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 Thomas Lee With almost three months remaining before the 7th Korean Worker’s Party Plenum is scheduled to convene in May, South Korean intelligence sources state that North Korea appears to preparing for its fifth nuclear test. Although few if any signs of test preparations have been detected by satellite imagery, the recent experience with…