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Publication

Full Book | Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2019

The experts in this volume have thoughtfully addressed themes that are pervasive throughout Asia and are timely for the U.S.-Korea alliance. Kim Jong-un’s turn to diplomacy in 2018 put the…

July 29, 2019

The China-Russia-North Korea Triangle After Kim Jong-un's Turn to Diplomacy

The triangle of Beijing-Moscow-Pyongyang has great significance for the geopolitics of not only Northeast Asia, but the globe. It played a critical role in the 1950 launching of the Korean…

July 29, 2019

North Korea’s Sharp Power and the Divide Over Korean Identities

This chapter examines the nature and motivations of North Korea’s sharp power toward South Korea. Unlike China or Russia, to secure long-term survival, North Korea ultimately needs cooperation from the…

July 29, 2019

Aram Hur

The North Korean Economy and U.S. Policy: Stability Under “Maximum Pressure”

North Korea has been under international sanctions for several years. It is only under U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure,” however, that China, North Korea’s most important trade…

July 29, 2019

Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

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Podcasts

When the Party Writes About Itself, It Writes With Purpose: Dr. Meredith Shaw

Despite all the attention around the upcoming second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, we in the United States still know very little about North Korea, its people, and…

February 22, 2019

2018 in Review from the Korea Economic Institute

2018 has been an incredibly eventful year for both the Koreas and the U.S.-Korea relationship: from North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics at the start of the year to…

December 21, 2018

Children are our future, our present: Dafna Zur

Interest in the Korean peninsula is generally very narrow in the United States – it tends to be focused on North Korea and security issues, particularly the country's ballistic and…

December 14, 2018

How Koreans Define Koreaness: Christopher Green and Steven Denney

What does a unified Korea look like? Beyond the question of whether the government of this new country will be a unitary or federal one, how will the people –…

Topic: Inter-Korean

November 30, 2018

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Peninsula Blog

South and North Korea Take Leadership Roles at the United Nations: Differences are Striking

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…