By Mark Tokola Historical analogies are fraught. Things never happen exactly the same way twice, and assuming they do can be misleading. Nevertheless, historical parallels can offer useful perspectives. For example, an advisor to South Korean President Moon Jae-in who recently visited Washington remarked that one element of President Moon’s philosophy for South Korea was…
September 12, 2017
By Troy Stangarone To test or not to test Trump? For North Korea the question has been more one of when and how to test rather than if to test President Donald Trump. Having largely refrained from taking provocative actions since the U.S. election, apart from Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s Day declaration that North Korea…
Please join KEI and Park Won-ho for a discussion on what South Korean politics look like at a sub-national level.