Sep 3, 2013

The Chinese Perspective

By Scott Harold

Despite turbulence in its bilateral relations with Japan and South Korea over the past several years, China has expressed a continuing and growing interest in...

Sep 3, 2013

The South Korean Perspective

By Chang Jae Lee

During the early days of Northeast Asian economic cooperation immediately following the end of the Cold War, the China-Japan-Korea FTA (CJK FTA) was considered impossible,...

Sep 3, 2013

The Japanese Perspective

By T.J. Pempel

On November 20, 2012, at the Japan-China-ROK Economic and Trade Ministers’ Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia,1 Ministers Edano Yukio, Chen Deming, and Bark Tae Ho,...

Sep 3, 2013

The U.S. Perspective

By Claude Barfield

The proposed China-Japan-Korea (CJK) FTA, if it comes to fruition, will be a major economic accomplishment in its own right; but it will also constitute...

Sep 3, 2013

Competing Regional Interests and Reunification

By Dr. John Park

As with many complex situations, any effort to address the question of how competing regional interests would play out in response to Korean reunification begins...

Sep 3, 2013

South Korea’s Unification Policy and Prospects

By Ho-Yeol Yoo

The Park Geun-hye administration’s foreign policy/North Korean policy keyword is “trust,” which is intended to be the base on which to build a “New Korean...

Sep 3, 2013

Understanding Peaceful Reunification: Its Dynamics and Challenges

By Dr. Abraham Kim

The reunification of the Korean Peninsula has been an important aspiration of the Korean people on both sides of the 38th parallel for nearly six...

Jun 14, 2012

Political Change in 2010-2012 and Regional Cooperation Centered on the Korean Peninsula

By Chung Jae Ho, Gilbert Rozman, Jack Pritchard, Kazuhiko Togo, L. Gordon Flake

The year 2012 may be determinative in transforming the leadership that will decide the fate of the hexagonal maneuvering over the North Korean nuclear threat...

Jun 12, 2012

Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula

By Andrew Scobell, Narushige Michshita, Stephen Blank, Taeho Kim

North Korea poses the most serious security challenges for South Korea and Japan that they have faced in many decades as well as formidable challenges...

Jun 11, 2012

Sociological Processes and Regional Community Formation

By Gilbert Rozman, Leif-Eric Easley, Sharon Yoon

One of the requirements for an East Asian Community, the agreed objective of regionalism, is the formation of social networks that forge trust and a...

Jun 10, 2012

TPP or ASEAN+3: Alternative Plans for Asian Regionalism and Free Trade Pacts

By Edward J. Lincoln, Jeong Hyung-gon, Peter A. Petri

Korea is on the front line between two contrasting proposals for regionalism based on economic integration. On the one side is the Chinese effort to...

Jun 9, 2012

Leadership Changes and South Korea’s China Policy

By Chung Jae Ho

Changes in political leadership are often associated with readjustments or reversals of policy, the impact of which can be both wide-ranging in scope and long-lasting...