Moon Takes on the Housing Market
The Moon administration looks to tackle a social issue that has eluded previous governments.
Seoul Looks for a Tune that Resonates with Trump on Burden-Sharing
Finding a tune that resonates with Trump on burden-sharing may be more difficult than South Korea assumes.
Korea’s Economic Growth Prospects Under the Income-led Strategy
Korea is pursuing a bold strategy in an effort to achieve a paradigm shift that results in a fair economy. Some of its major initiatives…
Full Book | Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2019
The experts in this volume have thoughtfully addressed themes that are pervasive throughout Asia and are timely for the U.S.-Korea alliance. Kim Jong-un’s turn to…
The China-Russia-North Korea Triangle After Kim Jong-un’s Turn to Diplomacy
The triangle of Beijing-Moscow-Pyongyang has great significance for the geopolitics of not only Northeast Asia, but the globe. It played a critical role in the…
Sino-Russian Relations, South Korea, and North Korea
This examination of the relations among these four governments assesses the ever-closer China-Russia relationship featuring stronger strategic alignment against the United States and its interests…
The North Korean Factor in the Sino-Russian Alliance
The Kim-Putin summit in April 2019 and the abortive Trump-Kim summit in February 2019 compel us to review Korean issues from the regional security standpoint,…
Sino-Russian Relations and Security Ties to North Korea
During the period leading up to the turn toward diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula that began in 2018, China and Russia achieved close cooperation in…
Japan’s Strategy to Keep the North Koreans and Chinese Down, the Americans in, and the Russians Neutral
The Japanese government makes no secret of its intensifying security concerns. The Ministry of Defense’s most recent annual white paper includes the assessment that, “The…
Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and Korean Strategies for Northeast Asian Cross-Border Energy Connectivity
In 2018, research was underway in Northeast Asia on several trilateral and multilateral initiatives for cross-border infrastructure connectivity involving China, Russia, both Koreas, and Japan….