mukherji, Youngho Lee

Maintaining a Rogue Regime: Kim Jong-il and the North Korean Succession Process

In Northeast Asia and the United States during the later months of 2008 a great deal of attention was paid to the health of Kim Jong-il. Rumors of a stroke,…

July 29, 2009

Bruce Bechtol

Academic Science Engagement with North Korea

Science diplomacy refers to international scientiﬁ c cooperation aimed simultaneously at advancing scientiﬁ c knowledge and improving and strengthening broader relations between participating countries and groups. Science diplomacy has proved…

April 25, 2009

Hyunjin Seo, Stuart Thorson

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Podcasts

What Can North Korean Soap Operas Tell Us About Kim Jong-un’s Priorities?

A group of women gossiping about the new neighbor. A feisty middle schooler using a homemade drone to prank his classmates. A young military officer seeking information from his past.…

Topic: Human Rights

December 11, 2017

Healthcare in North Korea

As a communist state, North Korea has promised to provide its people with basic services, including healthcare and medical treatment. However, particularly in recent years, the cash-strapped Kim regime has…

October 30, 2017

North Korea’s “Guerrilla Internationalism”

With North Korea becoming an increasingly dangerous threat to the U.S. and its allies, it can be all too easy to overlook North Korea’s origins and how its foreign policy…

October 13, 2017

[Rebroadcast] How to Write About North Korea

Many of the news stories about North Korea that make their way into the Western media fall into one of two categories: 1) breaking news about provocations and the nuclear…

August 31, 2017

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Peninsula Blog

Comparing the Successions: Kim Jong Il vs. Kim Jong Un

By Luke Herman As the Kim Jong Un regime completes its eighth month in power following Kim Jong Il’s death in December 2011, there seem to be a number of differences between how this succession is being carried out with how it was carried out in 1994. For one thing, it has proceeded at a…

November 1, 2012

South Korea Public Opinion Poll - October 13-26

In the latest public opinion poll from the Asan Institute for Policy Studies Park Geun-hye and Ahn Cheul-soo remain in a neck and neck race. While in a two way race between Park and Moon Jae-in, Park has opened up a 5 point lead. In the race to determine who will represent the progressive side,…

October 30, 2012

North Korean Decision Making Regarding Foreign Policy

By Nick Miller Main Actors within North Korea Decision Making North Korea’s political structure is a set of institutions built to sustain the Kim family. The Korean Worker’s Party (WKP) and other state agencies were designed by Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il to be used to play rivals off one another and assist him in…

October 26, 2012

Will Korea Join the Space Race?

By Chad 0'Carroll This Friday South Korea will make a new attempt at launching a satellite using the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1). If it is successful, the ROK will become the eleventh country in the world to have developed a national capability to send objects into orbit. But after its two previous failures, this…