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K-Pop on the Radio: The Korean Wave in the United States

With the exception of Gangnam Style, few mainstream radio stations have ever even thought to play Korean pop music. But in the last year or so, the United States has…

April 17, 2018

How do South Koreans View Donald Trump?

With President Donald Trump finishing up his first official trip to Asia, including a stop in South Korea last week, this week's episode of Korean Kontext asks: what do South…

November 13, 2017

The Chinese Perspective on THAAD

Ever since last summer, when South Korea and the United States announced they would be deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to the peninsula, China…

March 17, 2017

U.S. Forces Korea: The Big Move to Camp Humphreys

In 2017, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) will complete the move of nearly all troops and support staff from Yongsan Garrison in Seoul to Camp Humphreys, 50 miles south of the…

January 13, 2017

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Korea-U.S. Economic Relationship with or without an FTA: KORUS FTA as a Better Alternative to Manage the Bilateral Economic Relationship

On 1 April 2007 Korea and the United States finally completed their year-long negotiations to conclude the Korea- U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA), which was then signed by the…

May 25, 2011

Preparing for Future Threats and Regional Challenges: The ROK-U.S. Military Alliance in 2008-09

President Lee Myung-bak won a landslide victory in 2007. His popularity before the election was obvious, and it came as a surprise to almost no one that he won by…

May 25, 2011

Lessons from the North Korean Nuclear Issue

The world can only hope the recent U.S.-North Korean bilateral discussions will revive the six-power talks and lead to Pyongyang’s renunciation of its nuclear weapons ambitions. Hope, however, is not…

May 25, 2011

Gregory F. Treverton

Issues In U.S.-ROK Economic Relations

This paper builds on Kiyota and Stern (2007), in which we analyzed the economic effects of a U.S.-Korea free trade agreement (KORUSFTA). In Section II, we review the objectives and…

May 25, 2011

Robert M. Stern, Kozo Kiyota

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Peninsula Blog

Another Way of Dealing with North Korea: Negotiation Without Engagement

By Mark Tokola Winston Churchill said, “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” He was reported to have said this at a White House luncheon in 1954, so he by then had plenty of experience with both war and negotiation. This sentiment, or something like it, is what people have in mind when they urge engagement…

January 6, 2017

Mark Tokola

10 Issues to Watch for on the Korean Peninsula in 2017

By Mark Tokola, Phil Eskeland, Troy Stangarone, Jenna Gibson, Kyle Ferrier, and Juni Kim The Korean peninsula was dominated by unexpected events in 2016. North Korea began the year with a nuclear test that merely foreshadowed a year of significant advancements in its nuclear program rather than its traditional pattern of using tests to provoke…

January 5, 2017

Juni Kim

New Year’s 2017 in Pyongyang: Self-Reliance by Necessity or Design?

“Previously, all the people used to sing the song We Are the Happiest in the World, feeling optimistic about the future with confidence in the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. I will work with devotion to ensure that the past era does not remain as a moment in history but is re-presented in the…

January 4, 2017

William Brown

The Year of the Unexpected: A Look Back At the Korean Peninsula in 2016

By Troy Stangarone In the Chinese zodiac, 2016 is the year of the Fire Monkey. Fire Monkeys are said to be ambitious and adventurous, as well as irritable. Despite Donald Trump’s not having been born in the year of the Monkey, looking back, his victory in the U.S. presidential election that year may yet seem…