Advancing East Asia’s Trade Agenda: A Korean Perspective
According to the WTO, in 2018 there are 459 regional trade agreements, the most in the institution’s recorded history.1 Countries are now more actively engaged…
North Korea’s Strategy in 2018
What does North Korea seek at a time of unprecedented sanctions and pressure against it and suddenly developing opportunity, as South Korea and four great…
North Korea’s Public Relations Strategy, 2018
Tension on the Korean Peninsula had reached a boiling point by the time Kim Jong-un delivered his New Year’s address—a tradition set by his grandfather…
North Korea’s Diplomatic Strategy, 2018
With an outbreak of diplomacy under way for the Korean Peninsula, a review of North Korea’s approach to negotiations is timely. A summit between North…
North Korea’s Economic Strategy, 2018
This chapter takes the perspective of North Korea’s leadership as it confronts difficult economic problems in the remaining months of 2018. The major current and…
North Korea’s Military Strategy, 2018
As the focus shifted from North Korea’s military advances in 2017 to its diplomatic offensive in 2018, we should not lose sight of the strategic…
Full Book | Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2017
Preface At the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), we take pride in fostering connections to advance United States-Republic of Korea ties. Through bringing together…
Intro | Establishing Triangular Talks Among Washington, Beijing, and Seoul
Of five alternative approaches to addressing the North Korean threat to stability in East Asia and beyond, this section is concerned with the possibility of…
A View from China on Triangular Relations
What will it take to jump start trilateral talks among Beijing, Seoul, and Washington over the situation on the Korean Peninsula, including the denuclearization of…
A View from South Korea on Sino-ROK Relations
Although we are only into the first months of the Trump administration, many Koreans recognize that the U.S.-led, market-oriented, liberal international order has been severely…